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David Moody

Biography

David Moody's current research is concerned with Ezra Pound in particular and modern American and British poetry in general.

His earlier interests are represented by his books Virginia Woolf (1963) and Shakespeare's ‘The Merchant of Venice' (1964), by articles on Samuel Johnson's poetry and Henry James's novels, and by two books of verse, At the Antipodes: Homage to Paul Valéry (1982) and News Odes: The El Salvador Sequence (1984). He is the author of Thomas Stearns Eliot: Poet (1979, 1994) and Tracing T.S. Eliot's Spirit (1996), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to T.S. Eliot (1994).

He has published articles on Pound (1975, 1980, 1982, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2014), and has written a three volume critical biography of the poet: Ezra Pound: Poet. A Portrait of the Man & His Work. The first volume, The Young Genius 1885-1920, was published by Oxford University Press in 2007, the second, The Epic Years, 1921-1939, in 2014, and the third volume, The Tragic Years, 1939-1972, in 2015. With Mary de Rachewiltz and Joanna Moody he edited Ezra Pound to His Parents. Letters 1895-1929 (2010) – this was awarded the Ezra Pound Society Book Prize in 2011.

 

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Professor David Moody
Department of English and Related Literature
University of York
Heslington
York
Y010 5DD

Tel: 44 1904 323366
Fax: 44 1904 323372