Any reader even peripherally interested in the work and life of Ezra Pound will take delight in Omar Pound and A. Walton Litz's masterful selection and editing of Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear: Their Letters, 1909-1914. To hear the authentic voices of the letters is to meet again but anew the youthful Pound. The facts of Pound's growth as an artist and critic during these years are not altered, but a new perception of the inner workings of his mind and personality is gained. More important, the volume serves as a concise but fully detailed picture of the social and cultural life of late Edwardian and early Georgian England, an era unknowingly on the brink of irrevocable destruction within a year of the end of this chronicle.

In contrast to the manner in which the structures and conventions of late Edwardian and early Georgian society hindered Pound's courtship with Dorothy Shakespear, the existence in London of serious reviews, of clubs and societies, of bookshops and small......

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Title: Ezra Pound And Dorothy Shakespear: Their Letters, 1909-1914
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