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Gilman, Lawrence (incl. Ezra Pound to Gilman), Edith Franklin Wyatt incoming correspondence, etc., 1952-1955

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Open book Gilman, Lawrence (incl. Ezra Pound to Gilman), Edith Franklin Wyatt incoming correspondence, etc., 1952-1955

Title Gilman, Lawrence (incl. Ezra Pound to Gilman), Edith Franklin Wyatt incoming correspondence, etc., 1952-1955

Creator Wyatt, Edith, 1873-1958

Date 1952-1955

Language English

Subjects Social action

Description Correspondence of Chicago writer and social activist Edith Franklin Wyatt, plus drafts of works, contracts, scrapbooks, clippings and mementos.

Format Correspondence

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and I hope to god I shall never be such a fool as to expect accurate treatment from a man of your generation who has been connected with publications; but I should like to ask you what the hell you think you gain and what good you expect to do American literature or American criticism by printing such a jumble of utter inaccuracy as your "Adventures of a Poetry Reader?
As for statement on your p. 413 you can see by p. 57 of the Little Review for March 1918 that it is simply a common or garden lie and the authoress a plain and simple perpetrator of said mode of expression.
I dont want any publicity out of you, I dont suggest that you even publish this hasty epistle: and far be it from me to indicate that any allowance is to be made for my ten years interrupted analysis of the Provencal, Greek and Anglo-Saxon metric and tonalities. As a mere writer on politics, the idea that accurate thought should be wasted on so trifling a thing as literature may annoy you but I should like an answer, a simple or even an elaborate answer to the question, what good are you doing either either literature or your public or your magazine by this sort of buncomb?
I don't want to write for you, I don't care a curse whether you print the small amount of contemporary writing which is destined to live but I would like five minutes of mental honesty from you on the subject of literature
Sincerely yours
(signed) Ezra Pound

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Archival Collection Title Edith Franklin Wyatt papers

Link to Catalog View finding aid | View record

Call Number Midwet MS Wyatt Box 1 Folder 18

BibID 991696368805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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