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Ezra Pound: A Celebration

Published New York: Hamilton College, 1980

4pp.; 22.9 x 15.3 cm. Single leaf folded once, printed in black and blue. 3 leaves, 28 x 21.5 cm, printed in black and blue, folded and laid-in.

Part of Ephemera

From the library of A. David Moody

Announcement leaflet for a celebration of EP held 75 years after his graduating from Hamilton College in June 1905, at the age of nineteen, with a Bachelor’s of Philosophy. “The Occasion of the 75th Anniversary of His Graduation,” April 25-26, 1980. The celebration served as a chance for Hamilton to exhibit their extensive collection of Poundian material, which began under Walter Pilkington in the 1950’s, including a copy of A Lume Spento (A. Antonini, 1908), drawings of Pound by Wyndham Lewis, and a corrected typescript of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (these latter two having been donated by Omar Pound, also a graduate of Hamilton). With a laid-in communication dated March 24, 1980. Some age and creasing.