Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear: Their Letters, 1909-1914

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October 4, 2013

 

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The key to opening all of these doors was William Butler Yeats, and the key to Yeats was Olivia Shakespear. Within a year of arriving in London, Pound found his way to her literary salon, where he read Yeats's poetry aloud in what Dorothy describes as a “strong, odd, accent, half American, half Irish,” even imitating Yeats's own intonations...
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Pound praised Yeats's verse and spoke of the great mystical experience he expected to have and of his willingness to starve for Art and Truth. A blatant ploy, but one which worked. Of his own early poems, those which he read to Dorothy and her mother were full of early Yeatsian tone, theme, subject matter, and archaic diction, in marked contrast to the poetic standards he argued with William Carlos Williams and Harriet Monroe, back in America, and even less advanced than his own efforts in Personae and Exultations (both 1909)...
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