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Bradshaw, David, and James Smith.
"Ezra Pound, James Strachey Barnes ('The Italian Lord Haw-Haw') and Italian Fascism."
The Review of English Studies 64.266 (2013): 672-93. Oxford Journals Online. Web. 03 June 2014.
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Summary by Jared Young
In their article, Bradshaw and Smith aim to shed light on Pound’s propagandistic endeavors in Italy during WWII. To achieve that end, they offer readers a look into Pound’s activities through James Strachey Barnes’ life. Barnes, a friend and collaborator of Pound’s, also broadcast for Rome radio at that time.
The article, which is composed of three sections, stakes its claim that Pound had made major contributions to promote Italian Fascism, which the writers prove through his friendship with Barnes. After a brief introduction, the article moves into its two primary sections. The first focuses on Barnes’ biography and political efforts. The second section provides a detailed account of Pound and Barnes’ relationship. All this information creates a background for Pound’s political work during the least-known period of his life, 1943-45.
In section one, “A Paladin in the Making,” Bradshaw and Smith provide readers with Barnes’ personal history. The write
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Ezra Pound
American poet and critic (1885–1972)
"William Atheling" redirects here. For the author who wrote under the pen name William Atheling Jr., see James Blish.
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poemThe Cantos (c. 1917–1962).[1]
Pound's contribution to poetry began in the early 20th century with his role in developing Imagism, a movement stressing precision and economy of language. Working in London as foreign editor of several American literary magazines, he helped discover and shape the work of contemporaries such as H. D., Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, and James Joyce. He was responsible for the 1914 serialization of Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the 1915 publication of Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", and the serialization from 1918 of Joyce's Ulysses. Hemingway wrote in 1932 that, for poets born in the late 19th or early 20th century, not to be influenced by Pound would be "like passi
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