Pound/Cummings

Pound/Cummings
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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Total Pages : 454
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ISBN-10 : 0472102982
ISBN-13 : 9780472102983
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Pound/Cummings by : Barry Ahearn

Similarly, these letters should provoke a reevaluation of Cummings. Critics have treated Cummings's political views as either strictly private matters or merely incidental to his art. The letters, however, show that Cummings's radically conservative political opinions are wholly consistent with his poetics, and raise the question of the relation between Cummings's political principles and his enthusiasm for particular forms (and particular stars) of mass entertainment. In addition to their political revelations, the letters are steeped in the literary climate - and literary gossip - of the times. Pound comments often and candidly on Cummings's poetry and prose; both Pound and Cummings send light verse to each other. And the poets exchange anecdotes about such figures as Henry James, Wyndham Lewis, T. S. Eliot, Edmund Grosse, Max Eastman, and Aldous Huxley, among other writers.

Confucius to Cummings

Confucius to Cummings
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 388
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ISBN-10 : 0811201554
ISBN-13 : 9780811201551
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Confucius to Cummings by : Ezra Pound

Nearly a hundred poets are represented, a number of them in Pound's translations, with emphasis on the Greek, Latin, Chinese, Troubadour, Renaissance, and Elizabethan poets.

Ezra Pound and Music

Ezra Pound and Music
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 552
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ISBN-10 : 0811217841
ISBN-13 : 9780811217842
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Ezra Pound and Music by : Ezra Pound

Included here are all of Pound's concert reviews and statements; the biweekly columns written under the pen name William Atheling for The New Age in London; articles from other periodicals; the complete text of the 1924 landmark volume Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony; extracts from books and letters, and the poet's additional writings on the subject of music. The pieces are organized chronologically, with illuminating commentary, thorough footnotes, and an index. Three appendixes complete this comprehensive volume; an analysis of Pound's theories of "absolute rhythm" and "Great Bass;" a glossary of important musical personalities mentioned in the text and the composer George Antheil's 1924 appreciation, "Why a Poet Quit the Muses."

Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound
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Publisher : Anchor
Total Pages : 401
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ISBN-10 : 9780307833341
ISBN-13 : 0307833348
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Ezra Pound by : John Tytell

Unlike other biographical portraits of Ezra Pound, John Tytell’s brilliant and ambitious work offers an interpretive study that boldly confronts the emotional truths and psychological drama that formed this complex and controversial American poet. Neither an apology nor a condemnation, it presents instead a meticulous exploration into the mind and vision of a man who galvanized a generation and challenged an entire literary—and world—establishment. Although he enjoyed little fame in his lifetime, Pound’s notoriety and influence were enormous, as he arrogantly slashed away at convention and almost single-handedly brought about the twentieth-century revolution in poetry known as modernism. Ultimately, outrage and scandal turned his art to madness, and Pound’s last years saw him fall tragically silent.

ABC of Reading

ABC of Reading
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 0811201511
ISBN-13 : 9780811201513
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis ABC of Reading by : Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound's classic book about the meaning of literature.

E. E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9781101910481
ISBN-13 : 1101910488
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis E. E. Cummings by : Susan Cheever

One of the Best Books of the Year: The Economist, San Francisco Chronicle Cummings, in his radical experimentation with form, punctuation, spelling, and syntax, created a new kind of poetic expression. Because of his powerful work, he became a generation’s beloved heretic—at the time of his death he was one of the most widely read poets in the United States. Now, in this rich, illuminating biography, Susan Cheever traces the development of the poet and his work. She takes us from Cummings’s seemingly idyllic childhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts, through his years at Harvard (rooming with Dos Passos, befriending Malcolm Cowley and Lincoln Kirstein). There, he devoured the poetry of Ezra Pound, whose radical verses lured the young writer away from the politeness of the traditional nature poem towards a more adventurous, sexually conscious form. We follow Cummings to Paris in 1917, and, finally, to Greenwich Village to be among other modernist poets of the day—Marianne Moore and Hart Crane, among them. E. E. Cummings is a revelation of the man and the poet, and a brilliant reassessment of the freighted path of his legacy.

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.

E.E. Cummings

E.E. Cummings
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Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages : 1288
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ISBN-10 : 1570717753
ISBN-13 : 9781570717758
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis E.E. Cummings by : Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno

The Long-Awaited, Intimate Portrait of an Extraordinary Life

The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941

The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 388
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ISBN-10 : 0811201619
ISBN-13 : 9780811201612
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941 by : Ezra Pound

Originally published in 1950 under title: The letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941.

Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends

Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 269
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ISBN-10 : 9780191608131
ISBN-13 : 0191608130
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends by : Zhaoming Qian

No literary figure of the past century - in America or perhaps in any other Western country - is comparable to Ezra Pound in the scope and depth of his exchange with China. To this day, scholars and students still find it puzzling that this influential poet spent a lifetime incorporating Chinese language, literature, history, and philosophy into Anglo-American modernism. How well did Pound know Chinese? Was he guided exclusively by eighteenth to nineteenth-century orientalists in his various Chinese projects? Did he seek guidance from Chinese peers? Those who have written about Pound and China have failed to address this fundamental question. No one could do so just a few years ago when the letters Pound wrote to his Chinese friends were sealed or had not been found. This book brings together 162 revealing letters between Pound and nine Chinese intellectuals, eighty-five of them newly opened up and none previously printed. Accompanied by editorial introductions and notes, these selected letters make available for the first time the forgotten stories of Pound and his Chinese friends. They illuminate a dimension in Pound's career that has been neglected: his dynamic interaction with people from China over a span of forty-five years from 1914 until 1959. This selection will also be a documentary record of a leading modernist's unparalleled efforts to pursue what he saw as the best of China, including both his stumbles and his triumphs.