Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Isabel and Homer: A Double MemoirMary de Rachewiltz:
A Note on This EditionMary de Rachewiltz:
Editorial Note
Acknowledgements
Chronology
LETTERS
1: America 1895-1908 (nos. 1 - 152)
2: Gibraltar, Venice, London 1908-1911 (nos. 153-340)
3: London 1911-1914 (nos. 341-460)
4: War Years 1914-1918 (nos. 461-559)
5: London, Paris 1918-1924 (nos. 560-692)
6: Rapallo 1924-1929 (nos. 693-850)
Abbreviations
Glossary of Names
Index

About the Author

Mary de Rachewiltz, the daughter of Ezra Pound, was Curator of the Ezra Pound Archive in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, and has edited and translated into Italian his Cantos and much else of his poetry and prose. She is a published poet in her own right, as well as the translator into Italian of several American poets including Marianne Moore, E. E. Cummings, and Denise Levertov. A. David Moody is Professor emeritus of the
University of York. He is currently at work on a critical biography of Ezra Pound, of which the first volume was published by OUP in 2007.
Joanna Moody taught in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. She edited The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby, 1599-1605 and The Private Correspondence of Jane Lady Cornwallis Bacon.

Reviews

These letters back to 166 Fernbrook Avenue, Wyncote, Philadelphia, frequently make us acknowledge the great distance Pound travelled from his suburban origins in quest of a poetry capable of wrenching the American impulse into art.
*Mark Ford, London Review of Books*

excellently edited
*Clive Wilmer, Times Literary Supplement*

the content is extraordinary
*Clive Wilmer, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year*

These letters are full of sincerity, charm and vivid pugnacious living.
*Telegraph*

The collection will be an invaluable resource for Pound scholars
*Helen Carr, Wall Street Journal*

admirably edited
*Literary Review*