Record Number: 34278

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I have just seen the Pound pamphlet though Farrar & Rinehart never took the trouble to send me a copy. I think it looks fine and is a tribute not only to Mr. Pound but to the generosity of its writers. Did I, by the bye, ever express to you my admiration for your HAMLET? It is real a very great book, and my admiration is equally great. If you would tell your publishers to send me copies of your works it would give me great pleasure and I might possibly be of use to them. I ought to buy them myself but I never hear of them in Toulon so I can't.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 15 Apr 1933 and 1 May 1933

Country:

France

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Toulon
county: Var
specific address: Villa Paul, Chemin de la Calade, Cap Brun

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Ford Madox Ford

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

17 Dec 1873

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

Catholic

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

France

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Ezra Pound

Title:

The Cantos of Ezra Pound: Some Testimonials

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Pamphlet

Publication Details

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

34278

Source:

Print

Author:

Ford Madox Ford

Editor:

Richard M. Ludwig

Title:

Letters of Ford Madox Ford

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ

Date of Publication:

1965

Vol:

n/a

Page:

219

Additional Comments:

Ford to Archibald MacLeish, 1 May 1933

Citation:

Ford Madox Ford, Richard M. Ludwig (ed.), Letters of Ford Madox Ford, (Princeton, NJ, 1965), p. 219, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=34278, accessed: 20 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Authors contributing to this pamphlet, which was sent out with the American edition of 'Cantos', included Hemingway, Eliot, Joyce, Hugh Walpole, MacLeish, Edmund Wilson, William Carlos Willams, Allen Tate, 'H.D.' and Ford. Ford seems not to have received a copy, so it is unclear where in Toulon he read it. (See Max Saunders "Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life" vol 2, p.429.)