Pavannes and Divagations (1958)
A74
Editions
a. First edition
EZRA POUND | PAVANNES | AND | DIVAGATIONS | A NEW DIRECTIONS BOOK
xi, 243 pp. 1 illus. (facsim.), 1 plate (port.) 21.8 X 14.7 cm. Brown cloth boards lettered in white down the spine; end-papers. White dust-jacket printed in black and yellow.
Published 10 July 1958 at $4.75; 4000 copies printed. On verso of witle-leaf: ... New Directions Books are published by James Laughlin at Norfolk, Connecticut. New York office at 333 Sixth Avenue (14). CK design. Printed in the United States of America. ... “Many of Ezra Pound’s contributions to modern literature appeared originally in little magazines, in pamphlets, and in books which went quickly out of print. The present collection has been made in order to bring before the public today works which have been difficult to obtain for many years. Some pieces in this book are published here for the first time, most have been taken from a variety of out-of-the-way sources, and a very few, reprinted from Mr. Pound’s other well known collections, have been included because they seem in keeping with the spirit of the rest.” (“Publisher’s note,” p. [i])
Contents: Epitaph by Rex Lampman—Indiscretions, or Une revue de deux mondes—Imaginary Letters—pavaNnes: Jodindranath Mawhwor’s Occupation—An Anachronism at Chinon—Religio or, The Child’s Guide to Knowledge—Aux étuves de Wiesbaden—Stark Realism—Twelve Dialogues of Fontenelle—Chronicles from Blast: 1. “Lest the Future Age ... ”; 2. On the Rage or Peevishness which Greeted the First Number of Blast; 3. Lawrence [sic] Binyon—Madox Ford at Rapallo—A Matter of Modesty—Genesis or, The First Book in the Bible—Our Tetrarchal Précieuse—Postscript to The Natural Philosophy of Love by Remy de Gourmont—Musicians: God Help Em—rrivouities: The Sneeze—Mr. Housman’s Message—The New Cake of Soap—Ancient Music—Our Contemporaries—M. Pom-Pom—Abu Salammamm-A Song of Empire—“In 1914 There Was Mertons”—Words for Roundel in Double Canon— “Neath Ben Bulben’s Buttoks Lies”—apuorisms: Definition—Mencken—The Value—The Fable—APPENDIX: POEMS BY 5 FRIENDS: Cat by Maurice Craig— Neothomist Poem by Ernest Hemingway—Home-Thoughts, from an Old Lag by Barry Domville—4 Poems by Saturno Montanari with EP’s “Guides” to Them—Poem and Drawing by Jaime de Angulo [with “De Angulo’s Poem Translated,” by E. P.]
Note: New Directions also published an edition of this book paperbound in New York 16 April 1975 at $3.45 as their Paperbook 397, in a first printing of 4000 copies. (The verso of the title-leaf gives the date incorrectly as 1974.)
b. First English (offset) edition ([1960])
EZRA POUND | PAVANNES | AND | DIVAGATIONS | PETER OWEN LIMITED [London]
96 Xi, 243 pp., incl. illus. (facsim.) 22.2 x 14.1 cm. Blue cloth boards stamped in gold on spine; end-papers. Yellow dust-jacket printed in lavender.
Published 29 April 1960 at 25s.; 1000 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: ... Made and Printed in Great Britain by Lowe and Brydone (Printers) Ltd. London, N. W. 10 First Published in the British Commonwealth 1960 ... [Printed by offset from the first edition, but omitting the plate.]
Content is now editable.