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101-433: The Review ' s "Writers at Work" series includes interviews with Ezra Pound , Ernest Hemingway , T. S. Eliot , Jorge Luis Borges , Ralph Ellison , William Faulkner , Thornton Wilder , Robert Frost , Pablo Neruda , William Carlos Williams , and Vladimir Nabokov , among hundreds of others. Literary critic Joe David Bellamy wrote that the series was "one of the single most persistent acts of cultural conservation in

202-526: A Boston Tea Party for Ezra" and an end to his despotic rule. Upset at Lowell, Pound began to call Imagisme "Amygism"; he declared the movement dead and asked the group not to call themselves Imagistes . Not accepting that it was Pound's invention, they refused and Anglicized the term. When war was declared in August 1914, opportunities for writers were immediately reduced; poems were now expected to be patriotic. Pound's income from October 1914 to October 1915

303-641: A Quaker who arrived from England around 1650. Ezra's paternal grandmother, Susan Angevine Loomis , married Thaddeus Coleman Pound. On his mother's side, Pound was descended from William Wadsworth , a Puritan who immigrated to Boston on the Lion in 1632. Captain Joseph Wadsworth helped to write the first Connecticut constitution . The Wadsworths married into the Westons of New York; Harding Weston and Mary Parker were Pound's maternal grandparents. After serving in

404-492: A limerick about William Jennings Bryan , who had just lost the 1896 presidential election . In 1897, aged 12, he transferred to Cheltenham Military Academy (CMA), where he wore an American Civil War-style uniform and was taught drilling and how to shoot. The following year he made his first trip overseas, a three-month tour with his mother and Aunt Frank, who took him to England, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, and Morocco. He attended CMA until 1900, at times as

505-561: A love triangle , as they graduate from Brown University and establish themselves in the world. Eugenides is currently at work developing a television screenplay of the novel, which was a finalist of the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 2011; a New York Times notable book for 2011; and one of the top books of the year according to lists made by Publishers Weekly , Kirkus Reviews , and The Telegraph . In 2017, Eugenides published Fresh Complaint ,

606-605: A narcissist and a psychopath , but otherwise completely sane. While in custody in Italy, Pound began work on sections of The Cantos , which were published as The Pisan Cantos (1948), for which he was awarded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1949 by the Library of Congress , causing enormous controversy. After a campaign by his fellow writers, he was released from St. Elizabeth's in 1958 and returned to Italy, where he posed for

707-624: A PhD thesis on the jesters in Lope de Vega 's plays; a two-year Harrison fellowship covered his tuition and a $ 500 grant, with which he sailed again to Europe. He spent three weeks in Madrid in various libraries, including in the Royal Library . On 31 May 1906 he was standing outside the palace during the attempted assassination of King Alfonso and left the city for fear of being mistaken for an anarchist. After Spain he visited Paris and London, returning to

808-761: A Station of the Metro ", published in Poetry in April 1913 and inspired by an experience on the Paris Underground . "I got out of a train at, I think, La Concorde ", he wrote in "How I began" in T. P.'s Weekly on 6 June 1913, "and in the jostle I saw a beautiful face, and then, turning suddenly, another and another, and then a beautiful child's face, and then another beautiful face. All that day I tried to find words for what this made me feel. ... I could get nothing but spots of colour." A year later he reduced it to its essence in

909-647: A blend of folkloric Celtic twilight with a paranoid hatred of the money economy and a dire suspicion about an ancient faith." In May 1911, H.D. left Philadelphia for London. She was accompanied by the poet Frances Gregg and Gregg's mother; when they returned in September, H.D. stayed on. Pound introduced her to his friends, including Aldington, who became her husband in 1913. Before that, the three of them lived in Church Walk, Kensington—Pound at no. 10, Aldington at no. 8, and Doolittle at no. 6—and worked daily in

1010-676: A boarder, but it seems he did not graduate. In 1901, at 15 years old, Pound was admitted to the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia . Years later he said his aim was to avoid drill at the military academy. His one distinction in first year was in geometry, but otherwise his grades were mostly poor, including in Latin, his major; he achieved a B in English composition and

1111-588: A book, it was the first of five Imagist anthologies and the only one to contain work by Pound. It included ten poems by Richard Aldington , seven by H. D. , followed by Flint, Skipwith Cannell , Lowell, Carlos Williams, James Joyce ("I Hear an Army", not an example of Imagism), six by Pound, then Hueffer (as he was known as the time), Allen Upward and John Cournos . Shortly after its publication, an advertisement for Lewis's new magazine, Blast promised it would cover " Cubism , Futurism , Imagisme and all Vital Forms of Modern Art." Described by Pound as "mostly

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1212-576: A breath of fresh air; another said he was "exhibitionist, egotistic, self-centered and self-indulgent". He was dismissed after a few months. Smoking was forbidden, but he would smoke cigarillos in his room in the same corridor as the president's office. He was asked to leave the college in January 1908 when his landladies, Ida and Belle Hall, found a woman in his room. Shocked at having been expelled, he left for Europe soon after, sailing from New York in March on

1313-643: A collaborator, for his spying activities. In a May 27, 2008 interview with Charlie Rose , Matthiessen stated that he "invented The Paris Review as cover" for his CIA activities. Matthiessen maintained that the Review was not part of the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), an organization used by the CIA to sponsor an array of literary magazines; but the record shows The Paris Review benefited financially from selling article reprints to CCF magazines. Under Gourevitch's leadership,

1414-629: A collection of 25 poems, including a contentious translation of The Seafarer , that demonstrate his shift toward minimalist language. In addition to Pound's work, the collection contains five poems by Hulme. Ripostes includes the first mention of Les Imagistes : "As for the future, Les Imagistes , the descendants of the forgotten school of 1909, have that in their keeping." While in the British Museum tearoom one afternoon with Doolittle and Aldington, Pound edited one of Doolittle's poems and wrote "H.D. Imagiste" underneath; he described this later as

1515-436: A collection of short stories written between 1988 and 2017. He described the work as "a very mixed bag of stories, quite different, not all arranged around a certain theme". He has suggested that a fourth novel will be published at an unspecified future date: "I have an idea; I don't know if it's going to work. But it's going to be a larger canvas, many more characters than in [ The Marriage Plot ]. Again, I'm going to respond to

1616-569: A copy of A Lume Spento , and Yeats had apparently found it "charming". Pound wrote to William Carlos Williams on 3 February 1909: "Am by way of falling into the crowd that does things here. London, deah old Lundon, is the place for poesy." According to Richard Aldington , London found Pound amusing. The newspapers interviewed him, and he was mentioned in Punch magazine, which on 23 June 1909 described "Mr. Ezekiel Ton" as "the most remarkable thing in poetry since Robert Browning  ... [blending]

1717-512: A habit that upset her, in part because his writing touched on private aspects of their relationship. She and Aldington decided to move several miles away to Hampstead . The appearance of Des Imagistes, An Anthology (1914), edited by Pound, "confirmed the importance" of Imagisme , according to Ira Nadel . Published in the American magazine The Glebe in February 1914 and the following month as

1818-589: A house at 39 Addison Road North , W11 . By November A. R. Orage , editor of the socialist journal the New Age , had hired him to write a weekly column. Orage appears in The Cantos ( Possum is T. S. Eliot): "but the lot of 'em, Yeats, Possum and Wyndham / had no ground beneath 'em. / Orage had." Pound contributed to the New Age from 30 November 1911 to 13 January 1921, attending editorial meetings in

1919-563: A natural shorthand, which is good because readers are smart and don't wish to be condescended to. I think about the reader. I care about the reader. Not 'audience.' Not 'readership.' Just the reader." In 2018, Eugenides joined New York University 's Creative Writing Program as a tenured full professor and the Lewis and Loretta Glucksman Professor in American Letters. Eugenides met his former wife, photographer and sculptor Karen Yamauchi, at

2020-684: A painter's magazine with me to do the poems," and bearing the heavy influence of Futurism, Blast was the magazine of a London art movement formed by Lewis with Pound's collaboration. Pound named the movement  Vorticism . Vorticism included all the arts, and in Blast "the Imagist propaganda merged into the Vorticist." In the end, Blast was published only twice, in 1914 and 1915. In June 1914 The Times announced Lewis's new Rebel Arts Centre for Vorticist art at 38 Great Ormond Street .    Lowell, who

2121-615: A particular kind of Victorian verse—stirring, pompous, and propagandistic—popular. According to modernist scholar James Knapp, Pound rejected the idea of poetry as "versified moral essay"; he wanted to focus on the individual experience, the concrete rather than the abstract. Pound at first stayed in a boarding house at 8 Duchess Street, near the British Museum Reading Room ; he had met the landlady during his travels in Europe in 1906. He soon moved to Islington (cheaper at 12s 6d

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2222-505: A pass in English literature. In his second year he switched from the degree course to "non-degree special student status", he said "to avoid irrelevant subjects". He was not elected to a fraternity at Penn, but it seemed not to bother him. His parents and Aunt Frank took him on another three-month European tour in 1902, and the following year he transferred to Hamilton College in Clinton, New York , possibly because of his grades. Again he

2323-453: A problem and needed to abandon a Messianic view of themselves as the "dominating race". According to Colin Holmes , the New Age itself published antisemitic material. It was within this environment, not in Italy, according to Tim Redman , that Pound first encountered antisemitic ideas about "usury". "In Douglas's program," Christopher Hitchens wrote in 2008, "Pound had found his true muse:

2424-409: A redesign of the magazine's print edition and its website, both of which were met with critical acclaim. In September 2010, the Review made available online its entire archive of interviews. On December 6, 2017, Stein resigned amid an internal investigation into his sexual misconduct toward women at the workplace. In October 2012, The Paris Review published an anthology, Object Lessons, comprising

2525-403: A selection of 20 short stories from The Paris Review' s archive, each with an introduction by a contemporary author. Contributors include Jeffrey Eugenides (with an introduction to a story by Denis Johnson ), Lydia Davis (with an introduction to a story by Jane Bowles ), and Ali Smith (with an introduction to a story by Lydia Davis ). On October 8, 2012, the magazine launched its app for

2626-521: A third time—Ezra!", Dorothy wrote in her diary on 16 February 1909. Pound mixed with the cream of London's literary circle, including Hewlett, Laurence Binyon , Frederic Manning , Ernest Rhys , May Sinclair , Ellen Terry , George Bernard Shaw , Hilaire Belloc , T. E. Hulme , and F. S. Flint . Through the Shakespears, he was introduced to the poet W. B. Yeats , Olivia Shakespear's former lover. He had already sent Yeats

2727-533: A thousand times, I never looked back. At fifteen, I stopped scowling, I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever. Why should I climb the look out? Jeffrey Eugenides Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American author. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011). The Virgin Suicides served as

2828-483: A week board and lodging ), but his father sent him £4, and he was able to move back into central London, to 48 Langham Street, near Great Titchfield Street . The house sat across an alley from the Yorkshire Grey pub, which made an appearance in "Canto LXXX" ( The Pisan Cantos ), "concerning the landlady's doings  / with a lodger unnamed / az waz near Gt Tichfield St. next door to the pub". Pound persuaded

2929-458: A year off to travel across Europe, during which time he also volunteered with Mother Teresa in Calcutta . Of his decision to study at Brown, he said, "I chose Brown largely in order to study with John Hawkes , whose work I admired. I entered the honors program in English, which forced me to study the entire English tradition, beginning with Beowulf . I felt that since I was going to try to add to

3030-639: A year. Since 2007, he has lived in Princeton, New Jersey , where he moved after he joined the faculty of Princeton University 's Program in Creative Writing. Of teaching creative writing, Eugenides remarked in an interview with The Paris Review , "I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you're writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest friend you have. That way, you'll never dumb things down. You won't have to explain things that don't need explaining. You'll assume an intimacy and

3131-477: Is an annual gala held in celebration of American writers and writing. The Revel "brings together leading figures and patrons of American arts and letters from throughout New York to pay tribute to distinguished writers at different stages of their careers". Proceeds from the Spring Revel go directly toward The Paris Review Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established by the co-founders in 2000 to ensure

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3232-616: Is an emerging writer with a monthly column, "Detroit Archives". The series explores her family history through iconic landmarks in Detroit . "The interviews in The Paris Review […] are about as canonical, in our literary universe, as spoken words can be. They long ago set the standard […] for what well-brewed conversation should sound like on the page." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times An interview with E. M. Forster , an acquaintance of Plimpton's from his days at Kings College at

3333-520: Is from the third canto of Dante 's Purgatorio , alluding to the death of Manfred, King of Sicily . Pound dedicated the book to the Philadelphia artist William Brooke Smith , a friend from university who had recently died of tuberculosis . In "Canto LXXVI" of The Pisan Cantos , he records that he considered throwing the proofs into the Grand Canal , abandoning the book and poetry altogether: "by

3434-680: The MacDowell artist's program. They got married in 1995 and later had a daughter named Georgia Eugenides. After being raised in a nominally Greek Orthodox household, in 2022 Eugenides was received into the Catholic Church with his wife Marlene Morgan at the Church of St. Joseph in Greenwich Village , which they attend with his second daughter Helen. Eugenides' 1993 novel, The Virgin Suicides , has been translated into 34 languages. In 1999,

3535-550: The New Age began to make him unpopular, to the alarm of Orage. Samuel Putnam knew Pound in Paris in the 1920s and described him as stubborn, contrary, cantankerous, bossy, touchy, and "devoid of humor"; he was "an American small-towner", in Putnam's view. His attitude caused him trouble in both London and Paris. English women, with their "preponderantly derivative" minds, were inferior to American women who had minds of their own, he wrote in

3636-461: The New Age . The English sense of what was right was based on respect for property, not morality. "[P]erched on the rotten shell of a crumbling empire", London had lost its energy. England's best authors— Conrad , Hudson , James , and Yeats—were not English. English writers and critics were ignorant, he wrote in 1913. Ezra and Dorothy were married on 20 April 1914 at St Mary Abbots in Kensington,

3737-830: The RMS Slavonia . Pound arrived in Gibraltar on 23 March 1908, where he earned $ 15 a day working as a guide for an American family there and in Spain. After stops in Seville, Grenada, and Genoa, by the end of April he was in Venice , living over a bakery near the San Vio bridge. In the summer he decided to self-publish his first collection of 44 poems in the 72-page A Lume Spento ("With Tapers Quenched"), 150 copies of which were printed in July 1908. The title

3838-472: The Review began incorporating more nonfiction pieces and, for the first time, began regularly publishing a photography spread. A four-volume set of Paris Review interviews was published by Picador from 2006 to 2009. Gourevitch announced his departure in the fall of 2009, citing a desire to concentrate more fully on his creative writing. Lorin Stein was named editor of The Paris Review in April 2010. He oversaw

3939-475: The United States General Land Office . Pound's grandfather, Thaddeus Coleman Pound , a Republican Congressman and the 10th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin , had secured him the appointment. Homer had previously worked for Thaddeus in the lumber business. Both sides of Pound's family emigrated from England in the 17th century. On his father's side, the immigrant ancestor was John Pound,

4040-413: The University of Cambridge , was the first in a long series of author interviews, now known as the "Writers at Work" series. In 1964, The Paris Review initiated a series of prints and posters by contemporary artists with the goal of establishing an ongoing relationship between the worlds of writing and art— Drue Heinz , then publisher of The Paris Review , shared credit with Jane Wilson for initiating

4141-565: The fascist Italian government and its later incarnation as a German puppet state , in which he attacked the United States federal government , Franklin D. Roosevelt , Great Britain , international finance, munitions makers , arms dealers , Jews , and others, as abettors and prolongers of the war. He also praised both eugenics and the Holocaust in Italy , while urging American GIs to throw down their rifles and surrender. In 1945, Pound

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4242-694: The iPad and iPhone . Developed by Atavist, the app includes access to new issues, back issues, and archival collections from its fiction and poetry sections—along with the complete interview series and the Paris Review Daily. In November 2015, The Paris Review published its first anthology of new writing since 1964, The Unprofessionals: New American Writing from The Paris Review, including writing by well-established authors like Zadie Smith , Ben Lerner , and John Jeremiah Sullivan , as well as emerging writers like Emma Cline , Ottessa Moshfegh , Alexandra Kleeman , and Angela Flournoy . In late 2021, for

4343-460: The 8th-century Old English poem The Seafarer . After graduating from Hamilton in 1905 with a PhB , he returned to Penn, where he fell in love with Hilda Doolittle (who later wrote under the name " H.D. "). She was then a student at Bryn Mawr College , and he hand-bound 25 of his poems for her, calling it Hilda's Book . After receiving his MA in Romance languages in 1906, he registered to write

4444-458: The Artist as a Young Man , the 1915 publication of Eliot's " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ", and the serialization from 1918 of Joyce's Ulysses . Hemingway wrote in 1932 that, for poets born in the late 19th or early 20th century, not to be influenced by Pound would be "like passing through a great blizzard and not feeling its cold". Angered by the carnage of World War I , Pound blamed

4545-657: The British Museum Reading Room. At the British Museum, Laurence Binyon introduced Pound to the East Asian artistic and literary concepts Pound used in his later poetry, including Japanese ukiyo-e prints. The visitors' book first shows Pound in the Prints and Drawings Students' Room (known as the Print Room) on 9 February 1909, and later in 1912 and 1913, with Dorothy Shakespear, examining Chinese and Japanese art. Pound

4646-637: The Hadada in 2019. Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II . His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem The Cantos ( c.  1917 –1962). Pound's contribution to poetry began in

4747-803: The Holy Spirit." After living a few years in San Francisco , he moved to Brooklyn, New York and worked as secretary for the Academy of American Poets . While in New York he made friends with numerous similarly struggling writers, including Jonathan Franzen . From 1999 to 2004, Eugenides lived in Berlin , where he moved after being awarded a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service to write in Berlin for

4848-656: The Seine from 1956 to 1957. The Café de Tournon in the Rue de Tournon on the Rive Gauche was the meeting place for staffers and writers, including du Bois, Plimpton, Matthiessen, Alexander Trocchi , Christopher Logue , and Eugene Walter . The first floor and basement rooms in Plimpton's 72nd Street apartment became the headquarters of The Paris Review when the magazine moved from Paris to New York City in 1973. The magazine's circulation

4949-399: The Shakespears' parish church, despite opposition from her parents, who worried about Ezra's income. His concession to marry in church had helped. Dorothy's annual income was £50, with another £150 from her family, and Ezra's was £200. Her father, Henry Hope Shakespear, had him prepare a financial statement in 1911, which showed that his main source of income was his father. After the wedding

5050-650: The U.S. again. After three days in London he went to Paris, where he worked on a new collection of poetry, Canzoni (1911), panned by the Westminster Gazette as "affectation combined with pedantry". He wrote in Ford Madox Ford's obituary that Ford had rolled on the floor with laughter at its "stilted language". When he returned to London in August, he rented a room in Marylebone at 2A Granville Place, then shared

5151-578: The United States in July 1906. His first essay, "Raphaelite Latin", was published in the Book News Monthly that September. He took courses in English in 1907, where he fell out with just about everyone, including the department head, Felix Schelling , with silly remarks during lectures and by winding an enormous tin watch very slowly while Schelling spoke. In the spring of 1907 he learned that his fellowship would not be renewed. Schelling told him he

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5252-457: The WIENER CAFÉ". Ford Madox Ford described Pound as "approach[ing] with the step of a dancer, making passes with a cane at an imaginary opponent": He would wear trousers made of green billiard cloth, a pink coat, a blue shirt, a tie hand-painted by a Japanese friend, an immense sombrero, a flaming beard cut to a point, and a single, large blue earring. At a literary salon in 1909, Pound met

5353-446: The aim in mind of merely removing criticism from the dominating place it holds in most literary magazines. […] I think The Paris Review should welcome these people into its pages: the good writers and good poets, the non-drumbeaters and non-axe-grinders. So long as they're good. The Review ' s founding editors include Humes, Matthiessen, Plimpton, William Pène du Bois , Thomas Guinzburg and John P. C. Train . The first publisher

5454-443: The assembly line to the blight of racism, not to mention the music, Motown , the MC5 , house, techno." He also says he has been "haunted" by the decline of Detroit. In 1983, after graduating from Brown, he moved to San Francisco with the intention of becoming a writer and lived on Haight Street . In 1986, he received the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowship for his story "Here Comes Winston, Full of

5555-442: The basement of a grimy ABC tearoom in Chancery Lane . There and at other meetings he met Arnold Bennett , Cecil Chesterton , Beatrice Hastings , S. G. Hobson , Hulme, Katherine Mansfield , and H. G. Wells . In the New Age office in 1918, he also met C. H. Douglas , a British engineer who was developing his economic theory of social credit , which Pound found attractive. Douglas reportedly believed that Jews were

5656-411: The basis for the 2010 romantic comedy The Switch . Eugenides temporarily put Middlesex aside in the late '90s to begin work on a novel that would eventually serve as the basis for his third. Two excerpts of what became Eugenides's work-in-progress third novel after Middlesex also appeared in The New Yorker in 2011, "Asleep in the Lord" and "Extreme Solitude." Eugenides also served as the editor of

5757-645: The basis of the 1999 film of the same name , while Middlesex received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in addition to being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award , the International Dublin Literary Award , and France's Prix Médicis . Jeffrey Kent Eugenides was born in Detroit on March 8, 1960. He is of Greek descent through his father and English and Irish descent through his mother. He has two older brothers. He attended Grosse Pointe 's private University Liggett School and then Brown University (where he became friends with contemporary Rick Moody ). He graduated from Brown in 1982 after taking

5858-404: The best poem I have yet had or seen from an American ... He has actually trained himself and modernized himself on his own ." Monroe did not like Prufrock's "very European world-weariness", according to Humphrey Carpenter , but she published it anyway, in June 1915. At fourteen I married My Lord you. I never laughed, being bashful. Lowering my head, I looked at the wall. Called to,

5959-510: The bookseller Elkin Mathews on Vigo Street to display A Lume Spento , and in an unsigned article on 26 November 1908, Pound reviewed it himself in the Evening Standard : "The unseizable magic of poetry is in this queer paper book; and words are no good in describing it." The following month he self-published a second collection, A Quinzaine for this Yule . It was his first book to have commercial success, and Elkin Matthews had another 100 copies printed. In January and February 1909, after

6060-425: The collection of short stories titled My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead . The proceeds of the collection go to the writing center 826 Chicago , established to encourage young people's writing. His 2002 novel, Middlesex , won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in addition to being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award , the International Dublin Literary Award , and France's Prix Médicis . Following

6161-408: The couple moved into an apartment with no bathroom at 5 Holland Place Chambers, Kensington, next door to the newly wed H.D. and Aldington. This arrangement did not last. H.D. had been alarmed to find Ezra looking for a place to live outside the apartment building the day before his wedding. Once Dorothy and Ezra had moved into the building, Ezra would arrive unannounced at H.D.'s to discuss his writing,

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6262-453: The death of John Churton Collins left a vacancy, Pound lectured for an hour a week in the evenings on "The Development of Literature in Southern Europe" at the Regent Street Polytechnic . Mornings might be spent in the British Museum Reading Room, followed by lunch at the Vienna Café on Oxford Street , where Pound first met Wyndham Lewis in 1910. "There were mysterious figures / that emerged from recondite recesses / and ate at

6363-424: The early 20th century with his role in developing Imagism , a movement stressing precision and economy of language. Working in London as foreign editor of several American literary magazines, he helped discover and shape the work of contemporaries such as H. D. , Robert Frost , T. S. Eliot , Ernest Hemingway , and James Joyce . He was responsible for the 1914 serialization of Joyce's A Portrait of

6464-463: The family bought a six-bedroom house in 1893 at 166 Fernbrook Avenue, Wyncote . Pound's education began in dame schools : Miss Elliott's school in Jenkintown in 1892 and the Heathcock family's Chelten Hills School in Wyncote in 1893. Known as "Ra" (pronounced "Ray"), he attended Wyncote Public School from September 1894. His first publication was on 7 November 1896 in the Jenkintown Times-Chronicle ("by E. L. Pound, Wyncote, aged 11 years"),

6565-535: The fifth issue. The magazine was also among the first to recognize the work of Jack Kerouac with the publication of his short story, "The Mexican Girl", in 1955. Other works making their first appearance in The Paris Review include Italo Calvino 's Last Comes the Raven , Philip Roth's Goodbye Columbus , Donald Barthelme 's Alice , Jim Carroll 's The Basketball Diaries , Matthiessen's Far Tortuga , Jeffrey Eugenides 's The Virgin Suicides , and Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections . Aisha Sabatini Sloan

6666-644: The first issue with Stokes as editor-in-chief and Na Kim as art director, the journal was given a redesign by Matt Willey of Pentagram that hearkened back to the look that it had in the late 1960s and early 1970s: a minimalist style, a cover with a sans serif font and a great deal of white space, a smaller trim size, and paper that was physically softer. The Review has published several emerging writers who have gone to notable careers, including Adrienne Rich , V.S. Naipaul , Philip Roth , T. Coraghessan Boyle , Mona Simpson , Edward P. Jones , and Rick Moody . Selections from Samuel Beckett 's novel Molloy appeared in

6767-422: The founding of a movement in poetry, Imagisme . In the spring or early summer of 1912, they agreed, Pound wrote in 1918, on three principles: Poetry published Pound's "A Few Don'ts by an Imagist" in March 1913. Superfluous words, particularly adjectives, should be avoided, as well as expressions like "dim lands of peace". He wrote: "It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from

6868-407: The future of The Paris Review . The 2010 Spring Revel took place on April 13, 2010 and presented Philip Roth with the Hadada. The 2011 Spring Revel took place on April 12, 2011, chaired by Yves-André Istel and Kathleen Begala. Robert Redford presented the Hadada to James Salter . The 2011 Revel also featured Ann Beattie presenting the Plimpton Prize for Fiction and Fran Lebowitz presenting

6969-422: The history of the world." The headquarters of The Paris Review moved from Paris to New York City in 1973. Plimpton edited the Review from its founding until his death in 2003. An editorial statement by William Styron in the inaugural Spring 1953 issue described the magazine's intended aim: The Paris Review hopes to emphasize creative work—fiction and poetry—not to the exclusion of criticism, but with

7070-572: The imagery of the unfettered West, the vocabulary of Wardour Street , and the sinister abandon of Borgiac Italy". "Thank you, whatever comes." And then she turned And, as the ray of sun on hanging flowers Fades when the wind hath lifted them aside, Went swiftly from me. Nay, whatever comes One hour was sunlit and the most high gods May not make boast of any better thing Than to have watched that hour as it passed. —  Personae: The Collected Poems of Ezra Pound (1926) In April 1909 Elkin Mathews published Personae of Ezra Pound (half

7171-447: The inaugural Terry Southern Prize for Humor. In 2012, Robert Silvers received the Hadada. In 2013, it was Paula Fox . In 2014, Frederick Seidel received the prize. In 2015, it was Norman Rush . In 2016, Errol Morris presented Lydia Davis with the Hadada and 2017 Edward Hirsch presented Richard Howard with the Hadada. In 2018, Joy Williams received the prize from John Waters . Fran Lebowitz presented Deborah Eisenberg with

7272-585: The life and self-discovery of Calliope Stephanides, or later, Cal, an intersex person raised a girl, but genetically male, Middlesex also broadly deals with the Greek American immigrant experience in the United States, the rise and fall of Detroit, and explores the experience of an intersex person in the United States. After a nine-year hiatus, Eugenides published his third novel, The Marriage Plot , in October 2011. The novel follows three young adults enmeshed in

7373-590: The military, Harding remained unemployed, so his brother Ezra Weston and Ezra's wife, Frances Amelia Wessells Freer (Aunt Frank), helped to look after Isabel, Pound's mother. Isabel Pound was unhappy in Hailey and took Ezra with her to New York in 1887 when he was 18 months old. Her husband followed and found a job as an assayer at the Philadelphia Mint . After a move to 417 Walnut Street in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania ,

7474-449: The nineteenth-century literature the modernists and postmodernists were reacting against." Eugenides was raised in Detroit and cites the influence of the city and his high school experiences on his writings. He has said that he has "a perverse love" of his birthplace: "I think most of the major elements of American history are exemplified in Detroit, from the triumph of the automobile and

7575-595: The novel was adapted into a critically acclaimed film directed by Sofia Coppola . Set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan , the novel follows the lives and deaths by suicide of five sisters over the course of an increasingly isolated year, as told from the point of view of the neighborhood boys who obsessively watch them. Eugenides published short stories in the nine years between The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex , primarily in The New Yorker . His 1996 story "Baster" became

7676-463: The novelist Olivia Shakespear and later at the Shakespears' home at 12 Brunswick Gardens, Kensington, was introduced to her daughter, Dorothy , who became Pound's wife in 1914. The critic Iris Barry described her as "carrying herself delicately with the air, always, of a young Victorian lady out skating, and a profile as clear and lovely as that of a porcelain Kuan-yin". "Listen to it—Ezra! Ezra!—And

7777-702: The poems were from A Lume Spento ) and in October a further 27 poems (16 new) as Exultations . Edward Thomas described Personae in English Review as "full of human passion and natural magic". Rupert Brooke complained in the Cambridge Review that Pound had fallen under the influence of Walt Whitman , writing in "unmetrical sprawling lengths that, in his hands, have nothing to commend them". But he did acknowledge that Pound had "great talents". In or around September, Pound moved into new rooms at Church Walk, off Kensington High Street , where he lived most of

7878-552: The press giving the Fascist salute and called America "an insane asylum". Pound remained in Italy until his death in 1972. His economic and political views have ensured that his life and literary legacy remain highly controversial. Pound was born in 1885 in a two-story clapboard house in Hailey , Idaho Territory, the only child of Homer Loomis Pound and Isabel Weston, who married in 1884. Homer had worked in Hailey since 1883 as registrar of

7979-419: The printers objecting to words like "fart" and "ballocks", and fearing prosecution over Stephen Dedalus 's thoughts about prostitutes. On the basis of the serialization, the publisher that had rejected Dubliners reconsidered. Joyce wrote to Yeats: "I can never thank you enough for having brought me into relation with your friend Ezra Pound who is indeed a miracle worker." Around this time, Pound's articles in

8080-469: The publication in London of his first book of literary criticism, The Spirit of Romance , based on his lecture notes from the polytechnic. Patria Mia , his essays on the United States, were written at this time. In August he moved to New York, renting rooms on Waverly Place and Park Avenue South , facing Gramercy Square . Although he loved New York, he felt alienated by the commercialism and newcomers from Eastern and Southern Europe who were displacing

8181-543: The series. In the half century since its inception, the series has featured notable New York artists of the postwar decades, including Louise Bourgeois , Willem de Kooning , David Hockney , Helen Frankenthaler , Keith Haring , Robert Indiana , Jimmy Ernst , Alex Katz , Ellsworth Kelly , Sol LeWitt , Roy Lichtenstein , Robert Motherwell , Louise Nevelson , Claes Oldenburg , Robert Rauschenberg , Larry Rivers , James Rosenquist , Ed Ruscha and Andy Warhol . The series, suspended after George Plimpton's death in 2003,

8282-454: The soap-smooth stone posts where San Vio / meets with il Canal Grande / between Salviati and the house that was of Don Carlos / shd/I chuck the lot into the tide-water? / le bozze "A Lume Spento"/ / and by the column of Todero / shd/I shift to the other side / or wait 24 hours". In August 1908 Pound moved to London, carrying 60 copies of A Lume Spento . English poets such as Maurice Hewlett , Rudyard Kipling , and Alfred Tennyson had made

8383-550: The style of a Japanese haiku . In the summer of 1913 Pound became literary editor of The Egoist , a journal founded by the suffragette Dora Marsden . At the suggestion of W. B. Yeats , Pound encouraged James Joyce in December of that year to submit his work. The previous month Yeats, whose eyesight was failing, had rented Stone Cottage in Coleman's Hatch , Sussex, inviting Pound to accompany him as his secretary, and it

8484-432: The time until 1914. He visited a friend, Walter Rummel , in Paris in March 1910 and was introduced to the American heiress and pianist Margaret Lanier Cravens. Although they had only just met, she offered to become a patron to the tune of $ 1,000 a year, and from then until her death in 1912 she apparently sent him money regularly. In June 1910 Pound returned for eight months to the United States; his arrival coincided with

8585-681: The title, in his view. During the subsequent row, Pound left the table and returned with a tin bathtub on his head, suggesting it as a symbol of what he called Les Nagistes , a school created by Lowell's poem "In a Garden", which ends with "Night, and the water, and you in your whiteness, bathing!" Apparently his behavior helped Lowell win people over to her point of view, as did her offer to fund future work. H.D. and Aldington were moving away from Pound's understanding of Imagisme anyway, as he aligned himself with Lewis's ideas. Lowell agreed to finance an annual anthology of Imagiste poets, but she insisted on democracy; according to Aldington, she "proposed

8686-650: The tradition, I had better know something about it." In 1986, he earned an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University . Eugenides knew he wanted to be a writer from a relatively early age, stating, "I decided very early; during my junior year of high school. We read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man that year, and it had a big effect on me, for reasons that seem quite amusing to me now. I'm half Irish and half Greek—my mother's family were Kentuckians , Southern hillbillies , and my paternal grandparents immigrants from Asia Minor —and, for that reason, I identified with Stephen Dedalus . Like me, he

8787-472: The war on finance capitalism , which he called " usury ". He moved to Italy in 1924 and through the 1930s and 1940s promoted an economic theory known as social credit , wrote for publications owned by the British fascist Sir Oswald Mosley , embraced Benito Mussolini 's fascism , and expressed support for Adolf Hitler . During World War II , Pound recorded hundreds of paid radio propaganda broadcasts for

8888-593: The white Anglo-Saxon Protestants. The recently built New York Public Library Main Branch he found especially offensive. During this period his antisemitism became apparent; he referred in Patria Mia to the "detestable qualities" of Jews. After persuading his parents to finance his passage back to Europe, he sailed from New York on the RMS Mauretania on 22 February 1911. It was nearly 30 years—April 1939—before he visited

8989-412: The writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol." Poets should "go in fear of abstractions". He wanted Imagisme "to stand for hard light, clear edges", he wrote later to Amy Lowell . The apparition of these faces in the crowd: Petals on a wet, black bough. —  Poetry (April 1913) An example of Imagist poetry is Pound's " In

9090-487: Was Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan . Du Bois, the magazine's first art editor, designed the iconic Paris Review eagle to include both American and French significance: an American eagle holding a pen and wearing a Phrygian cap . The magazine's first office was located in a small room of the publishing house Éditions de la Table ronde . Other notable locations of The Paris Review include a Thames River grain carrier anchored on

9191-475: Was 9,700 in 1989. Brigid Hughes took over as editor following Plimpton's death in 2003; her last issue was March 2005. She was succeeded by Philip Gourevitch in spring 2005. In January 2007, an article published by The New York Times supported the claim that founding editor Matthiessen was in the Central Intelligence Agency , but reported that the magazine was used as a cover, rather than

9292-601: Was bookish, good at academics, and possessed an 'absurd name, an ancient Greek'. [...] I do remember thinking [...] that to be a writer was the best thing a person could be. It seemed to promise maximum alertness to life. It seemed holy to me, and almost religious." Of his earliest literary influences, he cited "the great modernists . Joyce , Proust , Faulkner . From these I went on to discover Musil , Woolf , and others, and soon my friends and I were reading Pynchon and John Barth . My generation grew up backward. We were weaned on experimental writing before ever reading much of

9393-599: Was captured by the Italian Resistance and handed over to the U.S. Army 's Counterintelligence Corps , who held him pending extradition and prosecution based on an indictment for treason . He spent months in a U.S. military detention camp near Pisa , including three weeks in an outdoor steel cage. Ruled mentally unfit to stand trial, Pound was incarcerated for over 12 years at St. Elizabeths psychiatric hospital in Washington, D.C. , whose doctors viewed Pound as

9494-446: Was during this visit that Yeats introduced Pound to Joyce's Chamber Music and his "I hear an Army Charging Upon the Land". This was the first of three winters Pound and Yeats spent at Stone Cottage, including two with Dorothy after she and Ezra married in 1914. "Canto LXXXIII" records a visit: "so that I recalled the noise in the chimney / as it were the wind in the chimney / but

9595-476: Was in reality Uncle William  / downstairs composing / that had made a great Peeeeacock / in the proide ov his oiye." In his reply to Pound, Joyce gave permission to use "I hear an Army" and enclosed Dubliners and the first chapter of his novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . Pound wrote to Joyce that the novel was "damn fine stuff". Harriet Shaw Weaver accepted it for The Egoist , which serialized it from 2 February 1914, despite

9696-541: Was not invited to join a fraternity, but this time he had hoped to do so, according to letters home, because he wanted to live in a fraternity house , and by April 1904 he regarded the move as a mistake. Signed up for the Latin–Scientific course, he appears to have avoided some classes; his transcript is short of credits. He studied the Provençal dialect and read Dante and Anglo-Saxon poetry , including Beowulf and

9797-641: Was relaunched in 2012 with a print by Donald Baechler . Three prizes are awarded annually by the editors of The Paris Review : the Paris Review Hadada , the Plimpton Prize , and the Terry Southern Prize for Humor . Winning selections are celebrated at the annual Spring Revel . No application form is required. Instead, winners are selected from the stories and poems published the previous year in The Paris Review . The Paris Review Spring Revel

9898-744: Was to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926, was unhappy that only one of her poems had appeared in Des Imagistes . She arrived in London in July 1914 to attend two dinners at the Dieudonné restaurant in Ryder Street, the first to celebrate the publication of Blast and the second, on 17 July, the publication of Des Imagistes . At the second, Ford Madox Hueffer announced that he had been an Imagiste long before Lowell and Pound, and that he doubted their qualifications; only Aldington and H.D. could lay claim to

9999-647: Was wasting everyone's time, and he left without finishing his doctorate. I am homesick after mine own kind, Oh I know that there are folk about me, friendly faces, But I am homesick after mine own kind. —  Personae of Ezra Pound (1909) written in Crawfordsville, Indiana, 1907 From September 1907 Pound taught French and Spanish at Wabash College , a Presbyterian college with 345 students in Crawfordsville, Indiana , which he called "the sixth circle of hell ". One former student remembered him as

10100-612: Was working at the time on the poems that became Ripostes (1912), trying to move away from his earlier work. "I hadn't in 1910 made a language", he wrote years later. "I don't mean a language to use, but even a language to think in." In August 1912 Harriet Monroe hired Pound as foreign correspondent of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse , a new magazine in Chicago. The first edition, in October, featured two of his own poems—"To Whistler, American" and "Middle Aged". Also that month Stephen Swift and Co. in London published Ripostes of Ezra Pound ,

10201-411: Was £42.10.0, apparently five times less than the year before. On 22 September 1914 T. S. Eliot traveled from Merton College, Oxford , with an introduction from Conrad Aiken , to have Pound read Eliot's unpublished " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ". Pound wrote to Harriet Monroe, editor of Poetry , on 30 September to say that Eliot—who was at Oxford on a fellowship from Harvard —had "sent in

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