Editing Ezra Pound (section)

===Meeting Hemingway, editing ''The Waste Land''===
[[File:Ezra Pound passport photograph undated.jpg|left|thumb|upright=0.9|Pound's passport photograph, c.&nbsp;1919<ref name=":2"/>]]

The Pounds settled in Paris around April 1921 and in December moved to an inexpensive ground-floor apartment at 70 ''bis'' {{ill|Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, Paris|lt=Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs|fr|Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs}}.<ref>Carpenter (1988), 402–403; Wilhelm (1990), 287.</ref> Pound became friendly with [[Marcel Duchamp]], [[Fernand Léger]], [[Tristan Tzara]], and others of the [[Dada]] and [[Surrealism|Surrealist]] movements, as well as [[Basil Bunting]].<ref name="Meyers 1985 70 74">Meyers (1985), 70–74</ref> He was introduced to the American writer [[Gertrude Stein]], who was living in Paris. She wrote years later that she liked him but did not find him amusing; he was "a village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not".<ref>Stein (1933), 246; Carpenter (1988), 400</ref>

Pound's collection ''Poems 1918–1921'' was published in New York by Boni and Liveright in 1921. In December that year [[Ernest Hemingway]], then aged 22, moved to Paris with his wife, [[Hadley Richardson]], and letters of introduction from [[Sherwood Anderson]].<ref>Cohassey (2014), 6</ref> In February 1922 the Hemingways visited the Pounds for tea.<ref>Cohassey (2014), 7–8</ref> Although Pound was 14 years older, the men became friends; Hemingway assumed the status of pupil and asked Pound to [[Blue pencil (editing)|edit]] his short stories.<ref>Meyers (1985), 74–75</ref> Pound introduced him to his contacts, including Lewis, Ford, [[John Peale Bishop]], [[Malcolm Cowley]], and [[Derek Patmore]], while Hemingway tried to teach Pound to box.<ref>Meyers (1985), 74</ref> Unlike Hemingway, Pound was not a drinker and preferred to spend his time in salons<ref>Cohassey (2014), 12</ref> or building furniture for his apartment and bookshelves for [[Sylvia Beach]]'s [[Shakespeare and Company (1919–1941)|Shakespeare and Company]] bookstore.<ref name=Bornstein2001p33/>

[[File:Olga Rudge advertisement.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|alt=photograph|[[Olga Rudge]], 1920]]
Eliot sent Pound the manuscript of ''[[The Waste Land]]'' in 1922. Pound edited it with comments like "make up yr. mind",<ref name=Bornstein2001p33>Bornstein (2001), 33–34</ref> and reduced it by about half. Eliot wrote in 1946: "I should like to think that the manuscript, with the suppressed passages, had disappeared irrecoverably; yet, on the other hand, I should wish the blue pencilling on it to be preserved as irrefutable evidence of Pound's critical genius."<ref>[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=68&issue=6&page=34 Eliot (1946)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201013155225/https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=68&issue=6&page=34 |date=13 October 2020 }}, 330</ref> His dedication in ''The Waste Land'' was "For Ezra Pound / ''il miglior fabbro''" (the "better craftsman"), from Canto 26 of Dante's ''Purgatorio''.<ref>Bornstein (2001), 34</ref>