Eyck - Ezra Pounds Adams Cantos

Works by Pound

ABCR . 1934. New York: New Directions, 1960.

C . Thirteenth printing. New York: New Directions, 1995. All references to The Cantos are followed by the Canto number and page number in this edition, separated by a slash. For example: ( C , 62/341).

CEP , ed. Michael John King. New York: New Directions, 1976.

Con . New York: New Directions, 1951.

EPCF , ed. Zhaoming Qian. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

EPCP , ed. Lea Baechler, A. Walton Litz and James Longenbach, 11 vols. New York: Garland, 1991. References to this text are followed by volume and page number.

EPEC , ed. Roxana Preda. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007.

EP/GHT , ed. Philip J. Burns. Orono: National Poetry Foundation, 1996.

EP/JI , ed. Vittoria I. Mondolfo and Margaret Hurley. Orono: National Poetry Foundation, 1979.

EP/ORA , ed. Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos and Leon Surrette. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.

EP/Parents , ed. Mary de Rachewiltz, A. David Moody and Joanna Moody. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

EP/SN , ed. Miranda B. Hickman. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2011.

GB . 1916. New York: New Directions, 1974.

GK . New York: New Directions, 1970.

J/M . 1935. New York: Liveright, 1970.

LE , ed. T. S. Eliot. New York: New Directions, 1976.

MA , ed. Maria Luisa Ardizzone. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996.

P , ed. Lea Baechler and A. Walton Litz. New York: New Directions, 1990.

SL , ed. D. D. Paige. New York: New Directions, 1971.

SP 19091965 , ed. William Cookson. New York: New Directions, 1973.

SR The Spirit of Romance. Rev. edn. New York: New Directions, 1968.

Other works

HGC Joseph Anne Marie Moyriac de Mailla, , 11 vols. Paris: Ph.-D. Pierres & Clousier, 177785. References to this text are followed by volume and page number.

WJA John Adams, Works of John Adams , ed. Charles Francis Adams, 10 vols. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 185056. References to this text are followed by volume and page number.

Library archives

EPP, Beinecke Ezra Pound Papers (YCAL MSS 43), Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. All references to material in this collection are followed by box, folder and (where appropriate) page numbers. For example: (EPP, Beinecke, 72, 3212, p. 6).

Faber Material held in the Production and Editorial Files at Faber and Fabers offices in London.

Lilly Pound MSS. III, The Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

ORP, Beinecke Olga Rudge Papers (YCAL MSS 54), Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. All references to material in this collection are followed by box, folder and (where appropriate) page numbers. For example: (ORP, Beinecke, 9, 223, p. 1).

Toledo Ezra Pounds annotated set of the Works of John Adams , which is housed at the Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections at the University of Toledo, Ohio. All references to Pounds copy of the Works are followed by volume and page number. For example: (Toledo IV, 407).

This study draws on archival research carried out intermittently over a period of more than ten years, relating primarily to Pounds Adams Cantos, but also involving several other sections of . Over the course of these years my work has been supported and enriched by the contributions of numerous friends and colleagues. I am grateful to have the opportunity to recognise the most important of these debts here.

This book builds upon my doctoral thesis, entitled The Development and Composition of Ezra Pounds Adams Cantos, which was written under the supervision of Professor Ronald Bush at Oxford University. Ronald Bushs guidance during my years as a doctoral student and the exchanges I have had with him since that time have been crucial in opening many of the avenues of investigation that are explored in these pages. His critical incisiveness, scholarly rigour and collegial generosity have been a model to me in my own work, and I am deeply grateful for his guidance and friendship, both in the context of the present study and in that of an ongoing editorial project on Pounds .

I am likewise grateful to Professors Jeri Johnson and Peter Nicholls, who acted as examiners for my doctoral thesis, and whose comments were invaluable to me as I set about revising and expanding upon my thesis. I am indebted as well to St Annes College and Worcester College, at Oxford University, for the generous financial assistance they made available to me during my doctoral studies.

The majority of the archival research on which this study is based was done at Yale Universitys Beinecke Library, and I would like to thank Nancy Kuhl and the rest of the Beineckes staff for the knowledgeable assistance and friendly service they have provided over the years. My thanks also go to the staff at Indiana Universitys Lilly Library, at the Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections at the University of Toledo, Ohio and at Harvard Universitys Houghton Library. I am likewise grateful to Faber and Faber for allowing me to consult their editorial and production files.

During my work on this book I have benefited enormously from the spirit of collegial exchange that exists within the community of Ezra Pound scholars. My debts to fellow Pound scholars are far too numerous to acknowledge in full. Particular thanks go to Anderson Araujo and Bernard Dew, for the precious friendship and stimulating conversations about all things Poundian that we have shared over the years; to Michael Biondi, David Moody and Stephen Wilson for their astute readings of the Adams Cantos and for the generosity with which they have shared their insights into these poems; to Richard Parker, Helen Carr and the London Cantos Reading Group, who offered me the chance to present a portion of this project at one of their meetings; to Mark Byron, David Cappella, John Elek, Peter Liebregts, Alec Marsh and Catherine Paul, for the insights they have offered into Pounds poetry in conversation and in correspondence; and to the organizers of the biannual International Ezra Pound Conference, particularly Walter Baumann, John Gery and William Pratt. These conferences have offered me a venue where I was able to present aspects of this project and to benefit from valuable exchanges with Pound scholars from around the world. I am likewise grateful to the editorial team at s special issue on Ezra Pound and American Identity in 2005, under the direction of Hugh Witemeyer.

Like all students of Ezra Pound, I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to the Pound family and to Pounds publishers. Mary de Rachewiltzs inspirational support for the study and transmission of Ezra Pounds work has been invaluable to generations of Pound scholars. Without her generosity, and the generosity of the Pound Estate, in making available documentary materials, studies such as mine would not be possible. Likewise, the care and devotion with which New Directions in New York and Faber and Faber in London have managed their stewardship of Pounds work has been indispensable in bringing this project to fruition.

I would also like to thank Laura Murray, Colleen Coalter and the editorial team at Bloomsbury for their patient and devoted work in seeing this project into print. I am grateful to Matthew Feldman and Erik Tonning for their commitment to the Historicizing Modernism series, which provides an invaluable forum for highly focused archival studies such as this.

Finally, on a personal level, I am very deeply grateful to my family for the support and loving encouragement that they have offered me over the course of my years of work on Pounds poetry, and for the sacrifices they have made so that I might visit archives, attend conferences and devote long hours to research. To my wife Stphanie, my children Marie, Elliot and Arthur, and my parents Jim and Vernoica, my most heartfelt thanks neither this book, nor much else, would have been possible without you.