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2.
“Blessed Michael, the ass”
:
Gogarty,
It Isn’t This Time of Year
, pp. 87–88.
firing a pistol
:
Ibid., p. 96; Oliver Gogarty,
Mourning Became Mrs. Spendlove
(New York: Creative Age Press, 1948), pp. 56–57.
middle of the night
:
JJ to James Starkey, Sept. 15, 1904,
LII
, p. 42.
“Is there one”
:
Ell, p. 176.
only Protestant
:
Maddox,
Nora: A Biography
, p. 20.
followed her home
:
Ell, p. 159.
began beating
:
JJ to SJ, Dec. 3, 1904,
LII
, p. 72–73.
She was nineteen
:
Ibid.
3. THE VORTEX
how to fence
:
Humphrey Carpenter,
A Serious Character: The Life of Ezra Pound
(London, Boston: Faber and Faber, 1988), p. 222.
slash the air
:
Qtd. in John Tytell,
Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano
(New York: Anchor Press, 1987), p. 96.
“Wild and haunting”
:
Betsy Erkkila,
Ezra Pound: The Contemporary Reviews
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), p. 3.
velvet jacket
:
Charles Norman,
The Case of Ezra
Pound
(New York: Bodley Press, 1948), p. 19.
billiard-green felt trousers
:
Tytell,
Pound,
p. 93.
ate them
and
“Would anyone mind”:
EP qtd. in Ernest Rhys,
Everyman Remembers
(Toronto: J.M. Dent, 1931), p. 244.
needed the admiration
and
no poetry
and
rumors:
James Longenbach,
Stone Cottage: Pound, Yeats, and Modernism
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), p. 14.
deepened Yeats’s concentration
:
Anthony Moody,
Ezra Pound: Poet
:
A Portrait of the Man and His Work
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 240.
humming and chanting
:
Longenbach,
Stone Cottage,
p. 8.
Yeats from Wordsworth
:
Carpenter,
Serious,
p. 222.
“Have you ever”
:
EP to Harriet Monroe qtd. in Moody,
Pound,
p. 215.
edited one of Yeats’s poems
:
Ibid., pp. 200
–
1.
“more salt”
:
Yeats qtd. in Marjorie Elizabeth Howes, “Introduction,”
The
Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), p. 6
“Romantic Ireland’s”
:
Yeats, “September 1913,” qtd. ibid., p. 19.
“Bad art”
:
EP, “The Serious Artist,” in Ezra Pound,
Early Writings:
Poems and Prose,
ed. Ira B. Nadel (New York: Penguin Books, 2005), p. 235.
Paris metro
:
EP, “How I Began” and “Vorticism,” ibid., pp. 214
–
5, 286.
“The apparition”
:
EP, “In a Station of the Metro,”
Poetry
2, no. 1 (April 1913), p. 12.
“Use no superfluous”
:
EP, “A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste,” ibid., p. 254.
hand-me-down
:
EP, “Hell” in
Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
(New York: New Directions, 1968), p. 205.
“The artist”
:
EP, “How I Began,”
Early Writings
, p. 211.
“Dear Sir”
:
EP to JJ, Dec. 15, 1913,
EP/JJ
, pp. 17–18. First ellipsis EP’s; the second is mine.
“My Dear Mr Santa”
:
EP to Santa Claus, 1891, Yale Pound, Box 46 Folder 2026.
the largest city
:
Stephen Inwood,
City of Cities: The Birth of Modern London
(London: Macmillan, 2005), pp. 1–9.
Forty percent
:
Jerry White,
London in the Twentieth Century: A City and Its People
(London, New York: Viking, 2001), p. 177.
the most turbulent
:
George Dangerfield,
The Strange Death of Liberal England, 1910–1914
(New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2011).
Food lay rotting
:
Tytell,
Pound
, p. 65.
coal supply
:
White,
London
, pp. 73
–
74.
thirty-eight million workdays
:
Les Garner,
A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882–1960
(Brookfield, Vt.: Avebury, 1990), p. 78.
Windows were smashed
:
Jean Baker,
Votes for Women: The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited
(Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), p. 118.
steel spike
:
Richard Lloyd George,
My Father, Lloyd George
(New York: Crown Publishers, 1960), p. 122.
Churchill was horsewhipped
:
“Attacked by Suffragette,”
Troy Northern Budget
, Nov. 14, 1909, p. 1.
Empty houses
and
Bombs exploded:
See, e.g., Laura Mayhall,
The Militant Suffrage Movement: Citizenship and Resistance in Britain, 1860–1930
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), p. 107; Inwood,
City of Cities
, p. 158; William Wees,
Vorticism and the English Avant-Garde
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972), p. 18; “Suffragettes on the Warpath Again,”
NYT
, Jan. 29, 1913, p. 1; “Bomb Outrage by Suffragettes,”
Daily Express
, Feb. 20, 1913, p. 1; “Gunpowder Bomb,”
Evening Post
, May 6, 1914, p. 7.
first camera
:
“Spy Pictures of Suffragettes Revealed,”
BBC News Online
, Oct. 3, 2003. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3153024.stm.
more than a third
:
White,
London,
p. 154; Inwood,
City of Cities,
p. 458.
storm Parliament
:
Garner,
Spirit,
p. 43; Wees,
Vorticism,
p. 17.
nasal membrane
:
“Miss Emerson’s Injury Permanent, Say Doctors”
New York Tribune,
April 10, 1913, p. 3.
seized suffrage headquarters
:
Inwood,
City of Cities,
p. 159.
plotted to assassinate
:
“Suffragette ‘plot to Assassinate Asquith,’”
Telegraph
, Sept. 29, 2006; Inwood,
City of Cities,
p. 157.
“Admirably indecent”
and
One man laughed:
Tytell,
Pound
, pp. 65
–
66.
hadn’t absorbed Impressionism
:
Wees,
Vorticism
, p. 21.
from the 1890s
:
Roger Fry and Desmond McCarthy, “Manet and the Post-Impressionists,” Exhibition Catalogue (London:
Grafton Galleries, 1910); White,
London,
p. 341; Wees,
Vorticism,
p. 22.
“To revert in the name”
:
Charles Ricketts, “Post-Impressionism at the Grafton Gallery,” qtd. in Wees,
Vorticism,
p. 26.
nightclubs and cabarets
:
White,
London,
p. 329.
Cave of the Golden Calf
:
“The English Cabaret,”
NY Tribune
, Aug. 11, 1912, p. B3; “The Cabaret Theatre Club”
The Times [of London]
, June 27, 1912, p. 10; Wees,
Vorticism,
p. 50; Richard Cork,
Art Beyond the Gallery in Early 20th Century England
(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1985), pp. 61
–
105.
veins swelled
and
machine-gun fire:
“The Aims of Futurism,”
Times
, March 21, 1912 p. 2; Tytell,
Pound,
p. 106.
“Set fire to the shelves”
:
F. T. Marinetti, “The Founding and the Manifesto of Futurism,” in
Modernism: An Anthology
, ed. Lawrence Rainey (Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2005), p. 5.
Freda Graham
:
“Militant Slashes Herkomer Canvas,”
New York Tribune
, May 13, 1914, p. 6.
Venetian paintings
:
“‘Wild Women’ Damage Paintings”
NYT
,
May 23, 1914, p. 2; “Heavy Sentences for Suffragettes,”
New York Tribune
, May 27, 1914, p. 5.
portrait of Henry James
:
“Militant Ruins Sargent Portrait,”
New York Tribune
, May 5, 1914, p. 7.
assaulting a police officer
:
Garner,
Spirit
, pp. 31
–
32;
Daily Mirror,
April 1, 1909.
two more months
:
Garner,
Spirit,
p. 35;
Votes for Women
, Sept. 10, 1909.
tore off
and
straitjacket:
Elizabeth Crawford,
Women’s
Suffragette Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866–1928
(New York: Routledge, 2001), p. 379.
Southport in 1909
and
“But it does not”:
Garner,
Spirit,
pp. 39
–
40; “Budget Battle Rages in Britain,”
San Francisco Chronicle
, Dec. 5, 1909, p. 32. My exclamation point.
rain and freezing temperatures
:
Daily Weather Reports for Dec. 1909, National Meteorological Library, Exeter.
signs on boats
:

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