How much?
Ian Hamilton: Literary pay and literary prizes, 18 June 1998
Guide to Literary Prizes, 1998
edited by Huw Molseed.
Book Trust, 38 pp., £3.99, May 1998,0 85353 475 6 Show More
edited by Huw Molseed.
Book Trust, 38 pp., £3.99, May 1998,
The Cost of Letters: A Survey of Literary Living Standards
edited by Andrew Holgate and Honor Wilson-Fletcher.
W Magazine, 208 pp., £2, May 1998,0 9527405 9 1 Show More
edited by Andrew Holgate and Honor Wilson-Fletcher.
W Magazine, 208 pp., £2, May 1998,
“... One of the most amusing – or, if you prefer it, one of the most heartwarming – episodes in the history of early Modernism centres on Ezra Pound’s attempt to ‘liberate’ T.S. Eliot from his clerk’s job at Lloyds Bank. In 1921, Pound started up a fund called Bel Esprit and set about trying to persuade 30 subscribers to fork out ten pounds each: £300 p ... ”
