Between History and Poetry: The Letters of H.D. And Norman Holmes Pearson

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I have had generous support in the editing of this book. Louis H. Silverstein, to whom it is dedicated, worked with me at the beginning, provided moral support throughout, and read a draft of the completed manuscript. He and Monty Montee opened their home to me during many pleasurable visits to the Beinecke Library. My work in progress also benefited greatly from several valuable discussions with Louis L. Martz, a colleague and close friend of Norman Holmes Pearson, and from a long interview with Perdita Schaffner , H.D.'s daughter. Further, I wish to thank Pearson's stepdaughter, Susan Addiss, and his niece, Elizabeth Rice-Smith, for generously granting me interviews , as well as his associatesDonald Gallup and Wilda Hammerman. Others who provided valuable information and help include Leo Dolenski, George Heywood, Steve Jones, Jan Miel, Gilbert Li, Robert Spoo, Patricia Willis,Tom Wolfe, and Robin Winks. I am also very grateful to Adalaide Morris for her careful critique of the whole manuscript in an earlier, longer draft. Special thanks to John Gatta for release time from teaching at a crucial stage, to Ann Charters for help with t_he preparation of the manuscript, and to my excellent research assistants, Joey Monaco and Allison Hild. My research was enabled by an I:LD. Fellowship at the Beinecke Library and several small grants from the University of Connecticut Research Foundation . An earlier version of one chapter appeared in Sagetrieb(Fall 1995). I wish to thank Burton Hatlen for his careful proofing of that material. Unless otherwise indicated in the notes, the unpublished letters of H.D., Pearson, and others are at the Beinecke Library. Special acknowledgment is made to the YaleCollection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. I wish also to acknowledge assistance from the Bryn Mawr Library, the Rosenbach Memorial Library, and the Lilly Library oflndiana University. Publication of Pearson's letters is by permission of YaleUniversity. Previously unpublished letters by H.D. are copyright ©1997 by Perdita Schaffner. Grateful acknowledgment is given to New Directions Publishing Corporation for permission to quote from previously unpublished letters by Ezra Pound, copyright © 1997by Mary de Rachewiltz and Omar S. Pound, and to Perdita Schaffner for permission to quote from previously unpublished letters by Bryher, copyright © 1997 by Perdita Schaffner. Grateful acknowledgment is also given to New Directions Publishing Corporation for permission to quote from the following copyrighted works ofH.D.: Trilogy (copyright© 1973by Norman Holmes Pearson) and End to Torment: A Memoir of Ezra Pound (copyright© 1979 by New Directions Publishing Corporation). Finally, my deepest gratitude is to my husband, Leonard M. Rubin. For his listening and commenting and proofing and caring, I am more thankful than I can say. X Acknowledgments ...