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EZRA POUND

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EZRA POUND

<b>530. EZRA POUND</b>
<hr align=left size=5 width=33% color=#778899>(1883-1972). American avant-garde poet, critic and writer who greatly influenced literature from the ’20s through the ’50s. A member of the American expatriate literary circle, he moved to Paris in 1920 where he forced Joyce’s controversial <i>Ulysses</i> into print. Among his best-known works are <i>The Cantos</i> (1925). ALS, 2¼pp, small 8vo, Kensington, n.d. Docketed as received Nov 16, 1916. On his embossed “5 Holland Place Chambers” stationery to Madame Ellen [?]. Pound writes, “<i>Miss Barney in a post script asks me to phone you hoping you received some ??? some some thing or other? reviews / viveurs ?—also that you go to see Baronne de Brimont...Lancaster Gate Hyde Park W. [God send it be not a calligraphic error for Bremont]. at any rate your butler seemed to think you were out of London forever so I write instead of phoning.</i>..” Boldly penned and signed. Lightly soiled; tiny rust stain at staple puncture at top right corner of second page; else VG.

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