Parker Tyler Correspondence from Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams (Ms.79.13)

Biographical note

Parker Tyler was born in New Orleans in 1907 and began his career as a poet, biographer, and film and literary critic while still in his early twenties.

His poetry was first anthologized by Ezra Pound in 1933, and major works written during the thirty-year period which this collection covers include Three Examples of Love Poetry (1936), The Metaphor in the Jungle (1940), Yesterday's Children, with Pavel Tchelitchew (1944), and Charlie Chaplin (1947).

Tyler served as associate editor of View magazine during the 1940s and 1950s, and in 1958 received the Longview Award for his poetry. His more recent works have consisted of biographies and collections of film criticism, including a 1972 study of Charlie Chaplin.

He died in 1974.