Helen Carr – The Verse Revolutionaries: Ezra Pound, H.D. and The Imagists

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The Independent“A sheer weight of detail and huge cast of characters...” An emphasis on the personal throughout, gives her work depth as well as breadth, with people shown as real, living, breathing intellectuals. The relationship between Pound and his fellow expatriate, HD, controls the narrative flow of Carr's book...

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Guardian“The longest footnote in history...” The Verse Revolutionaries amounts in the end to a vast celebration - and indeed an example - of the complex circulation of literature and ideas...

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The Times“A very fine revisionist portrait of the prewar period...” Her book is a remarkable accomplishment: well-researched to an almost heroic degree, crammed with interesting details and, bar the odd lapse into seminar-speak, elegantly written...