The Cantos of Ezra Pound
Title | The Cantos of Ezra Pound PDF eBook |
Author | Ezra Pound |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 836 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780811213264 |
The Cantos of Ezra Pound is the most important epic poem of the twentieth century.
Selected Cantos of Ezra Pound
Title | Selected Cantos of Ezra Pound PDF eBook |
Author | Ezra Pound |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780811201605 |
This selection from the Cantos was made by Ezra Pound himself in 1965. It is intended to "indicate main elements" in the long poem -- his personal epic -- with which he was engaged for more than fifty years. His choice includes, of course, a number of the Cantos most admired by critics and anthologists, such as Canto XIII ("Kung [Confucius] walked by the dynastic temple..."), Canto XLV ("With usura hath no man a house of good stone...") and the passage from The Pisan Cantos (LXXXI) beginning "What thou lovest well remains / the rest is dross," and so the book is an ideal introduction for newcomers to the great work. But it has, too, particular interest for the already initiated reader and the specialist, in its revelation, through Pound's own selection of "main elements," of the relative importance which he himself placed on various motifs as they figure in the architecture of the whole poem. Book jacket.
How to Read
Title | How to Read PDF eBook |
Author | Ezra Pound |
Publisher | |
Pages | 55 |
Release | 1831 |
Genre | Books and reading |
ISBN |
The Pisan Cantos
Title | The Pisan Cantos PDF eBook |
Author | Ezra Pound |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780811215589 |
At last, a definitive, paperback edition of Ezra Pound's finest work.
Language, Sexuality, and Ideology in Ezra Pound's Cantos
Title | Language, Sexuality, and Ideology in Ezra Pound's Cantos PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-Michel Rabate |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 1986-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780887060366 |
Ezra Pound's Cantos remains among the most influential and difficult of twentieth century poetic writings. But now, for the first time, Rabaté's powerful and original study presents a theory of reading adequate to the challenge of Pound's writing. Using elements from Lacanian psycho-analysis and Heidegger's powerful meditation of poetry and language, this book constructs a theory of reading which both gives full force to the strategies of writing deployed in the Cantos and to the historical and political situations to which those strategies are a response. This study provides a fresh reading of the familiar Pound canon: Homer, Dante, Ovid but also of the less well-known: Ruskin, Browning, Frobenius. Pound's practice of quotation is understood in the context of a new poetic discourse characterized by parapraxis, ellipsis, condensation and autonomous "voices" which refer the division of the speaking subject back to an "omniform" intellect capable of taking on any new personality at will. Crucial to an understanding of Pound's situation is the relationship between Chinese and Greek culture, an analysis of which allows Rabaté to elaborate the tragic dimension in Pound's life and works. This book also parallels and contrasts Pound with his major contemporaries such as Eliot and Joyce and with his immediate heirs, like William Carlos Williams, H.D., Zukofsky, and Olson.
Posthumous Cantos
Title | Posthumous Cantos PDF eBook |
Author | Ezra Pound |
Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2015-10-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1784101214 |
Drawing on Ezra Pound's notebooks, typescripts and contri-butions to periodicals, Posthumous Cantos is a selection of drafts and sketches that remained unpublished or uncollected in the poet's lifetime. The material spans the entire half-century of Pound's Cantos, 1915 to 1970, and includes newly-recovered passages he wrote in Italian in 1944-45, presented here in their original form alongside English translations. Accompanied by detailed introductory and explanatory notes and a full chronology, Posthumous Cantos offers new insight into the making of one of the twentieth century's most important and forbidding literary works, revealing it as an endless process of writing and rewriting, in which the poetry and the life are finally inextricable. This is a crucial part of the Pound canon, here made available for the first time in an English edition.
The Poetry of Ezra Pound
Title | The Poetry of Ezra Pound PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 1985-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780803277564 |
This pioneering study did much to rehabilitate Ezra Pound's reputation after a long period of critical hostility and neglect. Published in 1951, it was the first comprehensive examination of the Cantos and other major works that would strongly influence the course of contemporary poetry.