Ezra Pound Letters Books in Order

Ezra Pound Letters by Ezra Pound contains 17 books, published between 1950 and 2014. The first book is Selected Letters, 1907-1941 (1950) and the newest is The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and the Frobenius Institute, 1930-1959 (2014). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
17
Published
1950–2014
Pages on record
4,643 in 16 of 17 books
Reading time
77–116 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,643 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 16 of 17 titles with a page count on record.

Ezra Pound Letters is a series of 17 volumes collecting the correspondence of the American poet Ezra Pound (1885–1972). Selected Letters, 1907-1941 (1950) is the first volume, and The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and the Frobenius Institute, 1930-1959 (2014) the most recent. Volumes pairing Pound with a correspondent include Pound-Joyce (1969), Pound/Zukofsky (1987), Ezra Pound and James Laughlin (1989) and Pound / Williams (1996). Subject tags include correspondence, critics, artists and intellectual life.

How many Ezra Pound Letters books are there?

Ezra Pound Letters has 17 books, released between 1950 and 2014.

Ezra Pound Letters Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 17 Ezra Pound Letters books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. 1
    Selected Letters, 1907-19411950 · 358 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1950358
  2. 2
    Pound-Joyce1969 · 1 pages · confirmed 1/4
    19691
  3. 3
    Letters to Ibbotson, 1935-19521979 · 145 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1979145
  4. 4
    Ezra Pound And Dorothy Shakespear1984 · 399 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1984399
  5. 5
    Pound / Lewis1985 · 346 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1985346
  6. 6
    Pound/Zukofsky1987 · 255 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1987255
  7. 7
    Ezra Pound and James Laughlin1989 · 313 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1989313
  8. 8
    The Letters of Ezra Pound to Alice Corbin Henderson1993 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1993256
  9. 9
    Pound / Williams1996 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996352
  10. 10
    Pound / Cummings1996 · 442 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996442
  11. 11
    Dear Uncle George1996 · 234 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996234
  12. 12
    I Cease Not to Yowl1998 · 327 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998327
  13. 13
    Ezra and Dorothy Pound1999 · 398 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999398
  14. 142001
  15. 15200195
  16. 16
    Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends2008 · 242 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2008242
  17. 172014480

Is there a chronological order for Ezra Pound Letters?

No separate chronological order is on record for Ezra Pound Letters, because none of the book listings this catalogue draws on publishes one; the publication order above is the only order given.

Do you have to read Ezra Pound Letters books in order?

You should read the Ezra Pound Letters books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Ezra Pound Letters book also stands alone.

Where to start with Ezra Pound Letters

Start with Selected Letters, 1907-1941 (1950), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Ezra Pound Letters book?

The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and the Frobenius Institute, 1930-1959 (2014) is the newest Ezra Pound Letters book released so far.

Is there a new Ezra Pound Letters book coming?

No next Ezra Pound Letters book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Ezra Pound Letters at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Ezra Pound Letters title on record dates from 2014, 12 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Ezra Pound Letters books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
Length
4,643 pages across the 16 of 17 books with a recorded length, a median of 320 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Ezra Pound Letters books, 6 of 17, were published in the 1990s.

What the Ezra Pound Letters books are about

14 of the 17 Ezra Pound Letters books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: poets is tagged on 13 of 14. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Poets 13 of 14 books
  • Correspondence 13 of 14 books
  • Pound, ezra, 1885-1972 9 of 14 books
  • Poets, correspondence 6 of 14 books
  • Critics 5 of 14 books
  • Correspondence (Joyce, James) 2 of 14 books
  • Correspondence (Pound, Ezra) 2 of 14 books
  • Correspondencia 2 of 14 books
  • Intellectual life 2 of 14 books
  • Literature, history and criticism 2 of 14 books

More books by Ezra Pound

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.