One of DM
's most appreciative readers was William Carlos Williams
. Williams, who had written for The New Freewoman, was fascinated by Marsden's egoist philosophy and was especially attentive to her commentary on...
Textual Features
Dora Marsden
A marked difference separating The New Freewoman from its predecessor was its increased literary content, at first secured mainly by Rebecca West
. West recruited Ezra Pound
to The New Freewoman after meeting him at...
The speech urged all Americans to use their democratic rights to bring down corrupt politicians, because the President eats dirt and excrement for the daily meals, likes it, and tries to force it on the...
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Sylvia Beach
Though the essays were solicited and overseen by Joyce
, SB
did much of the editorial work and designed the cover.
Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace, 1959.
Despite the claim that this New York publication is a second edition of the earlier London one, it is more usefully considered as a different book. This time there was no pretence that MM
was...
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Marianne Moore
White argues that Moore was essentially two separate poets, pre- and post-World War Two. She chooses to present the earlier one of the two, the poet whom Eliot
, Stevens
, Williams
, and Bishop
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Denise Levertov
Here DL
discusses in detail those poets she had found most vital for her own work: William Carlos Williams
, Robert Duncan
, and Rainer Maria Rilke
.