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Olga Rudge & Ezra Pound: "What Thou Lovest Well . . ." Paperback – October 1, 2001

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A loving and admiring companion for half a century to literary titan Ezra Pound, concert violinist Olga Rudge was the muse who inspired the poet to complete his epic poem, The Cantos,and the mother of his only daughter, Mary. Strong-minded and defiant of conventions, Rudge knew the best and worst of times with Pound. With him, she coped with the wrenching dislocations brought about by two catastrophic world wars and experienced modernism’s radical transformation of the arts.

In this enlightening biography, Anne Conover offers a full portrait of Olga Rudge (1895–1996), drawing for the first time on Rudge’s extensive unpublished personal notebooks and correspondence. Conover explores Rudge’s relationship with Pound, her influence on his life and career, and her perspective on many details of his controversial life, as well as her own musical career as a violinist and musicologist and a key figure in the revival of Vivaldi’s music in the 1930s. In addition to mining documentary sources, the author interviewed Rudge and family members and friends. The result is a vivid account of a highly intelligent and talented woman and the controversial poet whose flame she tended to the end of her long life.

The book quotes extensively from the Rudge–Pound letters--an almost daily correspondence that began in the 1920s and continued until Pound’s death in 1972. These letters shed light on many aspects of Pound’s disturbing personality; the complicated and delicate balance he maintained between the two most significant women in his life, Olga and his wife Dorothy, for fifty years; the birth of Olga and Ezra’s daughter Mary de Rachewiltz; Pound’s alleged anti-Semitism and Fascist sympathies; his wartime broadcasts over Rome radio and indictment for treason; and his twelve-year incarceration in St. Elizabeth’s Hospital for the mentally ill.

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Ezra Pound’s loving and admiring companion for half a century, concert violinist Olga Rudge was the muse who inspired the poet to complete The Cantos andthe mother of his only daughter, Mary. This book is the first biography of the strong-minded and unconventional Rudge. Drawing on a huge archive of unpublished letters and notebooks as well as on interviews with Rudge, her family, and friends, Anne Conover offers not only a vivid portrait of a woman who was fascinating in her own right but also new perspectives on many aspects of Pound’s life.

About the Author

Anne Conover is an independent scholar and biographer currently living in Washington, D.C.

Print length

368 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Yale University Press
Publication date

October 1, 2001
Dimensions

6 x 0.82 x 9 inches
ISBN-10

0300191421
ISBN-13

978-0300191424
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Yale University Press; Special edition (October 1, 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0300191421
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0300191424
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.82 x 9 inches

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Lan the Answer Man

Nearly incomprehensible in three or four languages

Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2002

Anne Conover's biography of Olga Rudge and Ezra Pound is nearly incomprehensible in three or four languages. Conover's style seems to be to write a topic sentence, then devote the rest of the paragraph to an extended quote, in English, French, Italian or perhaps in Pound's eccentric prose, from her research. The reseach, indeed, is wonderful and, I'm sure, of great benefit to Pound scholars.
But should we not expect from a biographer the ability to string together a cogent narrative, to take the reader smoothly from point to point? In the early chapters, for example, Conover shoves the reader from the point where Pound and Rudge meet to Rudge expecting Pound's child in a few disjointed, ungainful leaps. The story is difficult to follow, with facts and (historical) figures introduced almost at random, like paint thrown carelessly on a canvas.
This reader, for one, was disappointed that such interesting and valuable research has been so badly mugged. Shame on Yale for publishing this without taking time to edit it in a professional way, or at least to provide some guidance to a novice biographer.

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