The Poets of Rapallo

Graham Price, Irish Studies Review The Poets of Rapallo is a work that students and established scholars of modernism will never fail to find less than stimulating ... Without a doubt, it will provoke lively debate and discussion within academic circles for some time to come: between those who agree with, and those who dispute some of its contentions.

L. Simon, CHOICE A fresh, insightful literary history.

Brian Maye, Irish Times Meticulously researched and clearly and comprehensibly written.

Daniel Swift, Literary Review The most valuable reading Arrington offers is of the works by Pound's long-neglected wife, Dorothy... Arrington convincingly draws out the parallels between Dorothy's paintings of Roman architecture and the fascist ideal of a 'return to order'.

William Wall, Dublin Review of Books [A] beautifully produced and meticulously researched book ... The weight of material associated with the women of the group is valuable and fascinating [and] an important balance to the misogynistic, homophobic and masculinist influence of Pound.

Dominic Green, Wall Street Journal a fascinating, intricate study of Pound's first steps on the road to perdition, and the cast of fellow travelers, Yeats among them, who went part of the way with him and then covered their tracks.

Noonie Minogue, The Tablet This book has a depth of detail and breadth of reference that will make it invaluable for those already familiar with intellectual currents between the wars... the theme of friendship disavowed speaks painfully to our times. Arrington brilliantly traces the toing and froing between rage and affectionate loyalty, and the way members of the group accommodated eccentricity, suspending judgement - until they couldn't.

L. Simon, CHOICE A fresh, insightful literary history. Highly recommended.

David Luhrssen, Shepherd Express Lauren Arrington is a careful, nuanced scholar, weighing words carefully.

Sean Pryor, Australian Book Review Arrington's archival research is especially impressive, and the unpublished correspondence and other drafts that she has uncovered flesh out the frequently fractious relationships between her protagonists... [The Poets of Rapallo is] a sharp, controlled study of an influential literary network, and of shifting debates about art and politics, in a country descending into political hell.

Stephanie Burt, Professor of English at Harvard University Lauren Arrington writes a literary history at once super-informed and consistently surprising, even to those who think they know the territory. Ezra Pound's colony-village-retreat-beachhead-Utopia-publishing venture at Rapallo, under Arrington's scholarly scrutinyand in her welcome, lucid proseturns out to be the semi-hidden hinge for modernist journals, for Basil Bunting (who did more work there than Bunting fans suppose), and above all for the later intellectual and artistic developments in the work of W. B. Yeats. Ballads...

Lauren Arrington is Professor of English at Maynooth University, where she also serves as Head of Department. She has held distinguished visiting fellowships at Boston College, Trinity College Dublin's Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and Cambridge University's Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities. From 2009 to 2019, she worked at the University of Liverpool, where she reached the rank of Professor of Modern Literature. She was Adrian Research Fellow in English at Darwin College Cambridge from 2008 to 2009. Her doctorate is from Oxford University. In addition to her scholarly books with Oxford University Press, Clemson University Press, and Princeton University Press, her writing has appeared in TLS and the Irish Times.

A Brief Chronology of Comings and Goings 1: The Roads to Rapallo 2: Shell-Shocked Walt Whitmans 3: Primavera 1928 4: Singing School 5: Making Living History 6: Accounting for Rapallo Selected Bibliography