Stone Cottage

James Longenbach tells the virtually untold story of W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound's close collaboration in a Sussex cottage during the winters of 1913-1916, offering numerous new insights into this "secret society" of like minds whose literary production and aristocratic ways set the tone of Modernism. Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats spent the winters of 1913-16 living together in a Cottage in Sussex. During that period, Yeats, with Pound's help, developed his autobiographies and Noh-style plays. Pound, similarly, under Yeats's influence, experimented with esoteric texts in the development of his own Imagistic theory. Drawing on extensive literary scholarship and previously unpublished work by Pound and Yeats, Longenbach's book breaks new ground in the study of this critical period in the rise of Modernism.