Ripostes of Ezra Pound / whereto are appended the complete poetical works of T. E. Hulme, with a prefatory note.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hulme, T. E. (Thomas Ernest), 1883-1917.

Hulme, T. E.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Esher, Reginald Baliol Brett, Viscount, 1852-1930 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

63 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 31 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 20 cm

Edition:

[First edition, first issue].

Manufacture:

Edinburgh : Printed by Neill and Co., Ltd.

Place of Publication:

London : Stephen Swift and Co., Ltd., 16 King Street, Covent Garden, MCMXII [1912]

Notes:

With half-title.

In the list of books by the same author the first work of poetry is "Personal".

Contains 25 poems by Pound and 6 poems by Hulme.

"The Complete Poetical Works of T. E. Hulme" with a prefatory note by Ezra Pound in which he uses the word "Imagiste" for the first time: p. 58-[64].

Publisher's advertisements printed in red and black: [32] p. at end.

The publisher's advertisements were cut out in some presentation copies distributed after the failure of the company.

A few weeks after the publication of "Ripostes" the firm Swift & Co. collapsed. Elkin Mathews took over the remaining copies and in May 1913 issued a composite volume of "Canzoni & Ripostes of Ezra Pound" and in April 1915 "Ripostes" by itself.

Gray streaked cloth boards lettered and ruled in gilt on front cover.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate "Esher" pasted over another bookplate.

OCLC:

669935