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XXIVth Ezra Pound International Conference

 

Ezra Pound and London

 

 

Institute for English Studies, University of London,

Senate House

London, England

July 5-9, 2011

 

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(Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1914)*

 

 

 

and the Serpentine will look just the same

and the gulls be as neat on the pond

and the sunken garden unchanged

and God knows what else is left of our London

                 my London, your London

                                                            (Canto LXXX)


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School for Advanced Study, Institute for English Studies http://ies.sas.ac.uk/

 

University of New Orleans

Ezra Pound Center for Literature

http://lowres.uno.edu/brunnenburg/

Department of English

http://english.uno.edu/

 

London Cantos Reading Group

 

Conference Website

Conference Second Page

 

Conference Staff

 

Co-Conveners

John Gery, University of New Orleans

Richard Parker, University of Sussex

 

Conference Advisory Board

Massimo Bacigalupo, Universit di Genova

Walter Baumann, University of Ulster

Helen Carr, University of London

Helen May Dennis, University of Warwick

John Gery, University of New Orleans (Secretary)

Alan Golding, University of Louisville

David Moody, University of York

Richard Parker, University of Sussex

William Pratt, Miami University of Ohio

Caterina Ricciardi, Universit di Roma Tre

 

Institute For English Studies, University of London

 

Jon Millington, Events Officer

 

University of New Orleans

 

Kelly Anne Jones, Ezra Pound Center Associate

William Lavender, Program Consultant & Webmaster

Kari Shisler, Ezra Pound Center Associate

 

London Cantos Reading Group Steering Committee

 

 

 

 

2011 Conference Team

 

 

 

Anthony Dunn, University of Portsmouth

Helen Carr, University of London

Rebecca Beasley, Oxford University

Stephen Fender, University of Sussex

Stoddard Martin, Independent Scholar, Institute for English Studies

 

Alexander Howard, University of Sussex

Jessica Pujol Duran, University College London

David Barnes, Queen Mary

 


24th Ezra Pound International Conference London

 

 

Monday, July 4, 2011

                                                                                                                                               

SPECIAL EVENT: Pre-Conference Trip to Kettles Yard (sign-up required):

 

12:45 pm [prompt]: Meet at Kings Cross station.  Train to Cambridge.

1:15 pm:  Train from Kings Cross to Cambridge. (price of train not included in 3 excursion fee)

2:01 pm:  Arrive Cambridge, make way from train station to Kettles Yard Gallery

3:00 pm:  Kettles Yard: 45-minute talk on Henri Gaudier-Brzeska by Sebastiano Barrassi. (Those who may want to see more of Cambridge earlier in the day may opt to rendezvous with the group at Kettles Yard at 3:00 pm.)

3:45 pm:  Tour of Kettles Yard collection

5:00 pm:  Return by train to Kings Cross station, London.

 

To contact tour group by mobile phone, call Richard Parker, +44 (0) 7958 647 382

 

 

 

 

 

 

10 Church Walk, Kensington

(Photo: Walter Baumann)
24th Ezra Pound International Conference London

 

 

Tuesday, 5 July

 

SPECIAL EVENT: Three Walking Tours of Pounds Kensington and Bloomsbury

 

10:00 am-1:00 pm: First Walking Tour, conducted by Robert Richardson, Co-editor (with William Pratt), Homage to Imagism. Group will meet at 10:00 am outside High Street Kensington tube** for tour of Pound sites in Kensington, then travel by tube to Bloomsbury for a tour of sites there. (Limited to 15. Sign-up required.).

 

12:30-5:00 pm: Second Walking Tour, conducted by Diana Collecott, University of Durham. Group will meet at 12:30 pm outside High Street Kensington tube** for tour of Pound sites in Kensington, then travel by tube to Bloomsbury for a tour of sites there. Includes lunch break in Kensington. Those wishing to attend solely the Bloomsbury portion of the tour should meet Diana at Tottenham Court tube station++ at 3:00 pm. After the tour, Diana will escort the group to the Cheshire Cheese for the conference reception. (Limited to 15. Sign-up required.).

 

3:00-6:00 pm: Third Walking Tour, conducted by Robert Richardson. Group will meet at 3:00 pm outside High Street Kensington tube** for tour of Pound sites in Kensington, then travel by tube to Bloomsbury for a tour of sites there. After the tour, Robert will escort the group to the Cheshire Cheese for the conference reception. (Limited to 15. Sign-up required.).

 

**Kensington Meeting Point (10am, 12:30pm, 3:00pm): High Street Kensington underground station (Circle and District lines); outside the exit on Kensington High Street, South side --at street entrance to Shopping Arcade. Look for Robert or Diana holding an identifying sign.

 

++Bloomsbury Meeting Point (3:00pm): Tottenham Court Road underground station (Central line; please note currently closed to Northern line); outside the exit marked 'Oxford Street/Tottenham Court Road' -- on the opposite side of the road from the Dominion Cinema. Look for Diana holding an identifying sign.

 

To contact tour group by mobile phone, call Richard Parker, +44 (0) 7958 647 382

(Depending on interest, a repeat tour of Bloomsbury may be arranged for

 Saturday, 9 July, 5:30 pm.)

 

 

SPECIAL EVENT: Pre-Conference Reception:

 

6.00-10.30 pm:  Welcome Reception for the 24th EPIC at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese

LOCATION: Williams Room, Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, Wine Office Court, 145 Fleet Street. Cash Bar.


Sunken Garden, Kensington Palace (photo: Walter Baumann)

 

 

The petals fall in the fountain,

            the orange-coloured rose-leaves,

Their ochre clings to the stone.

                                                (Tsai Chih)

 

      St. Mary Abbots, Kensington (photo: Richard Parker)                                                         (Tsai Chih)
24th Ezra Pound International Conference London

 

Institute for English Studies, University of London

Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

 

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

 

 

9:00 am -5:00 pm:  Registration in Senate House Main Foyer

 

9:15-9:30 am: Welcome and Opening Remarks

 

9:30-10:45 am:

1. Opening Plenary Session                    Chair: Helen Carr, University of London

Mary de Rachewiltz, Brunnenburg, Italy: Il nemico l'ignoranza (mine): THE ENEMY IS IGNORANCE

Peter Rudge, Norfolk, UK: Family Relations

Emily Mitchell Wallace, Bryn Mawr College, Ezra Pounds Hail and Farewell to the London Vortex: Love and the Comfort of Friendship Before and After The Great War

           

10:45-11:15 am: Coffee Break

 

11:15 am -12:30 pm:

2A. Pound and the Victorians                 Chair: Dorsey Kleitz, Tokyo Womans Christian University

Laura Kilbride, Cambridge University: Priest of the Old Gods I,/ Priest of the Gods that die: Swinburne, Free-verse and the Impossibility of The Return in Pounds Early Poetry

Stefano Maria Casella, Libera Universit di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM, Milan: An Impossible Idyll: Pound and Tennyson

Desmond Egan, Gerard Manley Hopkins International Festival: Gerard Manley Hopkins, Ezra Pound and the Modernists

 

2B. Pound in London I: Matthews, Binyon, Cournos   Chair:  Massimo Bacigalupo, Universit di Genova

Barry Ahearn, Tulane University: Pound and Elkin Matthews

Frederick Morel and Marysa Demoor, Ghent University: Ezra Pound and Laurence Binyon: An Understudied Influence

Angelina Carione, Cumberland County College: In Pounds Shadow: A Look at the Relationship between John Cournos and Ezra Pound

 

2C. Pounds Early Poetics                                  Chair: Anthony Dunn, University of Portsmouth

Adrian Paterson, National University of Ireland, Galway: Come my cantilations: Pound, Music, and London

Alex Pestell, University of Sussex: Thoughts in your verse barrel: Ezra Pounds Metrical Experiments

Michael Kindellan, University of Sussex: Pounds Sincerity      

 

12:30-2:00 pm: Lunch at IES

 

2:00-3:15 pm:

3A. London in The Pisan Cantos                        Chair: Walter Baumann, University of Ulster

William Pratt, Miami University of Ohio: Odi et Amo: Mauberley and The Pisan Cantos

Jack Baker, Durham University: Only shadows enter my tent: Residues of London in The Pisan Cantos

Gavin Selerie, University of London: And now, why?; London Ghosts and Their Haunts

 

3B. Pound in London II: Orage, The New Age and Upward     Chair: Alec Marsh, Muhlenberg College

Adam Trexler, University of Exeter: Pounds Troubadour Hands: Crafting I Gather the Limbs of Osiris in the London Scene

Samuel Simmons, Balvenie Global Ambassador: Exile in London: Ezra Pound and The New Age

Mick Sheldon, Independent Scholar, Manchester, UK: Allen Upward, Life, Work and Reputation -- London 1913/14

 

3C. Pound as Translator                        Chair: Dirceu Villa, University of So Paulo

Svetlana Nedeljkov, University of Belgrade: Stearn: stern - Pounds Translation Techniques in The Seafarer

James A Wilson, University of California at Santa Cruz: Cabaret of the Gods

Giovanna Epifania, Universit di Bari: Because no hope is left me: Pounds Translation as a Sign of Exile

 

3:15-3:45 pm: Coffee Break

 

3:45-5:00 pm:

4A. The New Edition of the Pisan Cantos: An Introduction Chair: Catherine E. Paul, Clemson University

Ronald Bush, University of Oxford

David Ten Eyck, Universit Nancy 2

Respondents: Kenneth Haynes, Brown University, and others

 

4B. Pound in London III: Poetics of Imagism    Chair: Michael Copp, Independent Scholar, Suffolk, UK

Justin Kishbaugh, Duquesne University: Curatorial Images: The Influence of the British Museum on Ezra Pounds Imagism

Rama Kundu, Burdwan University: Pounds One Image Poems: A Study of the Poets Swerve from the Japanese Model

Maristella Trulli, Universit di Bari: The movement that I, Eliot, Joyce and others started in London would not have existed but for Futurism: From Imagist to Futurist London

 

4C. Pound and the Occult                      Chair: Peter Liebregts, Leiden University

Steven Quincey-Jones, University of London: Mystical Modernism: Ezra Pound and The Egoist

Giuliana Ferreccio, Universit di Torino: Ezra Pound: from London to Germany by Novalis

 

5:00 pm: Wine Reception, Senate House Foyer

 

7:00-9:00 pm:  SPECIAL EVENT: Contemporary British Poetry in the Poundian Tradition

                             LOCATION: The Poetry Library, Royal Festival Hall, London SE1 8XX

Readings and talks by Keston Sutherland and Tim Atkins. Free, though places are limited.

 

Dinner on Your Own


24th Ezra Pound International Conference London

 

Institute for English Studies, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

 

 

Thursday, July 7, 2011

 

 

9:00 am -5:00 pm:  Registration in Senate House Main Foyer

 

9:30-10:45 am:

5A. Pound, Fenollosa and Noh Drama    Chair: Rka Mihlka, Etvs Lornd University

Anne Conover, Independent Scholar, Washington, D.C.: Ezra Pound, Confucius and the Fenollosa Notebooks: The very real principle of Modernism

Akitoshi Nagahata, Nagoya University: Revisiting the Fenollosa Manuscripts in The Japan Times: Pounds Language of Nostalgia and International Affairs

Richard Taylor, Universitaet Bayreuth: Noh Drama and Its Assimilation in the West: Weil-Britten- Pound

 

5B. Pound in London IV: Pound and the Visual Arts   Chair: Rebecca Beasley, University of Oxford

Jo Brantley Berryman, California Institute of the Arts: What Else Is Left: Pound and the Influence of Hokusai

Ira B. Nadel, University of British Columbia: Picasso and Pound

Stephen Romer, University of Tours: Buildings: Ornamentation!: Pounds Architectural Walk-abouts in London

 

5C. Pound in London V: Pound in Exile            Chair: Justin Kishbaugh, Duquesne University

David Cappella, Central Connecticut State University:  Shall two know the same in their knowing: The Aesthetic Skirmish Underlying Pounds London Clash with Robert Frost

Georgina Willms, Point Park University: Ezra Pound the Ex-Pat in London during the Great War

Kevin Kiely, University College Dublin: Pound and the American Artist in Exile

 

10:45-11:15 am: Coffee Break

 

11:15 am -12:30 pm:

6A. Pound and Japan                            Chair: Mark Byron, University of Sydney

David Ewick, Tokyo Womans Christian University: Are You in the Nō? The Symbolic Drama of Japan, Ages Old, Mystic, Aristocratic, Has Made Fashionable London Its Own: A Cultural History of Itō, Kume, Kori, Pound, and Yeats

Tateo Imamura, Tokyo Womans Christian University: Hemingway, Pound, and the Japanese Artist Tamijuro Kume

Dorsey Kleitz, Tokyo Womans Christian University: The Noh Vortex: Ito, Pound, Yeats, and At the Hawks Well

     

6B. Pound in London VI: Imagist Antagonisms   Chair: William Pratt, Miami University of Ohio

Andy Trevathan, University of Arkansas: Works of Art Beget Works of Art: Pound, Yeats and Imagism

Michael Copp, Independent Scholar, Suffolk, UK: Versions and Animadversions: Pound and the Imagist Circle

Alice Cheylan, Universit du Sud Toulon-Var: Amy Lowells European Experience

 

6C. Pound and Geography                     Chair: Helen May Dennis, University of Warwick

David Barnes, University of London: Baedekers and Continents: Pound, Henry James and Geography

Eric White, Oxford Brookes University: The Missing Baedeker: Modernist Poetics and the Early Travel Writing of Pound and Williams

Demetres P. Tryphonopoulas, University of New Brunswick: Castalia is the name of that fount in the hills fold: Ezra Pounds 1965 Trip to Greece

 

12:30-2:00 pm: Lunch (on your own)

 

2:00-3:15 pm:

7A. Pound and Cathay                          Chair: Stoddard Martin, University of London

Guiming Wang, Beijing Institute of Technology:  On the Shaping of Cathay -- An Unusual Communion of Minds: The Poetic Sensibility of Ezra Pound and Li Po

Zoran Skrobanovic, University of Belgrade: Reinventing China in London: Pounds Cathay

Joshua Kotin, University of Chicago: Reading Ezra Pound in Chinese

 

7B. Pound in London VII: Confluences of Vorticism   Chair: Francesca Cadel, University of Calgary

Karlien Van Den Beukel, London South Bank University: Ezra Pound and Modern Dance in London 1910-1920

Hsiu-ling Lin, National Taiwan University: Vorticism and Chinese Art: Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Jacob Epstein and Alvin Langdon Coburn

Roxana Preda, University of Edinburgh: A Broken Bundle of Mirrors -- An Exploration of Ezra Pounds Vorticist Portraiture

 

7C. Pound in London VIII: Pound and Women Chair: Yoshiko Kita, Japans Womens University

Biljana Obradović, Xavier University of Louisiana: Young Editors in Dispute: The Relationship between Ezra Pound and Rebecca West around the New Freewoman

Diana Collecott, University of Durham: Women of 1914: Their Works & Networks in Literary London during World War One

David Roessel, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey: Aegina: An Unpublished Short Story by H.D. (A Performance with an Introduction)

 

3:15-3:45 pm: Coffee Break

 

3:45-5:15 pm: SPECIAL EVENT: Sons of Ezra

8. Sons of Ezra                                      Chair: Alan Golding, University of Louisville         

W.S. Milne, Independent Scholar: Ezra Pound and Agenda Magazine

Michael Alexander, University of St. Andrews: Peter Whigham (1925-87): A Son of Ezra

Keith Tuma, Miami University of Ohio: Revisiting the Sons (and Daughters) of Ezra Pound

John Gery, University of New Orleans: Scaled Invention and True Artistry: Davies Pound and Pounds Davie

 

5:30-7:00 pm:   SPECIAL EVENT: EPIC-London Poetry Reading, Senate House

Poets: Mary de Rachewiltz, Desmond Egan, John Gery, Jeffrey Grieneisen, Kevin Kiely, Daniel M. Mancini, Biljana Obradović, Richard Parker, Stephen Romer, Gavin Selerie, Ron Smith, Julian Stannard, Dirceu Villa, and others

 

Dinner on Your Own

 


Let me be free of pavements,

Let me be free of the printers.

Let come beautiful people

Wearing raw silk of good colour,

Let come the graceful speakers,

Let come the ready of wit.

                        (Come, My Cantellations)

                       

5 Holland Chambers, Kensington (Photo: Richard Parker)


24th Ezra Pound International Conference London

 

Institute for English Studies, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

 

 

Friday, July 8, 2011

 

 

9:00 am -5:00 pm:  Registration in Senate House Main Foyer

 

9:30-10:45 am:

9A. Pound in London IX: Mauberley      Chair: Jo Brantley Berryman, California Institute of the Arts

Andrew Frayn, University of Manchester: Mauberley, Disenchantment, and the First World War

Shinj Watanabe, Rikkyo University: Pound and the Tradition of American Poetry: Re-Examination of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

Massimo Bacigalupo, Universit di Genova: W.B. Yeats in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

 

9B. Pound and Bunting                         Chair:  Michael Kindellan, University of Sussex

Charlotte Estrade, Universit du Maine: London as Ambivalent Place and Symbol: Parallels and Dialogue in Ezra Pound and Basil Bunting

Julian Stannard, University of Winchester: Basil Buntings Metropolitan Shudder

Annabel Haynes, Durham University: The Politics of Poetics and Artifice in Basil Bunting and Ezra Pound

 

9C. Pound and the Classics                    Chair: A. David Moody, University of York

Walter Baumann, University of Ulster: (as seen by Mackail): Ezra Pounds Classics Guru, John William Mackail (1859 – 1945)

Leah Flack, Marquette University:  Slinging in Licherary Langwidg: Pound, W. H. D. Rouse, and a Modern Odyssey

Peter Liebregts, Leiden University: Wrestling with Verbiage: Ezra Pound and Aeschylus

 

10:45-11:15 am: Coffee Break

 

11:15 am -12:30 pm:

10A. Noh Drama                                    Chair: Evelyn Haller, Doane College

Yoshiko Kita, Japans Womens University: Pounds Noh Translation and Dancing

Rka Mihlka, Etvs Lornd University: Reconstructing a Reconstruction: Ezra Pounds De Musset Text

Mohit Ray, Burdwan University: Pounds Tristan: A Noh Play

 

10B. Pound Out of London in the 1930s Chair: David Barnes, University of London

Andr Naffis-Sahely, University of Leicester: The Poet of Titchfield Street

Miranda Hickman, McGill University: Epistolary Access: The Impact of London on Pound of the 1930s

Wayne Pounds, Aoyama Gakuin University: Pound and the Coward Surrealists: Some Delicate Friendships

 

10C. Pound and the Roman Poets           Chair: Caterina Ricciardi, Universit di Roma Tre

Christine Froula, Northwestern University: London 1917: Pound, Possum, and Propertius on War and Empire

Gregory Baker, Brown University: in the stink of London 1919: Mauberley & Pounds London Reception of Roman Poetry

Sebastian Momtazi, Kings College, London: A Carmen in a Canto: A New Source for the Opening Canto

 

12:30-2:00 pm: Lunch (on your own)

 

2:00-3:15 pm:

11A. Melopoeic Excursions                     Chair: Stephen Romer, University of Tours

Alexander Niven, Oxford University: Strugglers in the desert: The Musical Divagations of Pound and Bunting, and the Creation of a Live Tradition before and after World War II

Helen May Dennis, University of Warwick: Pounds Influence: Emotion, Form, Music, Sound

Lucile Dumont, Sorbonne Nouvelle: Conversing with Paradise: Elliott Carters Musical Reading of Ezra Pounds Cantos

 

11B. Studies in The Cantos                    Chair: Stephen Wilson, Univesidade de Coimbra

Sean Pryor, University of New South Wales: The Drafts of Canto 49: Pound and the Lyric

Michael Biondi, The Moraitis School, Athens: Up and Adams, Part II: John Adams London Periplum

Stoddard Martin, University of London: Apostle of Light: Contrasts of Light in The Cantos

 

11C. Pound and Modernist Thought   Chair: Demetres P. Tryphonopoulas, University of New Brunswick

Vincent Sherry, Washington University in St. Louis: The Codes of Decadence: Modernism and Its Discontents

David Ayers, University of Kent: Exceeding English: Pound, Ignorance and Transnational Alterities

Mark Byron, University of Sydney: Centres and Peripheries: Topoi of Culture and Power in Pounds Thought

 

3:15-3:45 pm: Coffee Break

 

3: 45-5:15 pm:

12A. Pounds American Politics              Chair: Anderson Araujo, American University of Sharjah

Christa Fratantoro, F.A. Davis Publishers: Pound and the Poet of the New Deal: Pounds Correspondence with MacLeish in the 1930s

Alec Marsh, Muhlenberg College: Ezra Pounds Affiliations with the American Far Right

Courtney Ruffner, State College of Florida: The Cost of Silence: How History and Economics Lead Us to Ezra Pounds Aesthetics

 

12B. Approaches to The Pisan Cantos     Chair: Akitoshi Nagahata, Nagoya University

Daniel Alipaz, University College Falmouth: Pound and Bergsonian Memory: A Reading of The Pisan Cantos

Trevor Sawler, St. Thomas University (New Brunswick): Teaching Pound Teaching: Pedagogy, Poetics, and Propaganda in The Pisan Cantos

Sr Sophy Pereppadan, Prajyoti Niketan College: Canto 74: Paradisal Motif in Purgatario

 

12C. Pound and Theory                         Chair: Roxana Preda, University of Edinburgh

Janna Kantola, University of Helsinki: Pounds Life-long Poem: On the Narrative Element in The Cantos

Vclav Paris, University of Pennsylvania: Pound and Benjamin; London and Paris

Aaron Jaffe, University of Louisville: Thinking about Language with Pound and Benjamin

 

5:30-6:00 pm:  SPECIAL EVENT: Canto 116 by Ezra Pound: A short film.

bernard dew, Toronto, Ontario

 

6:00 pm: Wine reception, Senate House Foyer

 

8:00-10:30 pm:  SPECIAL EVENT: Conference Banquet at Elenas LEtoile, 30 Charlotte Street (sign-up required)  


24th Ezra Pound International Conference London

 

Institute for English Studies, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

 

 

Saturday, July 9, 2011

 

 

9:00 am -12:00 pm:  Registration in Senate House Main Foyer

 

9:30-10:45 am:

13A. Pound in Comparison: Fashion and Joyce   Chair: Christine Froula, Northwestern University

Evelyn Haller, Doane College: Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down!: A Comparative Study of Pound and the Fashion Houses of Charles Worth and Jeanne Paquin

Krista Rascoe, University of Texas at Dallas: Pound and Joyce: Toward Creating Ulysses

Hannu Riikonen, University of Helsinki: Pound, Joyce, and the British Empire

 

13B. Pound and Later American Poets    Chair: Barry Ahearn, Tulane University

Richard Parker, University of Sussex: Ezra Pounds London / Louis Zukofskys London

Jeff Grieneisen, State College of Florida: Deep Roots: Ezra Pounds Influence on Deep-Image Poet James Wright

Alan Golding, University of Louisville: Drafts and Fragments: Rachel Blau DuPlessis (Counter-)Poundian Project

 

13C. Pound and/on War                                    Chair: Sean Pryor, University of New South Wales

Stewart Donovan, Saint Thomas University (New Brunswick): Ezra Pound, John McRae and the Triumph of the Cenotaphs; or, Amnesia and Empire: Re-writing the battered books for Nationhood

Stephen Wilson, Univesidade de Coimbra: Ezra Pound, Belligerent

Francesca Cadel, University of Calgary: Diptych Rome-London -- An Itinerary

 

10:45-11:15 am: Coffee Break

 

11:15 am -12:30 pm:

14A. Pound and Eliot                                   Chair: Stefano Maria Casella, Libera Universit di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM, Milan

Anthony Dunn, University of Portsmouth:  London Literary Lives: The Early Years of Pound and Eliot

Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec, Universit de Caen: The Hand of il miglior fabbro in Establishing the Poetic Reputation of T.S. Eliot

Wim Van-Mierlo, University of London: Pound-ing Eliot: Re-assessing The Waste Land Typescripts

 

14B. Pound and Later British Poets            Chair: Keith Tuma, University of Miami of Ohio

Gary Leising, Utica College: Little Cantos: The Influence of Ezra Pound on Geoffrey Hills Mercian Hymns

Gareth Farmer, Sussex University: Obstinate Isles: Veronica Forrest-Thomsons Unpublished Writing on Ezra Pound

Ryan Dobran, University of Cambridge: Obscurity and Contextual Intervals in the Poetry of Ezra Pound and J.H. Prynne

 

14C. Teaching Pound Teaching              Chair: John Gery, University of New Orleans

Mohammad Shaheen, University of Jordan: The Reception of Pounds The Return by Arab Students

Anderson Araujo, American University of Sharjah: Teaching Ezra Pound in Arabia Deserta

Susan Preston-Berlin, University of Connecticut Health Center: Team Teaching with Ezra Pound: Using Pounds Ideogrammic Method to Teach Human Evolution in an American University

 

12:30-1:45 pm: Lunch (on premises)

 

1:45-2:45 pm: SPECIAL EVENT: Roundtable on Ezra Pound in Context

15. Ezra Pound in Context                      Chair: Ira B. Nadel, University of British Columbia

Brief presentations by contributors to Ezra Pound in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2010), followed by an open discussion.

Panelists:; Massimo Bacigalupo, Universit di Genova; Rebecca Beasley, University of Oxford; Ronald Bush, University of Oxford; Demestres Tryphonopoulas, University of New Brunswick; and others

      

3:00-4:15 pm:

17. Closing Plenary Session:                   Chair: Richard Parker, University of Sussex

Helen Carr, University of London, Pound and Desmond FitzGerald

Catherine E. Paul, Clemson University: Poetry and Propaganda: Ezra Pound in H.D.s End to Torment

David Moody, University of York: the f-word

 

4:15-5:15 pm: Business Meeting              Co-Chairs: Walter Baumann, University of Ulster

                                                                             John Gery, University of New Orleans

           

6:00 pm: SPECIAL EVENT: Reception with T.S. Eliot School (details to follow)

 

 

 

 

 


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Wyndham Lewis, Portrait of Ezra Pound

(1920), Pencil - 36 x 27 cm
London, National Portrait Gallery
Photo : The Estate of Mrs. G.A. Wyndham 
Lewis : The Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust

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Wyndham Lewis, Portrait of T.S. Eliot
Photo : All rights reserved

 

 



24th Ezra Pound International Conference London

 

 

Sunday-Monday, July 10-11, 2011

 

Post-Conference Excursion: Modernism in Sussex and Kent

 

Sunday, 10 July:

09:00 am [prompt]:  Meet at London Victoria for train to Haywards Heath (price for ticket not included in excursion fee)

09:27 am:  Train from Victoria to Haywards Heath

10:21 am:  Bus from Haywards heath to Colemans Hatch, via Wilfred Scawen Blunts Newbuildings

11:00 am:  Visit to Stone Cottage and Heath

12:00 pm:  Lunch at the Hatch Inn in Colemans Hatch (not included in excursion fee; price approx. 20 per head.) Option: bring a packed lunch to eat on the Heath

1:30 pm:  Depart Colemans Hatch by bus to Charleston

2:30 pm:  Visit to Charleston House

5:00 pm:  Bus to Lewes

7:00 pm: Thomas Paine walking tour of Lewes

8:00-10:00 pm: Dinner on your own. Overnight stay in Lewes: You will need to find a hotel in Lewes or to catch a train back to London and reconvene in the morning. Possible hotels include:

The White Hart (in the centre of town): http://www.whitehartlewes.co.uk/

Berkeley House Bed and Breakfast, http://www.berkeleyhouselewes.co.uk (70 for one person, 90 or two).

Or check this website:http://www.bedandbreakfast-directory.co.uk/results.asp?town=Lewes&county=East%20Sussex

                                                                        

Monday, 11 July:

10:00 am [prompt]:  Bus to Burwash (Those returning from London be at The White Hart in Lewes, 55 High Street, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1XE by 10:00 am)

10:45 am:  Visit to Rudyard Kiplings house, Batemans Lane, Burwash, East Sussex TN197DS.

12:30 pm:  Lunch at Batemans (included in excursion fee)

1:00 pm:  Bus to Winchelsea

2:20 pm:  Visit to Ford Madox Fords The Bungalow and Joseph Conrads Greystones in Winchelsea

2:40 pm:  Bus to Rye

3:20 pm:  Arrive in Rye. Literary Walking Tour of Rye, including visits to see outside of Jeakes House and the Mens Club (Conrad Aikens homes), and Henry Jamess Lamb House

5:45 pm:  Excursion finishes.

6:26 pm:  Train from Rye to London Bridge (price for ticket not included in excursion fee). Some may wish to remain in Rye for dinner and take a later train.

To contact tour group by mobile phone, call Richard Parker, +44 (0) 7958 647 382


            Leicester Square

            (Photo: Walter Baumann)

 

                           Ade du Picadilly

                           Ade du Lesterplatz

Their works like cobwebs when the spider is gone

      encrust them with sun-shot crytstals

and in 40 years no one save old Bellotti

                  There is no darkness but ignorance

      had read the words on the pedestal

Things I cd/ tell you, he sd/ of Lady de X

and of how he caught the Caressors about to be

            Imperial coat tails

and only twice had recd 3 penny bits

            one from Rothschild and one from DeLara

and brought in about 2 ounces of saffron

for a risotto during that first so enormous war

               Jah, the Bards pedestal ist am Lesterplatz

in the city of London

but the trope is, as the accurate reader will have observed,

not to be found in Sam Johnsons edition

 

                                               (Canto LXXX)

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* Note: This drawing of Ezra Pound appeared in the 5 February 2010 edition of The Times Literary Supplement, with the following explanation: The above drawing of Ezra Pound by Henri Gaudier Breszka [sic] appears in the Bow-Wow Shop, the online international poetry forum and, according to the editor, Michael Glover, has never been published before. The owner lives in London and estimates that the drawing was made in 1914, shortly before Gaudiers death, possibly as one of the preparatory sketches for the famous white-marble hieratic head of the poet. It shows Pound at an uncharacteristic angle to his own character, Mr. Glover writes, revealing an unusual softness.  Only a few preparatory drawings are thought to have survived. The Bow-Wow Shop contains a grand amount of stuff, including poetry, stories and reviews.

(photo: Walter Baumann)