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End to torment : a memoir of Ezra Pound

Title
End to torment : a memoir of Ezra Pound / by H.D. ; edited by Norman Holmes Pearson and Michael King ; with the poems from "Hilda's book" by Ezra Pound.
Author
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961.
Publication
New York : New Directions Pub. Corp., 1979.

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Additional Authors
  • Pearson, Norman Holmes, 1909-1975.
  • King, Michael, 1950-
  • Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
  • Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
  • Huston, Gertrude, 1919-1998
  • New Directions Publishing, publisher
  • Murray Printing Company, printer
  • James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints
Description
xii, 84 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.
Summary
End to Torment: A Memoir of Ezra Pound is the deeply personal journal kept by the poet H. D. (Hilda Doolittle. 1886-1961) in 1958, the year Ezra Pound was released from St. Elizabeth's in Washington, D.C., and returned to Italy. H. D., hospitalized in Switzerland from a fall, was urged to put down on paper, once and for all, her memories of Pound, which reached back to 1905, when she was a freshman at Bryn Mawr and he a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. They had been engaged for a period, and what began as a brief romance developed into a lifetime's friendship and collaboration in poetry. Throughout the reminiscence runs H. D's conviction that her life and Pound's had been irrevocably entwined since those early days when they had walked together in the Pennsylvania woods and he wrote for her verse after William Morris, Rossetti, Swinburne, and Chaucer. Twenty-five of these poems, handbound in vellum by Pound and called "Hilda's Book," are published here for the first time as an epilogue to this important and moving document. Publisher's note.
Series Statement
  • A new directions book
  • New Directions paperbook ; NDP476
Subject
  • Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
  • H. D. 1886-1961 > Friends and associates
  • H. D. 1886-1961
  • 1900-1999
  • Poets, American > 20th century > Biography
  • Friendship
  • Poets, American
  • Friendships
  • Friends and associates
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • Dust jackets (Binding) – New York (State) – New York – 1979.
Note
  • "A New Directions book" -- title page.
  • "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Indexed In (note)
  • Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin
Audience (note)
  • 1060L
Binding (note)
  • bound in publishers' green cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Gertrude Huston.
  • bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Gertrude Huston.
Contents
Hilda's book / Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
Call Number
Berg Coll 22-969
ISBN
  • 0811207196
  • 9780811207195
  • 081120720X
  • 9780811207201
LCCN
  • 78027149
  • x280720636
OCLC
4491639
Author
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961.
Title
End to torment : a memoir of Ezra Pound / by H.D. ; edited by Norman Holmes Pearson and Michael King ; with the poems from "Hilda's book" by Ezra Pound.
Imprint
New York : New Directions Pub. Corp., 1979.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
A new directions book
New Directions paperbook ; NDP476
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Indexed In:
Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 97
Audience
1060L Lexile
Binding
Copy in Berg Coll 22-969 bound in publishers' green cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Gertrude Huston. NN
Copy in Berg Coll 22-970, bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Gertrude Huston. NN
Local Note
Copy in Berg Coll 22-969, 22-970 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.
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Chronological Term
1900-1999
Added Author
Pearson, Norman Holmes, 1909-1975.
King, Michael, 1950-
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972. Hilda's book.
Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.
Huston, Gertrude, 1919-1998, cover designer, bookjacket designer.
New Directions Publishing, publisher.
Murray Printing Company, printer.
Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.
Javitch, Daniel, donor.
Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.
James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.
Other Form:
Online version: H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961. End to torment. New York : New Directions Pub. Corp., 1979 (OCoLC)809525088
Other Standard Identifier
x280720636
Research Call Number
Berg Coll 22-969
Berg Coll 22-970
JFD 79-10623
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