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...became a sort of provincial Remy de Gourmont," says Critic Malcolm Cowley in his introduction to Selected Writings. "As a newspaperman he could publish translations from Gautier and Loti that were daring for the time, besides original sketches that the magazines would have rejected as being godless or indecent (or simply overwritten...
...demon-angel, in full flight across the face of the world," transported the work to Paris. The French were even more shocked than the English. Says Author Black: "This simplified and symbolic statue was violently objected to because it possessed genitals." To the fury of Critic Remy de Gourmont, author of a famed biological theory of esthetics, puritanical Frenchmen covered the offending fact with a large bronze fig leaf...
...number of the "Glebe", a publication edited by Alfred Kreymborg (1914); "Des Imagistes"--Published by the Poetry Bookshop, London (1914); "Personal" London (1916), Elkin Mathew; "Lustra," Privato Edition; New York (1917); "Umbra; The early poems of Ezra Pound," London (1920); "Physique de I'Amour," by Remy de Gourmont, translated by Ezra Pound, London (1921); 'Sixteen Cantos of Ezra Pound," Paris (1926), Three Mountains Press. "Oatholic Anthology," selected and edited by Ezra Pound, London (1915), Elkin Mathew...
...Gourmont: Esthetique de la Langue Francaise...
...Museum is now being shown an exhibition of French Prints--etchings, engravings, woodcuts, and lithographs, dating from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Included in the work of the earlier masters are prints by Jean Duvet, one of the first to practise the art of engraving in France; Jean Gourmont, "the best representative of the spirit of the German Little Masters transplanted in France"; and portraits by Mellan, Morin, and Nanteuil, the head of the French school of portrait engraving; Antoine Masson, a serious rival of Nanteuil's fame; Edelinck and Pierre Drevet, who in his portraits developed an exaggerated...