The Cantos of Ezra Pound
Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 836
ISBN-13: 9780811213264
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cantos of Ezra Pound is the most important epic poem of the twentieth century.
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Pound's Cantos
Author: Peter Makin
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780801843716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Pisan Cantos
Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780811215589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt last, a definitive, paperback edition of Ezra Pound's finest work.
Selected Cantos of Ezra Pound
Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780811201605
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Ezra Pound, Italy, and the Cantos
Author: Massimo Bacigalupo
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2020-03-18
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 1949979016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEzra Pound spent most of his life in Italy and wrote about it incessantly in his poetry. Only by following his footsteps, acquaintances and composition processes can we make sense of and enjoy his forbidding Cantos. This study provides for the first time an account of Pound’s Italian wanderings and of what they became in his work. After this study we will be able to read Pound as a guide to the places, people and books he loved, and we will share his the poet traveler’s joys and discoveries.
Posthumous Cantos
Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
Published: 2015-10-01
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1784101214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing 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.
Language, Sexuality, and Ideology in Ezra Pound's Cantos
Author: Jean-Michel Rabate
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1986-01-01
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780887060366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEzra 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.
The Poetry of Ezra Pound
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Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1985-01-01
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780803277564
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
The Dream Songs
Author: John Berryman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2014-10-21
Total Pages: 469
ISBN-13: 1466879637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe complete Dream Songs--hypnotic, seductive, masterful--as thrilling to read now as they ever were John Berryman's The Dream Songs are perhaps the funniest, saddest, most intricately wrought cycle of oems by an American in the twentieth century. They are also, more simply, the vibrantly sketched adventures of a uniquely American antihero named Henry. Henry falls in and out of love, and is in and out of the hospital; he sings of joy and desire, and of beings at odds with the world. He is lustful; he is depressed. And while Henry is breaking down and cracking up and patching himself together again, Berryman is doing the same thing to the English language, crafting electric verses that defy grammar but resound with an intuitive truth: "if he had a hundred years," Henry despairs in "Dream Song 29," "& more, & weeping, sleepless, in all them time / Henry could not make good." This volume collects both 77 Dream Songs, which won Berryman the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, and their continuation, His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, which was awarded the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize in 1969. The Dream Songs are witty and wild, an account of madness shot through with searing insight, winking word play, and moments of pure, soaring elation. This is a brilliantly sustained and profoundly moving performance that has not yet-and may never be-equaled.
