No.3 February, 2002
 
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of FMTP back numbers FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN No.26 Series : Ezra Pound in History ( 26th installment ) Part 3 After the Wars Chapter 14 Gorilla Cage and Psychiatric Ward( First Half, Section 1-2) <Summary of the Article> Interview in Genoa with a newspaper reporter; Confinement in Pisa; His life in Pisa written in Pisan Cantos; Opinions among American writers; The trial of Ezra Pound; Pound and psychiatric disorder Art : James McNeill Whistler's Lecture on Art (15) Peacock Room (2) Thomas Jeckyll's work for the Peacock room; Whistler's take over of the Peacock room commission. FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN No.27 Series : Ezra Pound in History ( 27th installment ) Part 3 After the Wars Chapter 14 Gorilla Cage and Psychiatric Ward( Second Half, Section 3-4) <Summary of the Article> Charles Olson's visits to St Elizabeths Hospital and his departure; Visits of friends and researchers to the hospital; Publication of The Pisan Cantos; Awarding of the Bollingen Prize to The Pisan Cantos; Controversy over the awarding; view of George Orwell who too was a wartime broadcaster, though from another side; Robert Lowell's meeting with Pound; Beat generation; Publication of letters, literary essays, and translations; Publication of The Classic Anthology Defined by Confucius, Women of Trachis, and Rock-Drill Cantos; Development of studies on Pound Art : James McNeill Whistler's Lecture on Art (16) Peacock Room (3) How the Peacock room was decorated; Whistler's activity for the publicity of his work; Fight between Whistler and Leyland over the fee; Relationship of artist and his patron in modern times; FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN No.28 Series : Ezra Pound in History ( 28th installment ) Part 3 After the Wars Chapter 15 In Pursuit of Unity( 1st of 3 parts, Section 1) <Summary of the Article> Activities appealing Pound's release; Appeal from Italy to the US ambassador in Rome; Arrangement of the campaign to release Pound by Archibald MacLeish; Letter signed by MacLeish, Eliot, Frost, and Hemingway, asking to take steps to nol pros the indictment was sent to the Attoney General; Frost's meeting with President Eisenhower; Court hearing for Pound's case; Statements of Frost submitted in support of motion to dismiss indictment and statements of Auden, Eliot, et al. appended to it; Leaving St.Elizabeths. Art : James McNeill Whistler's Lecture on Art (17) White House(1) Whistler planned on building a new house lived by himself in 1876. He hired his friend, Edward William Godwin, for the architect. Godwin was an innovative architect interested in Japanese design. FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN No.29 Series : Ezra Pound in History ( 29th installment ) Part 3 After the Wars Chapter 15 In Pursuit of Unity( 2nd of 3 parts, Section 2) <Summary of the Article> Leaving America for Italy; Living at Schloss Brunnenburg; Thrones De Los Cantales; Depression; Donald Hall's interview with Pound; Attending Eliot's funeral. Art : James McNeill Whistler's Lecture on Art (18) White House(2) Godwin's design for Whistler's new house was highly original and innovative. Facade of it was flat and white. It was all@against then fashionable 'Queen Anne' Revival FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN No.30 Series : Ezra Pound in History ( 30th installment ) Part 3 After the Wars Chapter 15 In Pursuit of Unity( 3rd of 3 parts, Section 3) <Summary of the Article> Meeting with Allen Ginsberg; Visiting New York to attend the exhibition of the manuscript of The Waste Land in the Public Library; Foreword written for Selected Prose 1909-1965; Death in Venice. Art : James McNeill Whistler's Lecture on Art (19) White House(3) Interior of Whistler's White House also was much influenced by Japanese architechtural design. |