Pound, Ezra

Typed letter with autograph additions, 2 pages (11 1/2 x 9 ins; 290 x 230 mm) on Pound's Rapallo letterhead stationery, Rapallo, 3 December, Anno XII (1934) to Guy Hickok, on publishing in "Abloodymerica" and his Brit "booblishers." [With:] Typed letter ("E.P.") 1 page (10 1/2 x 8 1/4 ins; 270 x 210 mm) Rapallo, nd, to Charlotte on the problems of her prose and recommending she read Guy Hickok, Hemingway ("sometimes Ok but often overshoots the mark") and Ford Maddox Ford ("apparent simplicity and and lack of style is the result of such a tremendous amount of technique ...") Few short, clean edge tears, a little minor creasing.

 

Pound wants a new  abc of reading  for America and mentions sending "ten more cantos." In a lively, profane letter rife with his unique syntax, Pound writes  to Brooklyn Eagle correspondent Guy Hickok, he complains of writing letters "then yet again and a bloody again things I have already said properly in How to Read ..." He touches on American politics "Shd like any nooz of Senator Bankhead. ... seems about the most enlightened member of that body (or corpse)."  He also provides William Carlos  Williams' address ("Ole Bill Willyumz") in New Jersey.