Title The poets of Rapallo : how Mussolini's Italy shaped British, Irish, and U.S. writers / Lauren Arrington

Edition First edition Published Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 226 pages) : illustrations (some color), color map Contents Cover -- The Poets of Rapallo: How Mussolini's Italy Shaped British, Irish, and U.S. Writers -- Copyright -- Dedication -- The Making of The Poets of Rapallo -- Contents -- List of Figures -- A Brief Chronology of Comings and Goings -- Chapter 1: The Roads to Rapallo -- A Pre-History of Poets -- "The north side of the Alps is an error" -- Yeats, Pound, and Il Duce -- An "Ezuversity" -- Chapter 2: Shell-Shocked -- A Call to Life -- Songs of Themselves -- Who ate Pound's heart? -- The Problem with "War Poetry" -- Chapter 3: Primavera 1928 -- Periodical Pound and His Collaborators Making the Public Man -- Pedagogical Pound and His Disciples -- Chapter 4: Singing School -- Dangerous Bardolatry -- Condoms and Classics -- Broadside Ballads and the Outward Turn -- Chapter 5: Making Living History -- Building the Fascist State -- Writing for Caesar's Eyes -- Chapter 6: Accounting for Rapallo -- Apologia and Amnesia -- The Totalitarian Man and the Women of Rapallo -- Notes -- Front Matter -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Select Bibliography -- Index Summary 'The Poets of Rapallo' explores W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound's relationship as played out against the backdrop of Mussolini's Italy in the 1920s and 1930s and shows how Yeats, Pound, and others in their Italian network developed a late modernist style aimed at effecting world change Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online platform, viewed June 27, 2022) Subject Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 -- Homes and haunts -- Italy -- Rapallo Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 -- Friends and associates SUBJECT Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 fast Subject English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism Modernism (Literature) American poetry English poetry Friendship Homes Intellectual life Modernism (Literature) SUBJECT Rapallo (Italy) -- Intellectual life Subject Italy -- Rapallo Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191916304 0191916307

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