“Objectivists” 1927-1934 Section 22 - History 1931-1934 Contents

Notes - Section 22 - History 1931-1934

1 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 25 April 1931, Yale. Pound/Zukofsky, p. 97, No. 38.

2 New Review, 1, 2 (May-June-July 1931), 83-88, 160-161.

3 New Review (May-June-July 1931), 71-82.

4 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 26 August 1931, Yale.

5 An “Objectivists” Anthology, pp. 44-46. Zukofsky received the first piece from Pound in his letters of 24 and 25 November 1930, Montemora (1981), 173-174.

6 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 18 September 1931, Yale.

7 Pagany, 2, 2 (April-June 1931), 21-23; 2, 3 (July-September 1931), 136.

8 Pagany, 2, 4 (October-December 1931), 102-104, “Three Poems: Sylvia, Salons; The Athletes”; 3, 1 (January-March 1932), 100-103, “Three Poems: Frankfort and Bethlehem 8/10; Paris 9/8; Foyer, The Orpheum 12/10.”

9 Hound and Horn, 5, 4 (October-December 1931), 602-605.

10 An “Objectivists” Anthology), pp. 47-52; 164. Amulet, pp. 58-62, 13, 50; 67.

11 Zukofsky, Letter to Rakosi, 15 September 1931, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.

12 Zukofsky, Letter to Rakosi, 26 September 1931, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.

13 Zukofsky, Letter to Rakosi, 7 October 1931, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.

14 Zukofsky, Letters to Pound, 12 October 1931, Yale, Pound/Zukofsky, pp. 99-101, No. 40, and 21 October 1931, Yale.

15 Williams, Letter to Pound, 8 December 1931, Selected Letters, p. 117, No. 85.

16 Zukofsky, Letters to Pound, 17 December 1931 and 15 March 1932, Yale.

17 Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 22 January 1931, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.

18 Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 18 February 1931, Yale.

19 Zukofsky, Letter to Zabel, 2b August 1931, Zabel Papers, Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library, box III, folder 27.

20 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 15 October 1931, Yale.

21 Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 2 January 1932, Yale.

22 Poetry (February 1931), 294.

23 Meaning a Life, p. 96.

24 Meaning a Life, pp. 90-91.

25 Meaning a Life, pp. 96, 119. Zukofsky received a letter from Oppen from Le Havre before 25 May 1931, according to Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 25 May 1931, Yale.

26 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 15 October 1931, Yale.

27 Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 27 November 1931, Yale.

28 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 7 December 1931, Yale. Pound/Zukofsky, pp. 107-114, No. 43.

29 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 10 December 1931, Yale. Pound/Zukofsky, pp. 114-119, No. 44. Mary Oppen wrote that they did not know of plans to publish Pound’s complete works; Meaning a Life, p. 210.

30 Zukofsky, Letter to Zabel, 29 December 1931, Zabel Papers Department of Special Collections, box III, folder 27.

31 Williams, Letter to Zukofsky 18 November 1931, Yale. The Correspondence, pp. 113-114.

32 Williams, Letter to Zukofsky, 8 December 1931, Yale. The Correspondence, p. 116.

33 Williams, Letter to Zukofsky, December 1931, Yale. The Correspondence, p. 118.

34 Pound, Letter to Oppen and Zukofsky, 23 December 1931, Yale.

35 Meaning a Life, p. 131.

36 Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 5 March 1932, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.

37 Meaning a Life, p. 131.

38 Williams, Letter to Johns, 30 December 1931, A Return to Pagany: The History, Correspondence, and Selections from a Little Magazine 1929-1932, eds. Stephen Halbert and Richard Jones, intr Kenneth Rexroth (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969), p. 372.

39 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 22 January 1932, Yale. Wallace, A Bibliography of William Carlos Williams, p. 30, No. A12. Published 1 January 1932.

40 Gallup, A Bibliography of Ezra Pound, p. 74, No. A336.

41 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 15 March 1932, Yale.

42 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 20 April 1932, Yale.

43 Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 25 “Lug” 1932, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.

44 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 8 August 1932, Yale. Pound/Zukofsky, pp. 132-133, No. 50.

45 Zukofsky, Letters to Pound, 11 November 1931, 8 August 1932, 8 October 1932, Yale.

46 Gallup, p. 264, No. C873.

47 Meaning a Life, pp. 135-136.

48 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 12 November 1932, Yale.

49 Meaning a Life, p. 132.

50 Meaning a Life, p. 147.

51 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 17 April 1933, Yale.

52 Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 28 April 1933, Yale.

53 Williams, Letter to Zukofsky, 28 April 1933, Yale. The Correspondence, p. 154.

54 Williams, Letter to Zukofsky, 6 May 1933, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. The Correspondence, p. 155.

55 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 11 May 1933, Yale.

56 Williams, “THE WRITERS PUBLISHERS, Inc.,” Yale, with this note: “Suggested by WCW June 1933.” I have corrected two obvious typographical errors.

57 Williams, Letter to Zukofsky, 24 May 1933, Yale. The Correspondence, p. 158.

58 Meaning a Life, pp. 144-145.

59 Pound, Letter to Williams, 22 November 1930, Selected Letters, p. 229, No. 244. Williams, Letter to Pound, 8 December 1931, Selected Letters, p. 117, No. 85. See also Charles Norman, Ezra Pound, Revised Edition (New York: Minerva Press, 1969), pp. 309, 313.

60 Zukofsky’s last letter to Pound before leaving the U.S is dated 15 June 1933; his first in Europe is dated 12 July 1933.

61 Norman, p. 316.

62 Norman, pp. 318-319.

63 See Williams, The Autobiography, p. 264.

64 Williams, “Synopsis of suggestions discussed and general agreements arrived at at meeting Sept. 24. Writers-Publishers to be incorporated,” Yale.

65 Williams, Letter to Zukofsky, 5 October 1933, Yale.

66 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 23 October 1933, Yale.

67 The Contemporary Writer, p. 173.

68 Williams, Letter to Zukofsky, 26 November 1933, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin; The Correspondence, p. 171. Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 16 November 1933, Yale.

69 I Wanted to Write a Poem, p. 52.

70 Wallace, pp. 34-35.

71 I Wanted to Write a Poem, p. 52.

72 The Contemporary Writer, p. 210.

73 An “Objectivists” Anthology, pp. 92-97. Contact (Second series), 1, 1 (February 1932), 14-34; 1, 2 (May 1932), 99-108.

74 Kenneth Burke, “The Matter of the Document,” intro. Testimony (New York: The Objectivist Press, 1934), pp. ix-xvi.

75 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 23 May 1934, Yale. Pound/Zukofsky, pp. 159-160, No. 65.

76 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 12 April 1934, Yale. Pound/Zukofsky, pp. 156-157, No. 63.

77 Williams, Letter to Zukofsky, 1 June 1934, Yale. The Correspondence, p. 186.

78 Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 6 February 1934, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.

79 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 11 May 1935, Yale.

80 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, Yooltide 1935, Yale.

81 Meaning a Life, p. 151.

82 Personal interview with Celia Zukofsky, 8 June 1979, Port Jefferson, NY. A Bibliography of Louis Zukofsky, p. 49.