Pound's Cantos Declassified

Pound's Cantos Declassified

Author: Philip Furia

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 1990-12-13

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 0271071826

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By using his Cantos for storing, "making new," and transmitting historical documents, Pound was returning the epic to its ancient function as a tribal archive for the "luminous details" of history that define a culture's past and shape its future. So argues this book, which does not overlook the poem's brilliant lyrical passages but for the first time focuses on those vast stretches of Pound's epic composed not of literary touchstones but of that most unpoetic of literary forms, historical documents. Pound's task as epic poet was complicated by the fact that the documents he wished to renew and transmit to his culture were largely unknown, often because in his mind they had been suppressed by a widespread conspiracy throughout the ages which he termed the "historical black-out." His Cantos therefore, he believed, must be a counter-conspiracy to rescue vital documents from that black-out, renew them, and then recirculate them to combat the economic and political forces behind the black-out. Drawing on recent research by numerous scholars, Furia traces the arcane documents Pound unearthed from libraries around the world and shows how he transmuted this documentary mass into poetry, first by framing passages of prose to highlight their poetic texture and then by weaving these shards and fragments into a collage of intricate structure. Among the documents Furia "declassifies" are Chinese edicts, Italian bank charters, British factory commission reports, Byzantine guild regulations, American Presidential papers, municipal records, judicial writs, parliamentary statutes, legislative codes, contracts, deeds, mandates, treaties, diary entries, and correspondence by such diverse figures as Lorenzo de' Medici, Martin Van Buren, Napoleon, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Mustapha Kemal, and Kubla Khan. Pound's Cantos Declassified traces the poet's struggle to shape the content of the epic poem that absorbed most of his creative life.


The Late Cantos of Ezra Pound

The Late Cantos of Ezra Pound

Author: Michael Kindellan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-10-19

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 147425876X

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Drawing extensively on archival research, The Late Cantos of Ezra Pound critically explores the textual history of Pound's late verse, namely Section: Rock-Drill (1955) and Thrones (1959). Examining unpublished letters, draft manuscripts and other prepublication material, this book addresses the composition, revision and dissemination of these difficult texts in order to shed new light on their significance to Pound's wider project, his methods and techniques, and the structures of authority-literary and political-that govern the meaning of his poetry. Illustrated by reproductions of archival documents, The Late Cantos of Ezra Pound is an innovative new study of one of the most important poets of the 20th century.


Reading the Cantos (Routledge Revivals)

Reading the Cantos (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Noel Stock

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-11-30

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 1136836519

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First published in 1967, this is a study which tackles the central problem of meaning, within Ezra Pound's The Cantos. It deals with the question of important critical issues, as well as of interpretation and understanding. Students of modern poetry will derive great benefit from this vigorous and lucid analysis of Pound's masterpiece. Noel Stock's finding is radical: that The Cantos is not a really a poem at all, but rather notes towards a poem. It is a collection of fragments of varying quality - some of extraordinary power and beauty - but in no sense formed into a work of art.


Poemas Y Canciones

Poemas Y Canciones

Author: Gersam Tuckler Hernández

Publisher: Palibrio

Published: 2012-01-16

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13: 1463314612

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Mi nombre es Gersam Pastor Tuckler Hernndez. Nac en Managua, Nicaragua el 30 de Marzo, de 1937. Obtuve mi diploma de Bachiller de Ciencias y Letras, del Instituto Pedagogico de Varones, conocido como Colegio de los Hermanos Cristianos La Salle, el 18 de Febrero de 1956. Tambin recib mi diploma de Inspector de Sanamiento Rural, en Febrero de 1965, del Gobierno de Nicaragua. Obtuve un Certificado de Asistente de Refineria de Petroleo de Exxon Standard Oil. Despus de muchos empleos que tuve sin xitos, incluyendo la ayuda que aportaba en la Farmacia de mi madre, me dediqu al Teatro, dando shows de baile y cantos, incluyendo tocando piano en restaurantes y escuelas pblicas. Al fin de decid salir del pas. Mis padres estuvieron de acuerdo, y sal para New York City el 4 de Julio de 1965. El primer trabajo decente que encontr fue en Bulova Watch Co. Estuve trabajando por 20 aos desempeado varios otros empleos. Me cas con una muchacha nicaragense, hasta la fecha de hoy. Recib mi Diploma de Asociado en Ciencia en Marzo, 19 de 1978 del Colegio de la Comunidad de la Ciudad de Nueva York. Obtuve mi grado de Sargento con la Polica Auxiliar de la ciudad de Nueva York en 1979, y al mismo tiempo fui miembro de la Banda Musical de Polica Auxiliar, tocando el piano. Me retir en 1999. Durante mi estada en New York, principi a escribir poemas a mi familia, y amigas. He escrito casi 200 composiciones musicales para piano, as como canciones romnticas, y melodas bailables. Toqu la marimba nicaragense y piano en shows especiales, cuando me invitaban. A mi padre le agradezco por ingresarme a este noble pasatiempo. Cuando nosotros nicaragenses nos invitaban a cualquier evento familiar, siempre, a como cualquier grupo tnico lo hace, se formaba un grupo para contar aventuras cuando vivamos en nuestra tierra. Se hablaba ms de poltica, comparando las diferencias de comunismo, dictadura y repblica. Sin darnos cuenta el tiempo haba pasado tan rpido que veamos los rayos matutinos entran por las ventanas. Nos prometamos llamarnos por telfono, pero yo nunca recib alguna. Y siempre alguien sugera que se poda escribir un libro con tantas cosas que se oa cada vez que nos reunamos cuando ramos invitados a alguna fiesta. Yo haba escrito muchos poemas y canciones. Lo mismo que escribir la msica de mis canciones que eran casi como 200 de ellas. Principi a buscar publicadores que encontraba atrs de libros en las bibliotecas pblicas. Siempre haba una razn para rechazar mis anhelos. Algunos gerentes de libreras, no saban, y me aconsejaban que lo hiciera en el extranjero, como Colombia, Mjico, Espaa, Repblica Dominicana. Escriba cartas, llamaba por telfono a ciertos lugares que encontraba en las pginas amarillas. Nada encontraba. En Julio de 2010, mi esposa y yo, cambiamos de domicilio, y nos venimos a Virginia. Bueno, leyendo los peridicos dominicales, encontr lo que siempre buscaba. Palibrio, una publicadora en espaol, ofrecan lo que yo anhelaba. Bueno, y en eso estamos ahora.


The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound

The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound

Author: Ira B. Nadel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-02-11

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1139825089

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This Companion contains fifteen chapters by leading international scholars, who together reflect diverse but complementary approaches to the study of Ezra Pound's poetry and prose. They consider the poetics, foreign influences, economics, politics and publication history of Pound's entire corpus, and reveal his importance in developing some of the key movements in twentieth-century poetry. The book also situates Pound's work in the context of Modernism, illustrating his influence on contemporaries like T. S. Eliot and James Joyce. Taken together, the chapters offer a sustained examination of one of the most versatile, influential and certainly controversial poets of the modern period.


Pound, Frost, Moore, and Poetic Precision

Pound, Frost, Moore, and Poetic Precision

Author: Barry Ahearn

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-02-04

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 3030365441

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Pound, Frost, Moore and Poetic Precision: Science in American Modernist Poetry examines three major poets in light of the demand that poetry aspire to scientific precision. The critical insistence that poetry be precise affected every one of these poets, and looking at how they responded to this insistence offers a new perspective on their achievements and, by extension, twentieth-century poetry in general. Ezra Pound sought to associate poetry with the precision of modern science, technology and mathematics as a way to eliminate or reduce error. Robert Frost, however, welcomed imprecision as a fundamental aspect of existence that the poet could use. Marianne Moore appreciated the value of both precision and imprecision, especially with respect to her religious perspective on human and natural phenomena. By analyzing these particular poets’ reaction to the value placed on precision, Barry Ahearn explores how that emphasis influenced the broader culture, literary culture and twentieth-century Modernist American poetry.


A Companion to The Cantos of Ezra Pound

A Companion to The Cantos of Ezra Pound

Author: Carroll F. Terrell

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1993-04-16

Total Pages: 820

ISBN-13: 9780520082878

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The Companion is a major contribution to the literary evaluation of Pound's great, but often bewildering and abstruse work, The Cantos. Available in a one-volume paperback edition for the first time, the Companion brings together in conveniently numbered glosses for each canto the most pertinent details from the vast body of work on the Cantos during the last thirty years. The Companion contains 10,421 separate glosses that include translations from eight languages, identification of all proper names and works, Pound's literary and historical allusions, and other exotica, with exegeses based upon Pound's sources. Also included is a supplementary bibliography of works on Pound, newly updated, and an alphabetized index to The Cantos.


Language, Sexuality, and Ideology in Ezra Pound's Cantos

Language, Sexuality, and Ideology in Ezra Pound's Cantos

Author: Jean-Michel Rabaté

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1986-02-01

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1438416679

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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.