Table of Contents

Preface
List of Illustrations
Chronology
Part One: 1885-1911
1: Born in the USA
2: In a World of Books
3: First Poems: 1901-1908
4: Hell and Deliverance
5: Outward and Away
6: London 1908-1910
7: Patria Mia
Part Two: 1911-1920, LONDON
8: Prelude in Paris
9: 1911-1912: Settling in
10: In the Steps of the Troubadours
11: Stirring Things Up: 1912-1913
12: Going to War: 1913-1915
13: Shaping an Intelligence Unit: 1915-1916
14: Into Action: 1917-1918
15: Goodbye to England: 1919-1920
Abbreviations
Notes

Promotional Information

Winner of the 2015 Ezra Pound Society Book Prize

About the Author

A. David Moody is Professor Emeritus of the University of York and the author of the acclaimed Thomas Stearns Eliot: Poet.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition The story of Pound's early years is riveting, and well told by David Moody.'
Mark Ford, Financial Times Magazine
`The first volume of this grand opus is a significant event.'
Andrew Motion, Guardian Book of the Week
`Professor David Moody...here portrays the first half of this astonishing poet's astonishing life. It is an authoritative and discriminating account, built on thoroughgoing research.'
Michael Alexander, The Tablet
`Moody's fine biography... makes the young Ezra Pound newly impressive and newly appealing.'
Kevin Jackson, Sunday Times
`[Moody] marshals Pound's staggering output of poetry, prose and correspondence to excellent effect, and offers clear, perceptive commentary on it.'
The Economist
`Moody communicates the central truth of this odd, driven life: that Pound lived for poetry, and lived his life according to what he saw as its demands.'
Peter McDonald, Literary Review
`This exemplary biography illuminates and exposes [Pound] with his warts and contradictions intact.'
Andrew Biswell, THES
`a splendid volume'
Yorkshire Post
`A serious searching biography.'
The Scotsman
`wonderful first instalment of the Pound story... a very satisfying biography.'
Jonathan Wright, The Herald (Glasgow)
`Moody's detailed narrative...tries to recapture the excitingness and literary brilliance of the colourful young troubadour'
Stefan Collini, TLS
`David Moody's splendidly researched and well-written book is greatly needed. . . . Moody must now be considered among the best readers of modernist poetry. . . . If you wish to understand why Pound is so important, Mr Moody is the indispensable guide.
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Tim Redman, Dallas Morning News
`Moody's first volume . . . is absolutely luminous. I'm tempted to say that this, folks, is biography as it ought to be written - if you've gotta read one biography of a major modernist (who isn't Joyce or Zukofsky), of course, then Moody's is the ticket.
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Mark Scroggins