The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn, 1915-1924.
Durham:: Duke University Press, 1991. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. This volume provides a first-hand survey of the arts and literature during a crucial period in modern culture, 1915û1924. Pound was then associated with such germinal magazines as BLAST, The Little Review, The Egoist, and Poetry; he was discovering or publicizing writers such as Robert Frost, Hilda Doolittle, T. S. Eliot, and James Joyce; and he was championing the painters Wyndham Lewis and William Wadsworth as well as the sculptors Jacob Epstein, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, and Constantin Brancusi. Pound wrote to John Quinnùa New York lawyer, an expert in business law, and a collector of unusual taste and discriminationùabout these artists and many more, urging him to support their journals, collect their manuscripts, and buy and exhibit their paintings and sculptures. Quinn at one time owned manuscripts of Ulysses and The Waste Land, BrancusiÆs sculpture Mlle. Pogany, and PicassoÆs painting Three Musicians. Yet he was often skeptical about the value of new schools of art, such as Vorticism, and disturbed by the outspokenness of authors such as Joyce. PoundÆs letters are unusually tactful when he counters QuinnÆs doubts and explains the premises of experimental art. PoundÆs letters to Quinn are touched with his characteristic humor and wordplay and are especially notable for their lucidity of expression, engendered by PoundÆs deep respect for Quinn. It was Ezra Pound who urged him to buy the art, sculpture and ultimately the manuscripts of the moderns including Joyce's Ulysses and Eliot's The Waste Land. Item #24498
ISBN: 0822311321
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