Ezra Pound and James Laughlin: Selected Letters

Even before establishing New Directions, James Laughlin had met and studied with Ezra Pound. These selected letters capture the spirit of their growing relationship from pupil and teacher to publisher and author. Pound's correspondence summons up the inner man and the literary figure. Literature, music, friends and politics fill his pages.

Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/01/1989
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 8.68h x 5.39w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780393035407

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/15/1994 pg. 160
Publishers Weekly 01/31/1994 pg. 72
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/1994 pg. 36

About the Author
Pound, Ezra: - New Directions has been the primary publisher of Ezra Pound in the U.S. since the founding of the press when James Laughlin published New Directions in Prose and Poetry 1936. That year Pound was fifty-one. In Laughlin's first letter to Pound, he wrote: "Expect, please, no fireworks. I am bourgeois-born (Pittsburgh); have never missed a meal. . . . But full of 'noble caring' for something as inconceivable as the future of decent letters in the US." Little did Pound know that into the twenty-first century the fireworks would keep exploding as readers continue to find his books relevant and meaningful.