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  • The madness of Ezra Pound

    The madness of Ezra Pound

    Jerome McGann wrote: “No English-speaking poet of this century has been the subject of as much biographical scrutiny as Ezra Pound.” Daniel Swift in the prologue to his biography of Pound adds that he was “the most difficult man of the 20th century”. Since so much has been written about him – which you are…

  • Gertrude Stein: Poet, Modernist… Fascist? 

    Gertrude Stein: Poet, Modernist… Fascist? 

    Gertrude Stein’s name echoes through the modernist canon – a self-proclaimed literary innovator, avant-garde poet and patron of the arts. She hosted salons that drew the likes of Hemingway, Picasso and Fitzgerald, and coined the term ‘Lost Generation’. Her legacy, at a glance, seems firmly entrenched in the cultural revolution of the early 20th century. But…