Olga Rudge & Ezra Pound: What Thou Lovest Well . . .

by Anne Conover

Book Overview

A loving and admiring companion for half a century to literary titan Ezra Pound, concert violinist Olga Rudge was the muse who inspired the poet to complete his epic poem, The Cantos, and the mother of his only daughter, Mary. Strong-minded and defiant of conventions, Rudge knew the best and worst of times with Pound. With him, she coped with the wrenching dislocations brought about by two catastrophic world wars and experienced modernism's radical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300191421
• ISBN13: 9780300191424
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"