The Pisan Cantos

The Pisan Cantos PDF Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811215589
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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

The Pisan Cantos

The Pisan Cantos PDF Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811215589
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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

Selected Cantos of Ezra Pound

Selected Cantos of Ezra Pound PDF Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811201605
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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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.

The Cantos of Ezra Pound

The Cantos of Ezra Pound PDF Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213264
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 836

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The Cantos of Ezra Pound is the most important epic poem of the twentieth century.

A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry

A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry PDF Author: Neil Roberts
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470998660
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 648

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In the twentieth century more people spoke English and more people wrote poetry than in the whole of previous history, and this Companion strives to make sense of this crowded poetical era. The original contributions by leading international scholars and practising poets were written as the contributors adjusted to the idea that the possibilities of twentieth-century poetry were exhausted and finite. However, the volume also looks forward to the poetry and readings that the new century will bring. The Companion embraces the extraordinary development of poetry over the century in twenty English-speaking countries; a century which began with a bipolar transatlantic connection in modernism and ended with the decentred heterogeneity of post-colonialism. Representation of the 'canonical' and the 'marginal' is therefore balanced, including the full integration of women poets and feminist approaches and the in-depth treatment of post-colonial poets from various national traditions. Discussion of context, intertextualities and formal approaches illustrates the increasing self-consciousness and self-reflexivity of the period, whilst a 'Readings' section offers new readings of key selected texts. The volume as a whole offers critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the last century.

How to Read

How to Read PDF Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A Draft of XXX Cantos

A Draft of XXX Cantos PDF Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811211284
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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The Cantos have been called Ezra Pound's intellectual diary, composed over the course of sixty years. Long out of print as a separate volume--it was originally published in 1933--this epic of nine groupings of poems is now being issued as a New Directions Paperbook.

Ezra Pound and Music

Ezra Pound and Music PDF Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811217842
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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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 and the Visual Arts

Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts PDF Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811207720
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Gathers all the poet's art criticism from various sources, as well as his articles explaining the new approach of vortography, the English avantgarde movement.

The Poetry of Ezra Pound

The Poetry of Ezra Pound PDF Author:
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803277564
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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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.

Posthumous Cantos

Posthumous Cantos PDF Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
ISBN: 1784101214
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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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.