Ezra Pound collection
| Record No. | SC096 |
| Main Entry | Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 |
| Title | Ezra Pound collection |
| Dates | 1908-1961 |
| Physical Description | 17 cm of textual records. |
| Bio/Admin History | Ezra Loomis Pound was a major twentieth century poet, critic and translator. He was born in Idaho and educated at the University of Pennsylvania. He went to England in 1908, living in London from 1908 to 1920 and became closely acquainted with T.S. Eliot and other intellectuals. In 1920, he left London and settled in Rome. He supported the fascist cause in Italy during World War II. Because of this, he was indicted for treason by the Americans. He was, however, found unfit to plead, and was confined to a mental institution until 1958. In his work, Pound championed the imagist and vorticist movements. His most important works include "Homage to Sextus Propertius", "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley", and the epic "Cantos". The University of Victoria Libraries Special Collections has a mandate to acquire literary papers. |
| Scope and Content | The collection consists firstly, of poetry manuscripts and proofs including "Personae", "Lustra", and "Canzoni and Ripostes"; secondly, a prose manuscript of "That Audience, or the Bugaboo of the Public"; and thirdly, of correspondence to Elkin Mathews (publisher), St. John Adcock, Harry and Caresse Crosby (Black Sun Press), Louis Zukofsky, The British Union of Fascists, T.S. Eliot, Montgomery Belgion, Michael Harald, Clifford Gessler, and others. |
| Title Source | Title based on the contents of the collection. |
| Finding Aids | Item level descriptions available. |
| Online Finding Aids | Inventory to the Ezra Pound Collection (PDF, 87 kB) |
| Restrictions | |
| Notes | Pound's correspondence with Else Seel is included in the Else Seel fonds. There is Belgion correspondence also in the T.S. Eliot collection. |
| Provenance | University of Victoria (B.C.). Libraries. Special Collections, collector |
| Repository | University of Victoria Libraries Special Collections |
| Subject Headings | Adcock, Arthur St. John, 1864-1930 American literature--20th century American poetry--20th century Authors, American--Correspondence Belgion, Montgomery, 1892-1973 Black Sun Press British Union of Fascists Crosby, Caresse, 1892-1970 Crosby, Harry, 1898-1929 E. Mathews (Firm) Elkin Mathews & Marrot Gessler, Clifford, 1893-1979 Harald, Michael Mathews, Elkin, 1851-1921 Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 Seel, Else, 1894-1974 Zukofsky, Louis, 1904-1978 |
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