Searching for Yale’s avant-garde
From the frail, weathered sheet of paper, typed neatly in electric green ink, the words ring with the exuberance of a creative product still in the making. “Beat, beat, whirr, thud, in the soft turf under the apple trees/ Chorus nympharum, goat foot with the pale foot alternate./ Sea crescent bends blue-shot waters, green in the shallows.”
Nearby, in a separate folder carefully labeled and filed in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, a hand-scribbled envelope is addressed to the author of those typewritten lines: “Ezra Pound Esq, 5 Holland Place Chambers, Kensington W8,...
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