Ezra Pound Among the Poets

Ezra Pound Among the Poets
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9780226066424
ISBN-13 : 0226066428
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Ezra Pound Among the Poets by : George Bornstein

"Be influenced by as many great writers as you can," said Ezra Pound. Pound was an "assimilative poet" par excellence, as George Bornstein calls him, a writer who more often "adhered to a . . . classical conception of influence as benign and strengthening" than to an anxiety model of influence. To study Pound means to study also his precursors—Homer, Ovid, Li Po, Dante, Whitman, Browning—as well as his contemporaries—Yeats, Williams, and Eliot. These poets, discussed here by ten distinguished critics, stimulated Pound's most important poetic encounters with the literature of Greece, Rome, China, Tuscany, England, and the United States. Fully half of these essays draw on previously unpublished manuscripts.

The Bughouse

The Bughouse
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 335
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ISBN-10 : 9781448191888
ISBN-13 : 1448191882
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis The Bughouse by : Daniel Swift

‘An extraordinary book of real passionate research’ Edmund de Waal In 1945, Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for his broadcasts in Fascist Italy during the Second World War. But before the trial could take place Pound was pronounced insane. Escaping a potential death sentence he was shipped off to St Elizabeths Hospital near Washington, DC, where he was held for over a decade. At the hospital, Pound was at his most contradictory and most controversial: a genius writer – ‘The most important living poet in the English language’ according to T. S. Eliot – but also a traitor and now, seemingly, a madman. But he remained a magnetic figure. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell and John Berryman all went to visit him at what was perhaps the world’s most unorthodox literary salon: convened by a fascist and held in a lunatic asylum. Told through the eyes of his illustrious visitors, The Bughouse captures the essence of Pound – the artistic flair, the profound human flaws – whilst telling the grand story of politics and art in the twentieth century.

Ezra Pound: Poet

Ezra Pound: Poet
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 525
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ISBN-10 : 9780199215577
ISBN-13 : 019921557X
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Ezra Pound: Poet by : Anthony David Moody

Volume I of a major new two-part biography. Contentious, colourful, revolutionary, here is the young Pound - a determined and energetic genius setting out to make his way both as a poet and as a force for civilization in England and America. Covering the years up to 1920, David Moody explores Pound's alliances with Yeats, Eliot, and Wyndham Lewis, the birth of Vorticism, and his poetry up to Hugh Selwyn Mauberley and the first Cantos.

Ezra Pound Among the Poets

Ezra Pound Among the Poets
Author :
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 256
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0226066428
ISBN-13 : 9780226066424
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Ezra Pound Among the Poets by : George Bornstein

"Be influenced by as many great writers as you can," said Ezra Pound. Pound was an "assimilative poet" par excellence, as George Bornstein calls him, a writer who more often "adhered to a . . . classical conception of influence as benign and strengthening" than to an anxiety model of influence. To study Pound means to study also his precursors—Homer, Ovid, Li Po, Dante, Whitman, Browning—as well as his contemporaries—Yeats, Williams, and Eliot. These poets, discussed here by ten distinguished critics, stimulated Pound's most important poetic encounters with the literature of Greece, Rome, China, Tuscany, England, and the United States. Fully half of these essays draw on previously unpublished manuscripts.

The Pisan Cantos

The Pisan Cantos
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 214
Release :
ISBN-10 : 081121558X
ISBN-13 : 9780811215589
Rating : 4/5 (8X Downloads)

Synopsis The Pisan Cantos by : Ezra Pound

At last, a definitive, paperback edition of Ezra Pound's finest work.

Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound
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Publisher : Faber & Faber
Total Pages : 97
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ISBN-10 : 0571226779
ISBN-13 : 9780571226771
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Ezra Pound by : Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound was born in 1885 in Hailey, Idaho. He came to Europe in 1908 and settled in London, where he became a central figure in the literary and artistic world, befriended by Yeats and a supporter of Eliot and Joyce, among others. In 1920 he moved to Paris, and later to Rapallo in Italy. During the Second World War he made a series of propagandist broadcasts over Radio Rome, for which he was later tried in the United States and subsequently committed to a hospital for the insane. After thirteen years, he was released and returned to Italy; dying in Venice in 1972.

The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia

The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 363
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ISBN-10 : 9780313061431
ISBN-13 : 0313061432
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia by : Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos

Ezra Pound forever changed the course of poetry. The author of a vast body of literature, his enormous range of references and use of multiple languages make him one of the most obscure authors and—because of his Fascism, anti-Semitism, and questionable sanity—one of the most controversial. This encyclopedia is a concise yet comprehensive guide to his life and writings. Included are more than 250 alphabetically arranged entries on such topics as Arabic history, Chinese translation, dance, Hilda Doolittle, Egyptian literature, Robert Frost, and Pound's publications. The entries are written by roughly 100 expert contributors and cite works for further reading. Ezra Pound forever changed the course of poetry. His vast body of poetry and critical works make him one of the 20th century's most prolific writers, and his influence has shaped later poets, great and small. His enormous range of references, deliberate obscurity, and use of multiple languages make him one of the most difficult authors and— because of his Fascism, anti-Semitism, and questionable sanity—one of the most controversial figures in American literary history. This encyclopedia is a concise yet comprehensive guide to his life and writings.

Selected Poems of Ezra Pound

Selected Poems of Ezra Pound
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 194
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ISBN-10 : 9780811221900
ISBN-13 : 0811221903
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis Selected Poems of Ezra Pound by : Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound has been called "the inventor of modern poetry in English." The verse and criticism which he produced during the early years of the twentieth century very largely determined the directions of creative writing in our time; virtually every major poet in England and America today has acknowledged his help or influence. Pound's lyric genius, his superb technique, and his fresh insight into literary problems make him one of the small company of men who through the centuries have kept poetry alive—one of the great innovators. This book offers a compact yet representative selection of Ezra Pound's poems and translations. The span covered is Pound's entire writing career, from his early lyrics and the translations of Provençal songs to his English version of Sophocles' Trachiniae. Included are parts of his best known works—the Chinese translations, the sequence called Hugh Selwyn Mauberly, the Homage to Sextus Propertius. The Cantos, Pound's major epic, are presented in generous selections, chosen to emphasize the main themes of the whole poem.

Cross-Cultural Ezra Pound

Cross-Cultural Ezra Pound
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1835538762
ISBN-13 : 9781835538760
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Cross-Cultural Ezra Pound by : Walter Baumann

This volume offers new interpretations of Pound's poetics, as well as new perspectives on his critical reception globally. It covers Pound's work from his beginnings as a young poet in Philadelphia in the first decade of the century through his most productive years as a poet, critic, and translator to the first critical treatments of his work in the 1940s and 50s, and on to translations of The Cantos spanning the last fifty years.

How to Read

How to Read
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:1456479342
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Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis How to Read by : Ezra Pound