The artist Wyndham Lewis first met Sturge Moore, brother of the philosopher G. E. Moore, at the Vienna Café around 1902; the men became great friends.[4] Lewis was there with Sturge in 1910 when he was introduced to the American poet Ezra Pound.[5] Pound, who lived in London from 1908 to 1921, had arrived in the café that day with Laurence Binyon,[6] assistant keeper in the British Museum Print Room.[7]
The café had a triangular room on the first floor with a mirrored ceiling, "which reflected all your actions", Lewis wrote, "as if in a lake suspended above your head". The writers met at a couple of tables on the south side of that room.[15] According to Jeffrey Meyers, the café was a haunt of European émigrés and was furnished at the time "in the Danubian mode with red plush chairs and seats".[16] The owners were Austrians or Germans, who became "alien enemies" when the war began, and as a result the business had to close.[17]
The Vienna Café made an appearance, as the "Wiener Café", in Pound's "Canto LXXX" of The Pisan Cantos (1948):
And also near the museum they served it mit Schlag in those days (pre 1914) the loss of that café meant the end of a B. M. era (British Museum era) Mr Lewis had been to Spain Mr Binyon's young prodigies pronounced the word: Penthesilea There were mysterious figures that emerged from recondite recesses and ate at the WIENER CAFÉ which died into banking [...] So it is to Mr Binyon that I owe, initially, Mr Lewis, Mr P. Wyndham Lewis. His bull-dog, me, as it were against old Sturge M's bull-dog, Mr T. Sturge Moore's bull-dog, et meum et propositum, it is my intention in tabernam,[b] or was, to the Wiener café[18]
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Pound, Ezra (1974) [June 1914]. "How I Began". In Grace Schulman (ed.). Ezra Pound: A Collection of Criticism. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 23–26. ISBN0-07-055634-2
Shaheen, Mohammad Y. (Fall & Winter 1983). "Pound and Blunt: Homage for Apathy". Paideuma: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. 12(2/3), 281–288. JSTOR 4726010
Starr, Alan (Spring 1982). "Tarr and Wyndham Lewis". ELH. 49(1), 179–189. JSTOR 2872887
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Timms, Edward (2015) [2013]. "Coffeehouses and Tea Parties: Conversational Spaces as a Stimulus to Creativity in Sigmund Freud's Vienna and Virginia Woolf's London". In Charlotte Ashby, Tag Gronberg, Simon Shaw-Miller (eds.). The Viennese Cafe and Fin-de-Siecle Culture. Berghahn Books, 199–220. ISBN978-1-78238-926-2
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Further readingedit
Brown, Mark (25 March 2009). "Enthusiasts mark centenary of modern poetry". The Guardian.
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The Vienna Cafe was a coffee house and restaurant at 24 28 New Oxford Street London Located opposite Mudie s Lending Library and near the British Museum Reading Room in Bloomsbury it became known in the early 20th century as a meeting place for writers artists and intellectuals 1 Regular visitors included Ezra Pound H G Wells and W B Yeats Vienna Cafe Oxford Street 29 April 1897 the first floor room with its mirrored ceiling where the writers satThe cafe was listed in the 1889 Baedeker Guide for London a It closed in 1914 shortly after the outbreak of World War I 3 Contents 1 Regulars 2 Appearance in The Cantos 3 See also 4 Notes 5 Sources 5 1 References 5 2 Works cited 6 Further readingRegulars edit nbsp Vienna Cafe ground floor 29 April 1897The artist Wyndham Lewis first met Sturge Moore brother of the philosopher G E Moore at the Vienna Cafe around 1902 the men became great friends 4 Lewis was there with Sturge in 1910 when he was introduced to the American poet Ezra Pound 5 Pound who lived in London from 1908 to 1921 had arrived in the cafe that day with Laurence Binyon 6 assistant keeper in the British Museum Print Room 7 Pound noted in How I Began 1914 that he had lunch in the cafe after completing his poem Ballad of the Goodly Fere 1909 in the British Museum Reading Room 8 H G Wells also used the Vienna Cafe 9 as did Amy Lowell Henri Gaudier Brzeska C R W Nevinson T E Hulme 10 R A Streatfeild 7 Robert McAlmon 11 and W B Yeats Yeats arranged to have lunch there on 16 January 1905 with the art critic D S MacColl 12 In a letter to Wilfrid Blunt in October 1914 Pound wrote Yeats complains that the closing of Vienna Cafe costs him more inconvenience than the fall of Antwerp 13 The poet Henry Newbolt referred to the group he met in the Vienna Cafe for lunch after using the Reading Room as the Anglo Austrians Laurence Binyon Walter Crum Oswald Valentine Sickert and Barclay Squire were regulars Others he saw there included Samuel Butler Festing Jones Selwyn Image John Masefield Luigi Villari Frederic Baron Corvo Lawrence Weaver Roger Fry Edward Garnett and a son of Giovanni Segantini The waiter was Joseph an Italian Newbolt wrote that they lived mainly on excellent Viennese dishes and talked faster and more irresponsibly than any group of equal numbers he could remember 14 The cafe had a triangular room on the first floor with a mirrored ceiling which reflected all your actions Lewis wrote as if in a lake suspended above your head The writers met at a couple of tables on the south side of that room 15 According to Jeffrey Meyers the cafe was a haunt of European emigres and was furnished at the time in the Danubian mode with red plush chairs and seats 16 The owners were Austrians or Germans who became alien enemies when the war began and as a result the business had to close 17 Appearance in The Cantos editFurther information The Cantos nbsp Ezra Pound by Wyndham Lewis 1919The Vienna Cafe made an appearance as the Wiener Cafe in Pound s Canto LXXX of The Pisan Cantos 1948 And also near the museum they served it mit Schlag in those days pre 1914 the loss of that cafe meant the end of a B M era British Museum era Mr Lewis had been to Spain Mr Binyon s young prodigies pronounced the word Penthesilea There were mysterious figures that emerged from recondite recesses and ate at the WIENER CAFE which died into banking So it is to Mr Binyon that I owe initially Mr Lewis Mr P Wyndham Lewis His bull dog me as it were against old Sturge M s bull dog Mr T Sturge Moore s bull dog et meum et propositum it is my intention in tabernam b or was to the Wiener cafe 18 See also editEnglish coffeehouses in the 17th and 18th centuries Viennese coffee houseNotes edit Baedeker Guide 1889 Vienna Cafe corner of Oxford Street and Hart Street near the British Museum 2 It is my intention to die in a tavern Sources editReferences edit Glinert 2007 41 Betsworth 2012 41 42 for the library Yeats 2005 21 n 3 Baedeker 1889 16 Glinert 2007 41 Meyers 1982 26 Tytell 1987 102 Terrell 1993 441 Brooker 2007 53 Tytell 1987 102 a b Meyers 1982 32 Pound 1974 25 Lewis 1967 281 Timms 2015 203 Starr 1982 183 Yeats 2005 21 Shaheen 1993 281 Newbolt 1932 209 210 Lewis 1982 280 Timms 2015 203 Meyers 1982 31 Lewis 1967 280 Pound 2003 80 462 486 84 85 Terrell 1993 441 Works cited edit Baedeker Karl 1889 London and Its Environs Handbook for Travellers Volume 188 Leipzig Baedeker Betsworth Leon 2012 The Cafe in Modernist Literature Wyndham Lewis Ernest Hemingway Jean Rhys University of East Anglia Brooker Peter 2007 2004 Bohemia in London The Social Scene of Early Modernism Basingstoke and New York Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 978 0 230 54692 9 Glinert Ed 2007 Literary London A Street by Street Exploration of the Capital s Literary Heritage London Penguin Books Lewis Wyndham 1967 1937 Blasting amp Bombardiering London Calder and Boyars Myers Jeffrey 1982 The Enemy A Biography of Wyndham Lewis Boston Routledge amp Keegan Paul ISBN 0 7100 9351 9 Newbolt Henry 1932 My World As in My Time Memoirs 1862 1932 London Faber amp Faber OCLC 903562977 Pound Ezra 1974 June 1914 How I Began In Grace Schulman ed Ezra Pound A Collection of Criticism New York McGraw Hill Book Company 23 26 ISBN 0 07 055634 2 Pound Ezra 2003 1948 The Pisan Cantos Edited by Richard Sieburth New York New Directions Books ISBN 978 0 8112 1558 9 Shaheen Mohammad Y Fall amp Winter 1983 Pound and Blunt Homage for Apathy Paideuma Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 12 2 3 281 288 JSTOR 4726010 Starr Alan Spring 1982 Tarr and Wyndham Lewis ELH 49 1 179 189 JSTOR 2872887 Terrell Carroll F 1993 1980 1984 A Companion to The Cantos of Ezra Pound Berkeley University of California Press ISBN 0 520 08287 7 Timms Edward 2015 2013 Coffeehouses and Tea Parties Conversational Spaces as a Stimulus to Creativity in Sigmund Freud s Vienna and Virginia Woolf s London In Charlotte Ashby Tag Gronberg Simon Shaw Miller eds The Viennese Cafe and Fin de Siecle Culture Berghahn Books 199 220 ISBN 978 1 78238 926 2 Tytell John 1987 Ezra Pound The Solitary Volcano New York Anchor Press Doubleday ISBN 0 385 19694 6 Yeats William Butler 2005 The Collected Letters of W B Yeats Volume IV 1905 1907 Edited by John Kelly and Ronald Schuchard New York Oxford University Press Further reading editBrown Mark 25 March 2009 Enthusiasts mark centenary of modern poetry The Guardian 51 31 02 N 0 07 29 W 51 5173 N 0 1246 W 51 5173 0 1246 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Vienna Cafe amp oldid 1137889698, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
