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Ezra Pound ANS in 1919, the last year as Editor of "The Little Review"
Ezra Pound ANS in 1919, the last year as Editor of "The Little Review"
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Pound Ezra 1885 - 1972 Ezra Pound ANS in 1919, the last year as Editor of "The Little Review".

Black and white postcard, 5.5" x 3.5", stamped and postmarked from Paris. Postmark date of " 11-6 / 19" (June 11, 1919). Signed by Ezra Pound as "E Pound". Overall toned with faint handling marks.

Ezra Pound sailed to London in 1908 where he was befriended by his hero, W. B. Yeats. Between 1908 and 1911 he published six collections of verse, most of it dominated by a passion for Provencal and early Italian poetry. This is filtered through the medievalizing manner of Browning and the Pre-Raphaelites. Under the influence of Ford Madox Ford and T. E. Hulme he modernized his style, and in 1912 launched the Imagist movement, advocating concreteness, economy, and free verse. The oriental delicacy of his brief Imagist lyrics (e.g. 'In a Station of the Metro') soon gave way to the more dynamically avant-garde manner of Vorticism. Association with Vorticist visual artists (e.g. Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Wyndham Lewis) helped him to see how poems could be made up, like post-Cubist sculptures, of juxtaposed masses and planes. These lessons were reinforced by his work on Ernest Fenollosa's literal versions of classical Chinese poems, which he turned into the beautiful free-verse lyrics of Cathay (1915). Fenollosa had argued that Chinese written characters were ideograms--compressed and abstracted visual metaphors. By 1917 Ezra Pound was additionally the foreign edition of "The Little Review", however his move to Paris in late 1919 had him relinquish this role which he mentions in his note as shown in full below:

"Note new publication (Gaudier. Brzeska portfolio) by Ovid Press 43 Belsize Park Gardens, London, N.W.3. directed by J. Rodben who replaces me as foreign edtr of Little Review.

E Pound"

"The Little Review", an American literary magazine founded by Margaret Anderson, published literary and art work from 1914 to May 1929. With the help of Ezra Pound and a few others, Anderson created a magazine that featured a wide variety of transatlantic modernists and cultivated many early examples of experimental writing and art. Many contributors were American, British, Irish, and French. In addition to publishing a variety of international literature, The Little Review printed early examples of surrealist artwork and Dadaism. The magazine's most well known work was the serialization of James Joyce's "Ulysses".

Pound left London in late 1919 and spent four years in Paris; his note was addressed to Fritz Vanderpyl, a Parisian journalist.

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