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Agenda (poetry Journal)
''Agenda'' is a literary journal published in London and founded by William Cookson. ''Agenda Editions'' is an imprint of the journal operating as a small press. History and editorial orientation ''Agenda'' was started in 1959, after Cookson had met Ezra Pound in Italy the previous year. Pound had originally suggested that Cookson edit pages in an existing publication, but when these plans did not come to fruition, the bookseller and poet Peter Russell suggested that Cookson found his own magazine. ''Agenda'' was edited with Peter Dale and then Patricia McCarthy, who continues to edit the journal following Cookson's death in 2003. The editorial preoccupations of ''Agenda'' reflected Cookson's own passions. The journal continued to champion Pound long after the poet's death. A "Special Issue in Honour of Ezra Pound's Eighty-Fifth Birthday" (Vol. 8, Nos. 3–4) was a significant early issue of the journal in 1970, and a special issue on "Dante, Ezra Pound and Contemporary Poet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cookson (poet)
William Cookson (8 May 1939–2 January 2003) was a British poet, writer on poetry and literary editor, best known for his poetry magazine ''Agenda'', regarded as one of the most influential of its sge. He was brought up in Surrey and London, and educated at Westminster School and New College, Oxford. At 16, he started a correspondence with Ezra Pound, who started mentoring him and introducing him to his network of contacts. In October 1958, aged 19, he travelled to Italy to meet him, and as a result of this visit, decided to become an editor, launching his magazine ''Agenda'', in January 1959. Initially, ''Agenda'' continued Pound's economic and political ideas at the time of composing ''Thrones'' (1959). However, after a year of experimenting, Cookson reoriented his magazine towards contemporary poetry, and stayed faithful to this direction until his death in 200. Politically, he became a socialist. In artistic terms, Cookson remained devoted to Pound throughout his life, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Davie
Donald Alfred Davie, FBA (17 July 1922 – 18 September 1995) was an English Movement poet, and literary critic. His poems in general are philosophical and abstract, but often evoke various landscapes. Biography Davie was born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, a son of Baptist parents. He began his education at Barnsley Holgate Grammar School, and he later attended St Catharine's College, Cambridge. His studies there were interrupted by service during the war in the Royal Navy in Arctic Russia, where he taught himself the language. In the last year of the war, in Devon, he married Doreen John. He returned to Cambridge in 1946 and received his B.A., M.A. and PhD. He was a fellow of Trinity College Dublin from 1954 to 1957, and then a fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge from 1959 until 1964. In 1964 Davie was made the first Professor of English at the new University of Essex. He taught English there until 1968, when he moved to Stanford University, succeeding Yvor Winters. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |