Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1885-10-30 - 1972-11-01
Ezra Pound (1885-1972), expatriate American poet and critic.
Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:
Donald Clifford Gallup papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 838
Overview:
Correspondence, writings, research files, personal papers, photographs, printed material and other papers documenting both the professional and personal activities of Donald Gallup as scholarly bibliographer, editor, curator of the Yale Collection of American Literature, and book and manuscript collector on his own account. The majority of the collection consists of Gallup's own papers, including personal, professional and editorial correspondence; a small amount of personal papers; research...
Dates:
1754-2000, bulk 1920-1995
Lawrence Gilman papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 407
Overview:
The papers consist of letters to Lawrence Gilman from various writers, poets, editors, and musicians, including Winifred Welles, Carl Van Vechten, Winston Churchill, John Farrar, Otto Klemperer, Marian MacDowell, H. L. Mencken, Ezra Pound, Bruno Walter, John Butler Yeats, and William Butler Yeats. A small amount of letters are from Gilman family members and an unidentified correspondent. Other papers include a draft of Gilman's "Bach the Great Modern," two notebooks, and clippings.
Dates:
1886-1971, bulk 1913-1939
Hermann Hagedorn papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 391
Overview:
Collection contains correspondence, writings, clippings, and other materials documenting the life of author Hermann Hagedorn. Correspondence in the collection consists of letters to and from family, friends, other writers, publishers, scholars, and well-known political and cultural figures from the first half of the twentieth century. Noteworthy correspondents include Stephen Vincent Benét, Albert Einstein, Robert Frost, Percy MacKaye, Ezra Pound, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and Albert...
Dates:
1898-1970
H. D. Papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 24
Overview:
The papers document the personal life and literary career of H. D. Major correspondents include Richard Aldington, Bryher, Helen Wolle Doolittle, Robert McAlmon, Brigit Patmore, Norman Holmes Pearson, George Plank, and Ezra Pound. There are manuscripts of many of her works, including Her (1927), The Walls Do Not Fall (1944), Helen in Egypt (1961), and her memoir End to Torment (1958). The collection also contains personal papers, subject files, and photographs, including items related to the...
Dates:
1887-1977
Hound & Horn records
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 458
Overview:
The Hound & Horn records contain correspondence, drafts of writings, financial records, and ephemera relating to the literary quarterly. The records feature original letters from well-known Modernist era authors during the tenure of the journal from the late 1920s through mid 1930s, including Bryher, Jean Cocteau, E. E. Cummings, René Daumal, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, François Mauriac, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Stephen Spender, Gertrude Stein, Robert Penn Warren, William Carlos...
Dates:
1925-1940
Eugène and Maria Jolas papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 108
Overview:
The Eugène and Maria Jolas Papers consist of manuscripts, letters, photographs, and printed materials relating to the work and lives of the two authors, to their publication, Transition magazine, and to their friend, James Joyce. The first subgroup, the papers of Eugène Jolas, contains his correspondence with such persons as Kay Boyle, Raoul Hausmann, Raymond Queneau, and Jean Wahl, writings (articles, columns, drafts of an autobiography, and hundreds of poems in Enlgish, German, French,...
Dates:
1879-1986
Viola Baxter Jordan papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 175
Overview:
The collection contains letters to Jordan from Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, H.D. and Bryher, as well as manuscripts of poems by Pound and Williams and a small quantity of personal papers. Subjects of the Pound letters include personal and family news; his writing and the literary world in general; his political and economic opinions; and his confinement at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Letters from Williams discuss relationships between men and women; poetry; and arrangements for social...
Dates:
1905-1951
Letter : 5, Holland Place Chambers, Kensington, W., to Babette Deutsch, 310 West 94th Street, New York, 1919 December 11
Part of Collection — Box: 98, Folder: 29
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Dates:
1919 December 11
Letter : 5, Holland Place Chambers, Kensington. W., to Ellen [Thayer], 1916 Nov 16
Part of Collection — Box: 30, Folder: GROUP 511, F-8
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS written on behalf of a "Miss Barney" and mentioning the Baronne de Brimont.
Dates:
1916 Nov 16
Letter : 5, Holland Place Chambers, Kensington, W., to Orrick Johns, 1915 March 21
Part of Collection — Box: 98, Folder: 28
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Dates:
1915 March 21
Letter : 5, Holland Place Chambers, Kensington, W. to Orrick Johns, undated
Part of Collection — Box: 110, Folder: 21
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Typescript letter, signed, with autograph manuscript corrections and postscript, regarding the writings of Sadakichi Hartmann.
Dates:
undated
Letter : 5, Holland Place Chambers, Kensington. W., to W. R. Garnett, 36 John Street, Bedford Row, W.C., 1918, undated
Part of Collection — Box: 110, Folder: 24
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Typescript letter, signed, from Pound to Garnett saying that he now exclusively writes letters and poems with a typewriter. Pound also says that he has enclosed typescript copies of two poems that were printed in his book Lustra; and tells Garnett where he can purchase editions of specific books. Includes a typescript copy, with manuscript corrections in Pound's hand, of Rosoriu’s poem “Old Idea of Choan”, which was translated into English by Pound. With envelope.
Dates:
1918, undated
Letter : Il Mare, Rapallo, Italy, to Francis Picabia, undated
Part of Collection — Box: 102, Folder: 37
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Typescript letter, signed, telling Picabia that he needs to have a room at the Venice Biennale.
Dates:
undated
Letter : Notre Dame des Champs, Paris, to Mr. Thring, undated
Part of Collection — Box: 104, Folder: 12
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Typescript letter regarding a legal matter and payments owed.
Dates:
undated
Letter : Rapallo, to Jay B[radley], [1939] August 1
Part of Collection — Box: 30, Folder: GROUP 511, F-9
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
TLS, on Pound's pictorial letterhead, with numerous annotations, explaining his requirements for organizing a literary page.
Dates:
[1939] August 1
Letter : Rapallo, to Llewellyn Jones, 1925 November 15
Part of Collection — Box: 102, Folder: 36
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Typescript letter, signed, from Pound discussing his work being published in London.
Dates:
1925 November 15
Letter : Rapallo, to René Taupin, Presses Universitaires de France, 49 Boulevard St. Michel, Paris, France, 1932 Nov 25
Part of Collection — Box: 30, Folder: GROUP 511, F-13
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
One TLS on personal letterhead, with autograph manuscript correction, concerning various literary matters. With envelope.
Dates:
1932 Nov 25
Letter : Rapallo, Via Marsala, 12 Int. 5, to D. R. Young, [1927 Jan]
Part of Collection — Box: 30, Folder: GROUP 511, F-3
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
TLS, signed with initials, regarding payment for his new magazine The Exile, mentioning [John] Rodker, "Marianne," [D. H.?] Lawrence, Mr. Collins, and a good poem he has found for No. 2., "not by Eliot or myself."
Dates:
[1927 Jan]
Letter : Rapallo, Via Marsala, 12 Int. 5, to [D. R.] Young, 1927 Jan 21
Part of Collection — Box: 30, Folder: GROUP 511, F-4
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
TLS, signed with initials, regarding publicity for The Exile, mentioning John Rodker and J. M. Price, his American agent.
Dates:
1927 Jan 21
Letter : Österreichischer Hof, Rotenthurmstrasse, Wien, to [René Taupin], undated
Part of Collection — Box: 30, Folder: GROUP 511, F-15
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Long autograph letter in French, corrected and initialedsigned, discussing literary matters. Pages are numbered 1 and 3-17, with no page 2.
Dates:
undated