By James Longenbach
Even supposing readers of recent literature have continuously identified in regards to the collaboration of W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound, the an important winters those poets spent residing jointly in Stone Cottage in Sussex (1913-1916) have remained a secret. operating from a wide base of formerly unpublished fabric, James Longenbach provides for the 1st time the untold tale of those 3 winters. contained in the mystery global of Stone Cottage, Pound's Imagist poems have been inextricably associated with Yeats's reports in spiritualism and magic, and early drafts of The Cantos display that the poem all started in accordance with a similar esoteric texts that formed Yeats's visionary approach. whilst, Yeats's autobiographies and Noh-style performs took form with Pound's guidance. Having retreated to Sussex to flee the flurry of wartime London, either poets tracked the development of the good battle and in reaction wrote poems--some unpublished until eventually now--that without delay deal with the poet's political functionality. greater than the tale of a literary friendship, Stone Cottage explores the Pound-Yeats connection in the higher context of contemporary literature and tradition, illuminating paintings that ranks with the best achievements of modernism.
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