Ezra Pound reading Galdós
Sep 22nd, 2009 by houghtonmodern
We’ve just received a new addition to our collection of association copies, an 1897 edition of Benito Pérez Galdós’s realist novel, Doña Perfecta, owned and annotated by American intellectual Ezra Pound (1885-1972).
Pound probably acquired the work in 1905, and annotated the text with numerous notes and translations. In a letter written to Iris Barry, circa 1916, Pound wrote, “Spain has one good modern novelist, Galdós.”
*AC9.P8654.Zz897p. Purchased with the P.D. Howe fund. Houghton Library, Harvard University.