James Laughlin, New Directions Press, and the Remaking of Ezra Pound
(Part of the Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book Series)
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Although James Laughlin (1914-1997) came from one of Pittsburgh's leading steel-making families, his passions were literary rather than industrial--he wanted to be a poet. Laughlin was a freshman at Harvard when he traveled to Rapallo, Italy, in 1933 to meet Ezra Pound (1885-1972), and he returned the following year to enroll in the poet's "Ezuversity." Pound dismissed Laughlin's poetic talents, advising the wealthy young man to make himself over...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1558494782
ISBN13:9781558494787
Release Date:April 2005
Publisher:University of Massachusetts Press
Length:296 Pages
Weight:1.40 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"
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