Ann Wroe
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865 appearances
15 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 21 Aug
Ann Wroe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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An indictment of treason.
In absentia.
And as soon as American troops liberated Italy in nineteen forty five, they arrested him.
And they put him in a cage because they assumed he was crazy.
And unfit to stand trial.
Then he was taken to America and he was kept for thirteen years in a psychiatric hospital in a locked cell.
Mary had to work out what on earth to do about this.
However, she did fight against any imputation that he was insane because he wrote her long lucid letters from the hospital, and he was also still working on his huge poem The Cantos.
She realized that not only was her father, unjustly as she thought, put into this hospital.
But suddenly his literary reputation lay in tatters.
No one would touch him.
In the nineteen twenties and he had been put on the same ranking as T.
S.
Elliot.
And he had helped him finish the wasteland, as well as helping James Joyce get Ulysses published.
He was a friend of Hemingway's and he was in the very forefront of literary endeavor in the twenties.
А на сем' тобі нобіді.
He was locked up with insane people.
So one of the things she did was to keep going on the cantos, keep translating them.
Until in nineteen eighty five, which was actually thirteen years after Ezra had died, she at last produced the first dual language version of them in English and Italian.
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