From Vortex to Vorticism: Ezra Pound's art and science.

From: Intertexts | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

On December 3, 1924, Ezra Pound wrote frosm the Italian town of Rapallo to Percy Wyndham Lewis in London: "I have just, ten years and a bit after its appearance, and in this far distant locus, taken out a copy of the great MAGENTA cover'd opusculus. We were hefty guys in them days; and of what has come after us, we seem to have survived without a great mass of successors" (Lewis and Pound 138). The "great MAGENTA cover'd opusculus" to which Pound refers in his letter was the first number of the magazine BLAST, published in June 1914. (1) The painter and writer Wyndham Lewis--its ...

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