Dorothy Shakespear
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Dorothy Shakespear (1886 - 1973) was an English artist, the daughter of Olivia Shakespear (a novelist and sometime lover of W.B. Yeats) and the wife of the poet Ezra Pound.
She was a member of the Vorticism movement, and some of her work appeared in its journal BLAST.
Shakespear and Pound married on April 20th 1914. They moved to Paris in 1920, remaining married despite Pound's relationship with violinist Olga Rudge from 1923 onward. In 1926, Shakespear went on a visit to Egypt and came back pregnant; her son, Omar, whose father is unknown, was raised by his grandmother.[1] In 1924, she and Pound settled in Rapallo, Italy.
After World War II, when Pound was incarcerated in a mental hospital after having been indicted for treasonous activities against the United States and in support of Mussolini's fascist regime, Dorothy Pound moved to Washington in 1946 to be near her husband, and thereafter had legal control of his estate. After his release, twelve years later, they returned to Italy, but her husband moved to Venice with Olga Rudge while she remained alone in Rapallo.[1]
[edit] References
- Lionel Kelly, "Pound, Ezra Loomis (1885–1972)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 20 Aug 2007
- ^ a b Ezra and Dorothy Pound, Letters in Captivity, 1945-1946, ed. Omar Pound and Robert Spoo, Oxford, ISBN 0195107934 review by Marjorie Perfloff
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