Ezra Pound's Early Verse and Lyric Tradition
Ezra Pound's Early Verse and Lyric Tradition

Author: Robert Stark

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2012-10-15

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0748646183

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Traces the lyricism and musicality in Pound's early verse through to his radical Modernist style. Robert Stark argues that Pound learned how to write poetry more or less as if it was a foreign tongue - or poetic 'jargon' - with a unique lexicon, grammar, and even morphology, and that his most innovative poetry is the result of his ambivalent orientation towards different European literary traditions.Stark contextualizes Pound's poetic craft by examining his relationship to the Mediaeval and Classical originators of the methods he employs and by considering the practice and criticism of his immediate Victorian and Romantic predecessors. He explores the influence of poets such as Francois Villon, Guido Cavalcanti, Robert Burns, Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne and Walt Whitman on Pound's lyrical style. For Stark, Pound's multi-vocalism arises out of his interest in dialect and the acoustic qualities of speech which leads to a 'modern' barbarous language marked by polysemy and heterogeneity.

Approaches to Teaching Pound's Poetry and Prose
Approaches to Teaching Pound's Poetry and Prose

Author: Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos

Publisher: Modern Language Association

Published: 2021-04-05

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1603294503

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Known for his maxim "Make it new," Ezra Pound played a principal role in shaping the modernist movement as a poet, translator, and literary critic. His works, with their complex structures and layered allusions, remain widely taught. Yet his known fascism, anti-Semitism, and misogyny raise issues about dangerous ideologies that influenced his work and that must be addressed in the classroom. The first section, "Materials," catalogs the print and digital editions of Pound's works, evaluates numerous secondary sources, and provides a history of Pound's critical contexts. The essays in the second section, "Approaches," offer strategies for guiding students toward a clearer understanding of Pound's difficult works and the context in which they were written.

Early Writings (Pound, Ezra)
Early Writings (Pound, Ezra)

Author: Ezra Pound

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2005-06-28

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 1101007346

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Ezra Pound makes his Penguin Classics debut with this unique selection of his early poems and prose, edited with an introductory essay and notes by Pound expert Ira Nadel. The poetry includes such early masterpieces as “The Seafarer,” “Homage to Sextus Propertius,” “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley,” and the first eight of Pound’s incomparable “Cantos.” The prose includes a series of articles and critical pieces, with essays on Imagism, Vorticism, Joyce, and the well-known “Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry.” First time in Penguin Classics Includes generous selections of Pound's poetry, as well as an assortment of prose

Lyric Poem and Aestheticism
Lyric Poem and Aestheticism

Author: Marion Thain

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2016-08-16

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1474415679

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This study explores lyric poetry's response to a crisis of relevance in Victorian Modernity, offering an analysis of literature usually elided by studies of the modern formation of the genre and uncovering previously unrecognized discourses within it. Setting the focal aestheticist poetry (c. 1860 to 1914) within much broader historical, theoretical and aesthetic frames, it speaks to those interested in Victorian and modernist literature and culture, but also to a burgeoning audience of the 'new lyric studies'. The six case studies introduce fresh poetic voices as well as giving innovative analyses of canonical writers (such as D. G. Rossetti, Ezra Pound, A. C. Swinburne).

Ezra Pound's Early Poetry and Poetics
Ezra Pound's Early Poetry and Poetics

Author: Thomas F. Grieve

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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"Ezra Pound's Early Poetry and Poetics uniquely contributes to an understanding of Ezra Pound's seminal role in literary modernism. The book allows readers to judge more fully the reasons for Pound's influence on the direction twentieth-century poetry has taken. Central to this effort is Grieve's unfolding of Poundian "objectivity" in Pound's early poetry and poetics, which is shown to be not just an attitude toward reality but a self-conscious deconstruction of subjectivity as the privileged ground of poetry. Such a view takes issue with and corrects previous studies that have tended to relegate Pound's early poetry to the simplifications and naivetes of realism or failed romanticism."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Poetry of Ezra Pound
The Poetry of Ezra Pound

Author:

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1985-01-01

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780803277564

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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.

Lark in the Morning
Lark in the Morning

Author: Robert Kehew

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2005-09-15

Total Pages: 723

ISBN-13: 0226429334

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Robert Kehew augments his own verse translations with those of Pound & Snodgrass, to provide a collection that captures both the poetic pyrotechnics of the original verse & the astonishing variety of troubadour voices.

The Dance of the Intellect
The Dance of the Intellect

Author: Marjorie Perloff

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780810113800

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Must poetic form be, as Yeats demanded, "full, sphere-like, single", or can it accommodate the "impurities" Yeats and his Modernist generation found so problematic? Sixty years later, these are still open questions, questions to which Marjorie Perloff addresses herself in the essays collected here. The first group of essays deals with Pound's own poetics as that poetics related to two of his great contemporaries, Stevens and Joyce, as well as to the visual arts of his day. The second group deals with the more technical aspects of verse and prose. In the last four essays, Perloff takes up broader issues, including the current pessimism about the state of poetry, and the work of experimental poets and conceptual poets.

The Pisan Cantos
The Pisan Cantos

Author: Ezra Pound

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780811215589

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