At 09:41 PM 1/16/00 EST, CB Rizzo wrote:
>I've been searching for information pertaining to Pound & Futurism (pref.
>pre-war), but haven't had much luck. Did Pound know those Futurist fellows at
>all? If anyone could offer some assistance it would be much appreciated.
 
Four authors who discuss the connection are:
 
Vincent Sherry, in _Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Radical Modernism_ (OUP,
1993), pp. 13-15;
 
and Daniel Albright, Ronald Bush, and Reed Way Dasenbrock, in their essays
in _The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound_.
 
And offhand I can think of two Pound references to the arch-Futurist
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. In Canto 72 Pound pays tribute to Marinetti's
Fascism, but in _Selected Letters 1907-1941_, letter 274 (date: 1934), he
writes off Marinetti's aesthetic experiments as unoriginal.
 
And there's an almost new anthology that makes the connections in an
interestingly offbeat way. This is _Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and
Documents_, ed. Vassiliki Kolocotroni, Jane Goldman, and Olga Taxidou
(University of Chicago Press, 1998).
 
Jonathan Morse