Hemingway and Pound: a most unlikely friendship

201 Pages·2014·1.493 MB·English

by  Cohassey, John;Hemingway, Ernest;Pound, Ezra

Hemingway and Pound
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Hemingway and Pound
A Most Unlikely Friendship
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OHN OHASSEY
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Jefferson, North Carolina
ALSOOFINTEREST
American Cultural Rebels: Avant-Garde and Bohemian Artists, Writers
and Musicians from the 1850s through the 1960sby Roy Kotynek and
John Cohassey (McFarland, 2008)
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Cohassey, John, 1961– author.
Hemingway and Pound : a most unlikely friendship /
John Cohassey.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN 978-0-7864-7640-4 (softcover : acid free paper)
ISBN 978-1-4766-1647-6 (ebook)
1. Hemingway, Ernest, 1899–1961—Friends and associates.
2. Pound, Ezra, 1885–1972—Friends and associates. I. Title.
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On the cover: left to right Ezra Pound (clipart.com); Ernest Hemingway,
ca. 1920 (Photofest); background image and texture (© iStock/Thinkstock)
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To Roy Kotynek,
a unique friend, mentor
and all- around good guy
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Preface 1
1. Crossing Paths in Paris 5
2. A Modernist Apprenticeship 16
3. Among Pound’s Constellation 22
4. Little Magazines 33
5. Transatlantic Paris 54
6. Ascendant Star, Poet Outlier 66
7. Fame and World Crisis 77
8. Friends on Different Shores 84
9. Two Voices, Two Men 94
10. United Fronts, Divided Friendships 104
11. Wordsmiths in Wartime 116
12. An Exile’s Return 134
13. “A good year to release poets” 142
Conclusion: The Snows of Yesteryear 159
Chapter Notes 163
Bibliography 177
Index 185
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Acknowledgments
Reprinted with the permission of Scribner Publishing Group from The Sun Also
Rises by Ernest Hemingway. Copyright © 1926 by Charles Scribner’s Sons; copy-
right renewed © 1954 by Ernest Hemingway. All rights reserved.
Reprinted with the permission of Scribner Publishing Group from Death in the
Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway. Copyright © 1932 by Charles Scribner’s Sons;
copyright renewed © 1960 by Ernest Hemingway. All rights reserved.
Reprinted with the permission of Scribner Publishing Group from To Have and
Have Not by Ernest Hemingway. Copyright © 1937 by Ernest Hemingway; copy-
right renewal © 1965 by Mary Hemingway. All rights reserved.
Reprinted with the permission of Scribner Publishing Group from For Whom
the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. Copyright © 1964 by Ernest Hemingway;
copyright renewed © 1940 by Ernest Hemingway. Copyright renewed © 1968
by Mary Hemingway. All rights reserved.
Reprinted with the permission of Scribner Publishing Group from A Moveable
Feast by Ernest Hemingway. Copyright © 1964 by Ernest Hemingway; copyright
renewed © 1992 by John H. Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway, and Gregory
Hemingway. All rights reserved.
Reprinted with the permission of Scribner Publishing Group from True at First
Light by Ernest Hemingway. Copyright © 1999. All rights reserved.
Reprinted with the permission of Scribner Publishing Group from Ernest Hem-
ingway, Selected Letters 1917–1961 by Carlos Baker. Copyright ©. All rights
reserved.
Letters from Ernest Hemingway to Sherwood Anderson and letter from Sher-
wood Anderson to Lewis Galantiere (Midwest MS Anderson Box 21 Folder
1068; Box 7 Folder 261) quoted courtesy Newberry Library, Chicago.
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