The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound

by Ira B. Nadel (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781139815239
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	02/11/1999
Series:	Cambridge Companions to Literature
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	694 KB

Table of Contents

Contributors; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chronology; 1. Introduction: understanding Pound Ira B. Nadel; 2. Pound and the making of modernism George Bornstein; 3. Early poetry 1908–1920 Hugh Witemeyer; 4. Early Cantos I-XLI Daniel Albright; 5. Middle Cantos XLII-LXXI Ian F. A. Bell; 6. Late Cantos LXXII-CXVII Ronald Bush; 7. Beyond The Cantos: Pound and American poetry Peter Nicholls; 8. The texts of The Cantos Richard Taylor; 9. Pound as critic Massimo Bacigalupo; 10. Pound as translator Ming Xie; 11. Pound and the visual arts Reed Way Dasenbrock; 12. Pound and music Michael Ingham; 13. Pound's politics and economics Tim Redman; 14. Pound, women and gender Helen M. Dennis; 15. Pound and antisemitism Wendy Flory; Further reading; Index.

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