Arrington, Lauren
(2018)
The blindness of hindsight: Irish and British poets
look back on early fascist Italy.
Irish Political Studies, 33 (2).
pp. 246-258.
ISSN 0790-7184
Abstract
In the interwar period, the small town of Rapallo, Italy, was the year-round home
of Ezra and Dorothy Pound and a seasonal retreat for W. B. Yeats and George
Yeats. The promise of good company, the hope of good weather, and the
potential for poetic collaboration drew to Rapallo a number of poets who
were influential in shaping twentieth-century poetry. However, Pound’s
virulent fascism and the Pact of Friendship and Alliance between Germany
and Italy (1939) meant that writers were loathe to recognise the degree to
which Rapallo was instrumental to late modernist networks. For the most part,
biographers have followed suit. This essay attends to memoirs written by
Nancy Cunard, H. D., Richard Aldington, and Thomas MacGreevy to illustrate
post-war aversions to acknowledging the importance of Rapallo and to
demonstrate how writers negotiated their relationship to Pound in
constructing their own literary biographies in the shadow of the Second
World War.
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