POUND, Ezra (1885-1972). Autograph manuscript poem signed ("Ez"), "Neath Ben Bulben's Buttocks," November 1948. 1½pp. (recto and verso), mat burn along edges, chip at lower edge, small strips of tape on verso . In pencil.
POUND, Ezra (1885-1972). Autograph manuscript poem signed ("Ez"), "Neath Ben Bulben's Buttocks," November 1948. 1½pp. (recto and verso), mat burn along edges, chip at lower edge, small strips of tape on verso . In pencil. POUND POKES FUN AT YEATS'S 1939 "BEN BULBEN" AS WELL AS HIS OWN RECEIPT OF THE BOLLINGEN PRIZE, in this manuscript inscribed to Huntington Cairns, written while Pound was still an inmate at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. He headlines the first page, "As to the Spekked-Tater's command," before launching into the 11-line poem. It begins: "Neath Ben Bulben's buttocks l(o)ies Bill Yeats a poet Twoice the soize of Willyam Wordswordswork as they say Down Bollikillywuchlin way..." On the verso he has inscribed the work to "H. Cairns his copy. Not fer over diffusion. Nov ; 48." The Library of Congress awarded Pound the first Bollingen Prize in February 1949 for the Pisan Cantos , and Cairns visited him at St. Elizabeth's shortly after he received the news. The poet "was obviously excited" and contemplated a press statement to read: "No comment from the Bug House," but thought better of it. The award sparked an intense controversy that spread from the literary press to the floor of Congress, with several legislators joining with Jacob Javits to denounce what he called "the infiltration of Fascist ideas...in so august an institution as the Library of Congress." The controversy forced the Library to turn the dispensation of the prize over to Yale University. Pound did not publish the poem until Pavannes and Divagations (1958). Christie's sold an epistolary draft of this poem (London, 13 June 2012, lot 43). Huntington Cairns (1904-1985) was a Washington lawyer, counsel to the National Gallery of Art, a biographer of Mencken, and even, for a time, a special advisor to the Customs Department to determine whether incoming books were pornographic or obscene. He consulted with the Bollingen Foundation about the creation of the prize.
POUND, Ezra (1885-1972). Autograph manuscript poem signed ("Ez"), "Neath Ben Bulben's Buttocks," November 1948. 1½pp. (recto and verso), mat burn along edges, chip at lower edge, small strips of tape on verso . In pencil.
POUND, Ezra (1885-1972). Autograph manuscript poem signed ("Ez"), "Neath Ben Bulben's Buttocks," November 1948. 1½pp. (recto and verso), mat burn along edges, chip at lower edge, small strips of tape on verso . In pencil. POUND POKES FUN AT YEATS'S 1939 "BEN BULBEN" AS WELL AS HIS OWN RECEIPT OF THE BOLLINGEN PRIZE, in this manuscript inscribed to Huntington Cairns, written while Pound was still an inmate at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. He headlines the first page, "As to the Spekked-Tater's command," before launching into the 11-line poem. It begins: "Neath Ben Bulben's buttocks l(o)ies Bill Yeats a poet Twoice the soize of Willyam Wordswordswork as they say Down Bollikillywuchlin way..." On the verso he has inscribed the work to "H. Cairns his copy. Not fer over diffusion. Nov ; 48." The Library of Congress awarded Pound the first Bollingen Prize in February 1949 for the Pisan Cantos , and Cairns visited him at St. Elizabeth's shortly after he received the news. The poet "was obviously excited" and contemplated a press statement to read: "No comment from the Bug House," but thought better of it. The award sparked an intense controversy that spread from the literary press to the floor of Congress, with several legislators joining with Jacob Javits to denounce what he called "the infiltration of Fascist ideas...in so august an institution as the Library of Congress." The controversy forced the Library to turn the dispensation of the prize over to Yale University. Pound did not publish the poem until Pavannes and Divagations (1958). Christie's sold an epistolary draft of this poem (London, 13 June 2012, lot 43). Huntington Cairns (1904-1985) was a Washington lawyer, counsel to the National Gallery of Art, a biographer of Mencken, and even, for a time, a special advisor to the Customs Department to determine whether incoming books were pornographic or obscene. He consulted with the Bollingen Foundation about the creation of the prize.
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