Pound (Ezra) papers, 1911-1949

Summary

Title:

Ezra Pound papers

Dates:

1911-1949

Creators:

Pound, Ezra

Abstract:

Ezra Pound (1885-1972) was a poet, translator, and a representative for Poetry magazine, and PThe little review. His published works include PA lume spento (1908), Homage to Sextus Propertius (1917), and Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (1920). The collection contains Pound's correspondence with E.W. Titus, letters to various persons, corrected proofs of poems, typescripts, and issues of The Pound newsletter.

Extent:

1.0 linear feet (2 boxes)

Language:

Materials are in English.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Ezra Pound Papers (Collection 636). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

Scope and content:

Collection contains Pound correspondence with E.W. Titus, letters to various persons, corrected proofs of poems published in The little review, proofs of Certain noble plays of Japan with holograph corrections, typescript drafts of cantos xii and xiii, typescripts of the Noh stories, Moon madness and The rabbit's house, and ephemera. Also contains numbers 1-10 of The Pound newsletter and two reels of microfilm containing If this be treason... [n.p., c.1948] and The cantos of Ezra Pound.

Biographical / historical:

Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho on October 30, 1885; attended the University of Pennsylvania and Hamilton College; taught romance philology at Wabash College; left for Europe; in 1908 his first book of verse, A lume spento, was published; lived in London from 1908-20, where he published translations of Italian and Provençal poetry and adaptations from Chinese poems; published Homage to Sextus Propertius (1917) and Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (1920); served as London representative for Poetry magazine, and for The little review; began to write The cantos, the first of which was published in 1925; moved to Paris in 1920, and to Rapallo, Italy five years later; made pro-Fascist broadcasts from Italy after the U.S. declared war; was indicted for treason, held at a detention center in Pisa in 1945, and was transferred to St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the criminally insane in Washington, D.C. in 1946; awarded the Bollingen Prize for poetry in 1949; returned to Italy after his release in 1958; he died in Venice on November 1, 1972.

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Physical location:

Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Related resources

Related material:

• Jaime de Angulo Papers (Collection 160). Available at UCLA Library Special Collections. (Letters to de Angulo in Box 2).
• Earl Roy Miner Papers (Collection 821). Available at UCLA Library Special Collections. (Letters to Miner in Box 1).
• Harold Monro Papers (Collection 745). UCLA Library Special Collections. (Letters to Monro in Box 2).
• Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Collection 100). UCLA Library Special Collections. (Letters to Frederic Manning in Box 101). (Letter to Cyril M. Schneider about Nathaniel West in Box 36).
• Peter Russell Papers (Collection 921). UCLA Library Special Collections. (Letters to Edgar Jepson, and E. Pound ephemera in Box 1).

Other descriptive data:

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 9942336093606533

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Poets, American -- 20th century -- Archives
Microfilms.

Names:

Pound, Ezra -- Archives

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:

Finding aid prepared by Manuscripts Division staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.

Date Encoded:

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-02-06 13:47:00 -0800 .

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Ezra Pound Papers (Collection 636). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Location of this collection:

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