POETRY ARCHIVE J.P. ANGOLD, PETER RUSSELL w/ EZRA POUND & T.S. ELIOT Association

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POETRY ARCHIVE J.P. ANGOLD, PETER RUSSELL w/ EZRA POUND & T.S. ELIOT Association:
$350.00

Small Archive of Letters, Proofs, Carbons, Poem / Page Layouts, Articles, - All related to the PUBLICATION by PETER RUSSELL of the COLLECTED POEMS of J. P. ANGOLD.Includes:(1) BOOK - COLLECTED POEMS, by J. P. ANGOLD. With an Introduction by RONALD DUNCAN. Published by PETER RUSSELL, London, 1952. Softcovers with Integral Printed Wrappers, 5.5” x 8.5”, 54 pages plus Colophon / Limitation page at the end. From the Colophon / Limitation page: “Of this edition of J. F. (printer’s error - should be “P” not “F”) Angold’s Collected Poems, 350 numbered copies have been produced... A few additional copies have been circulated to the Press. These are unnumbered and marked.” This copy is stamped “PRESS COPY”. GOOD condition, the binder’s glue has darkened the gutter of the front and rear inner hinges, as normal (not good glue); the wrappers are toned at the spine and margins, are creased at the spine, and have some wear at the spine ends, edges and folds, but remain bright and clear.(2) TYPED LETTER SIGNED, from PHILIP MAIRET to PETER RUSSELL. The letter is intended to get Peter Russell interested in publishing the poems of J.P. Angold. The letter discusses T.S. ELIOT and EZRA POUND, and their interest in seeing the poems of J.P. ANGOLD published in a book. This letter is quite interesting, and I have transcribed it below:

Best wishes... Philip THREE PAGE TYPED LETTER on three sides of two sheets of stationery with the Printed Letterhead of “PETER RUSSELL / Bookseller and Publisher / 69 Grosvenor Road, Turnbridge Wells”. The letter is dated “16th May, 1952”. The letter is signed in blue ink, with a typed note beneath the signature “Dictated by Mr. Russell, but signed for him in his absence”. The letter discusses the various changes to the Poems and to the Proofs that he, Peter Russell, would like to make before publication. The letter is addressed to H. E. Angold, the father of the deceased J. P. Angold. There are handwritten margin notes on the letter, presumably by H.E. Angold, commenting on the suggestions and remarks in the letter.(4) HANDWRITTEN TWO PAGE LETTER on both sides of a single-sheet. The letter is from H.E. ANGOLD to PETER RUSSELL. The letter is dated 24-5-52. The letter discusses the changes to the poems of J.P. ANGOLD that PETER RUSSELL, the publisher, wants to make. The letter also discusses the DEATH of his son, J.P. Angold, while flying in World War Two. “He was very keen on flying...”(5) HANDWRITTEN TWO PAGE LETTER on both sides of a single-sheet. The letter is from MARJORIE TWEEDIE, the sister of J.P. ANGOLD, to PETER RUSSELL, the publisher. The letter is from East Africa and is dated Dec. 10, 52. The letter congratulates Peter on publishing the book, BUT goes in great lengths to BERATE him for never mentioning “PENROSE” as part of the author’s name, and for not detailing J.P. Angold’s relationships with various poets, including A.E., G.K CHESTERTON, ORAGE, and EZRA POUND. She ends by asking where she might find reviews of the book.(6) CARBON TYPESCRIPTS of 28 POEMS, each on its own sheet, sheets of various size.(7) Clipped Printed Poems, pasted on six sheets of various sizes. These were, perhaps, poems previously published in the New English Weekly that were to be reprinted in the Collected Poems book.

(8) PAGE PROOFS, on 10 long fold-down sheets, and 1 shorter sheet.

(9) Page of hastily handwritten notes, presumably by Peter Russell, to remind himself of questions he had regarding the poems of Angold.

The items are all in Generally GOOD condition, signs of handling, creases, toning, all still clear and fully legible.About J. P. ANGOLD (from Wikipedia):******John Penrose Angold (c. 1909 – December 31, 1943) was a British poet and translator who died while serving with the RAF during World War II. A Collected Poems appeared in 1952. His death is lamented in Ezra Pound\'s Pisan Cantos.******

About the Publisher PETER RUSSELL (from Wikipedia):******Irwin Peter Russell (16 September 1921 – 22 January 2003) was a British poet, translator and critic. He spent the first half of his life—apart from war service—based in Kent and London, being the proprietor of a series of bookshops, editing the influential literary magazine Nine and being part of the literary scene. Bankruptcy and divorce led to several years of travel which took him to Berlin, Venice, British Columbia and Iran, amongst other places. After the Iranian Revolution he settled permanently in Italy, where he spent the rest of his life. He lived in considerable financial hardship and throughout all he lived a life dedicated to poetry. His work never became mainstream, but it is highly regarded in some circles.Russell was born in Bristol and educated at Malvern College. During World War II he served in the Royal Artillery as an intelligence officer in India and Burma, he left the army with the rank of major. After the war, he studied English at Queen Mary College, London. He left without taking a degree.In 1948 Russell set up an \"Ezra Pound Circle\' which met once a fortnight in a London pub. Arthur Moore[disambiguation needed] encouraged him, passing on advice from Pound: \"E.P. thinks you might do as he used to half a century ago ... arrange to be at a given eating place at a given hour each week ... It must be cheap enough so anyone can afford it, and at a place where such a gathering would be made comfortable.\" That summer Russell went to Italy and met Olga Rudge at Siena, met Pound\'s friend John Drummond in Rome, and visited Rapallo where he met D. D. Paige who was staying in Pound\'s old flat engaged in the arduous task of compiling the first selection of Pound\'s letters.In 1951 Russell married Marjorie Keeling-Bloxam. Her brother-in-law was Albion Harman, son of the self-proclaimed king of Lundy, the largest island in the Bristol Channel. In the 1950s Russell often visited Lundy, and enjoyed bird-watching there.In 1949 Russell founded the literary magazine Nine (named after the Nine Muses) which in its eleven issues published many notable poets including George Barker, Basil Bunting, Roy Campbell, Ronald Duncan, Paul Eluard, William Empson, David Gascoyne, Robert Graves, Michael Hamburger. The following year he started The Pound Press. Russell published work by Pound\'s friends, An Examination of Ezra Pound (1950), but also the first English translations of Mandelstam, Pasternak and Borges. Russell ran the Grosvenor Bookshop in Tunbridge Wells from 1951 to 1959. Both Nine and the Pound Press ceased operation in 1956, and later that year Russell met the young William Cookson and in 1958 introduced him to Krystyna and Czesław Bednarczyk of The Poets\' and Painters\' Press[4] and suggested that Cookson found his own journal, which was to be the long-running Agenda. Russell introduced him to the works of Hugh McDiarmid and Tom Scott. Cookson saw Agenda as in part a continuation of what Russell had done with Nine. In 1995 Agenda brought out one of its dedicated issues: \'A Tribute to Peter Russell\'.In 1959 the Grosvenor Bookshop went out of business, and he opened the Gallery Bookshop in Soho, London. He finally went bankrupt in 1963 and with the collapse of his marriage, he moved to Berlin. In 1965 he relocated to Venice. He had rooms in the Campo de la Bragola.In the mid 1970s he held a writing fellowship as poet in residence at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, where he met his second wife, Lana Sue Long, who was around 30 years his junior. Two daughters, Kathleen and Chris, were born to the couple in 1975 and 1976. After leaving Canada, the family moved to Tehran, where Russell taught and studied at the Imperial Academy of Philosophy. Their third child, a son, Peter George, was born there in 1977. They remained in Iran until the 1979 revolution, when they returned to Italy, where they lived together under considerable financial hardship. In 1989 Lana returned with the three children to North America, settling in Jackpot, Nevada, and the couple divorced in the 1990s. Tuscany was Russell\'s home for the last forty years of his life. In 1983 he moved into an old mill — \"La Turbina\" — in Pian di Scò, in the Valdarno near Arezzo. Life at the mill was rudimentary, and there was hardly any furniture, although there were thousands of books in a variety of languages, and a supply of whisky and cigarettes. Russell essentially lived in the kitchen, the most habitable and only warm room of the house.From 1990 her began editing the Marginalia Newsletter, which appeared alternately in English (odd numbered issues) and Italian (even numbered issues). In the early 1990s he began working with his son, now a teenager, on the translations in his bilingual collections of his poems.In April 2001 serious health problems associated with a gastric ulcer led to three months in hospital, followed by a further three months in a sanatorium for the elderly. Around this time he became effectively completely blind.Russell translated varied works from several European languages, he also worked in Persian and Arabic; he was the first English translator of Osip Mandelstam. His close friends included Kathleen Raine and Leonello Rabatti. He was a cousin of Bertrand RussellHe died in the hospital at San Giovanni Valdarno, only 15 minutes or so by car from Pian di Scò.Dana Gioia has described Russell as \"a poet of striking contradictions. He is an immensely learned writer with an anti-academic temperament, a Modernist bewitched by classicism, a polyglot rooted in demotic English, an experimentalist in love with strict traditional forms, a natural democrat suspicious of the Left, and a mystic committed to clarity.\"******
About PHILIP MAIRET (from Wikipedia):******Philip Mairet (full name: Philippe Auguste Mairet; 1886–1975) was a designer, writer and journalist. He had a wide range of interest: crafts, Alfred Adler and psychiatry, and Social Credit. He was also a translator of major figures including Sartre. He wrote biographies of Sir Patrick Geddes and A. R. Orage, with both of whom he was closely associated.Although influenced largely by the example of Orage, a follower of Gurdjieff, Mairet was in later life an Anglican Christian. As editor of the New English Weekly in the 1930s, he championed both Christian socialism (in the sense of Maurice Reckitt, a friend), as it was known at the time, and ideas on agriculture that would come together later as organic farming.He was educated at the Hornsey School of Art, becoming a draughtsman and designer of stained glass. As a young man he worked in graphic design for Charles Robert Ashbee, becoming part of his community at Chipping Campden, and illustrating Conradin: A Philosophical Ballad (1908). He then worked for Patrick Geddes.His wife Ethel Mairet (1872–1952) (previously married to Ananda Coomaraswamy) was an influential weaver and teacher, settled in Ditchling, Sussex and was associated with The Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic. She was born Ethel Mary Partridge and trained at the Royal Academy of Music; her marriage to Coomaraswamy lasted from 1903 to 1913. They met because Philip had come to Ditchling to work as a labourer. He was avoiding conscripted military service during World War I, and developed an interest in glass-making. He was that at time influenced by Dimitrije Mitrinović, attached to the Serbian Delegation in London, who met Mairet in 1917. Eventually Mairet was discovered, enrolled in the British Army, and spent a period in prison.From 1921 to 1924 he worked as an actor, at the Old Vic. He began attending Orage\'s editorial meetings.Orage died suddenly in 1934, leaving the New English Weekly in limbo. Mairet, then the literary editor, emerged as the editor by a complex route: one group of Social Credit advocates wanted to exclude another group, of supporters of Mitrinović. Mairet was identified more with a third faction, the Chandos Group, around Maurice Reckitt, with Travers Symons, V. A. Demant, and Alan Porter. This overlapped the Mitrinović group: there had been a shared interest in the journal Purpose, from 1929, and the theories of Adler were also a common factor. Symons introduced Mairet to T. S. Eliot, who was holding the ring. In practical terms the Chandos Group were already deeply involved in producing the New English Weekly, and were sympathetic to Social Credit.He belonged to numerous other small societies and discussion groups of the period before World War II. He joined Rolf Gardiner\'s Kinship in Husbandry group in 1941. He edited The Frontier for Walter Moberly\'s Christian Frontier Council.He was an early supporter of George Orwell, giving him literary work for the New English Weekly, and writing in very positive and comprehending terms about Homage to Catalonia and Orwell\'s approach. A friend and long-time correspondent also of T. S. Eliot, who dedicated his Notes towards the Definition of Culture to Mairet, he became one of the best-connected of all the British Christian intellectuals of that time.******

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