The Cantos of Ezra Pound is the most important epic poem of the twentieth century.
The Companion is a major contribution to the literary evaluation of Pound's great, but often bewildering and abstruse work, The Cantos.
At last, a definitive, paperback edition of Ezra Pound's finest work.
In this book, George Kearns addresses the reader approaching The Cantos for the first time.
Excerpt's from Pound's long poem designate his own choice of the basic elements in his life's work
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Furthermore, Mr. Laughlin also reveals that in Pound's mind the Eleulight' is the dromena, which Pound suggested to me was an orgasm” (Pound as Wuz 85). Thus, Pound's understanding of the Eleusinian Mysteries shapes his understanding of ...
In this essential guide to one of the most difficult yet rewarding poems of the twentieth century, William Cookson (who began corresponding with Pound as a schoolboy in 1957) draws...
Ezra Pound spent most of his life in Italy and wrote about it incessantly in his poetry.
Collects several of Pound's early poems and prose, including "The Seafarer," "Revolt," "Autumn," "What I Feel About Walt Whitman," and "The Serious Artist."
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