Parker Tyler Correspondence from Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams (Ms.79.13)
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Inventory
Series 1. Correspondence from Ezra Pound, 1930-[1937?]
14.0 items
| Container | Description | Date | ||
| Folder 1 | Correspondence 3.0 items Contents Note: Pound gives his opinion of the magazines Symposium and Pagany (25 December 1930). Defends writing article in Morada; describes life at Rapallo, Italy (17 Jan 1931). Pound, Ezra |
1930-1931 | ||
| Folder 2 | Correspondence 6.0 items Contents Note: Pound refers to inclusion of Tyler's poems from Profiles anthology (14 January). Criticizes contemporary poets, including Wallace Stevens and T.S. Eliot (14 January, 13-14 February, 19 March). Discusses poetry anthology he is about to edit for a London publisher; asks Tyler for poetry and suggestions (23 February). Announces receipt of poems by Tyler and Harold Rosenberg to be included in anthology (24 April). Pound, Ezra |
1933 | ||
| Folder 3 | Correspondence 5.0 items Contents Note: Broadside or proof of a published letter concerning "Volitionist Economics" (ca. 27 October 1934). Refers to Writers Union and Writer's Today publication (23 April, 13 May 1935). Criticizes Tyler's poem Arabesque (19 April [1937?]). Pound, Ezra |
[ca. 1934]-1935, [1937?] |
Series 2. Correspondence from William Carlos Williams, 1935-1959
28.0 items
| Container | Description | Date | ||
| Folder 4 | Correspondence 4.0 items Contents Note: Williams praises Tyler's poetry (15 and 21 March, 4 June 1935). Salutes the "excellence and seriousness" of the younger poet's "craftsmanship" and compares Tyler's poetic concerns with his own (23 July 1936). Williams, William Carlos |
1935-1936 | ||
| Folder 5 | Correspondence 6.0 items Contents Note: Agrees to write an unidentified article for one of Tyler's books and discusses Pavel Tchelitchew's works (20 May 1937). Refers to publication of his article about H. H. Lewis in New Masses and unwillingness of Partisan Review to publish his poems (29 December 1937). Speaks of his current writings, including In the Money and poems to be published in the Laughlin pamphlet series (8 September 1940). Discusses Tyler's writing; feels that Tyler's poems are approaching his own in their "diamantine clarity" and makes unfavorable mention of T.S. Eliot's poetry (10 September 1940). Williams, William Carlos |
1937-1938, 1940 | ||
| Folder 6 | Correspondence 4.0 items Contents Note: Discusses a collection of literary criticism by Tyler; analyzes works and poetic flaws of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot in detail and explains his view of the development and future of American poetry (1 July 1943). Mentions contents of and reaction to his article in Partisan Review criticising John Dewey's theory of the value of learning (28 December 1943). Offers favorable critique of Tyler's The Granite Butterfly (29 December 1945). Williams, William Carlos |
1943, 1945 | ||
| Folder 7 | Correspondence 5.0 items Contents Note: Feels that "American poetry has been sick since the popular stuff Elliot [sic] dumped on us"; sees end of "slump" approaching and is encouraged by Tyler's poems (5 January). Sends a "piece" to Tyler and asks him to edit the material as he wishes (9 January). Refers to the proposed publication of issue of Briarcliffe Quarterly devoted to his works (10 July). Williams, William Carlos |
1946 | ||
| Folder 8 | Correspondence 5.0 items Contents Note: Comments on complementary relationship between poetry and prose as forms of literature which do not need to be seperated as "Mr. Eliot might insist" (10 March). States that he will be discussing The Granite Butterfly in a series of Y.M.C.A. lectures (18 September; mss. notes added to letter in Tyler's hand). Criticizes Tyler's study of Chaplin (18, 22 September, and two "Sunday, 1948" letters). Williams, William Carlos |
1948 | ||
| Folder 9 | Correspondence 4.0 items Contents Note: Discusses his theory of poetry and his standards for his own works; analyzes modern French poetry (9 February 1949). States that most poets "are so damned intent on getting 'big' ideas in their verse that they are nothing but big wind bags writing conventional drivel" (22 February 1949). In reference to request from Tyler for contributions to article on neo-romanticist writers, asks if he has consulted Jack Kerouac and recommends poems of Naomi Hunter (24 January 1959). Williams, William Carlos |
1949, 1959 |
