John Rodker

John Rodker

Poet, novelist and publisher. He succeeded Ezra Pound as foreign editor of The Little Review in 1919. With his then-wife Mary Butts he started the short-lived Ovid Press in London which issued editions of Pound and T. S. Eliot. Rodker met JJ in Paris in July 1920. After Shakespeare and Company's first edition of Ulysses in 1922, he published a second edition in October 1922 for the Egoist Press of London and a third edition in January 1923. Rodker contributed an essay on the future Finnegans Wake to Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress (1929). William Brockman