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The Cantos of Ezra Pound

The Cantos of Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

Provides the complete text of Pound's epic poem including a translation of Pound's Italian canto LXXII, Canto LXXIII, and a 1966 fragment concluding the work
Pound/Joyce; the Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce: With ...

Pound/Joyce; the Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce: With ...

Ezra Pound

The letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce with Pound's critical essays and articles about Joyce. This is the record of one of the most interesting personal relationships of modern literature.
Literary Essays of Ezra Pound

Literary Essays of Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

The contemporary significance and permanent value of Pound's criticism are revealed in these collected essays and reviews
The letters of Ezra Pound to Alice Corbin Henderson

The letters of Ezra Pound to Alice Corbin Henderson

Ezra Pound

These letters, which have never been published, span the years 1912 to 1949 and record not only an important period in American and European literary history but also the development of Pound's aesthetic and poetic voice.
ABC of Reading

ABC of Reading

Ezra Pound

In celebration of what would have been Ezra Pound's 125th birthday comes a new edition of the author's classic book about the meaning of literature, now with a new introduction. Reissue.
The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941

The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941

Ezra Pound

Originally published in 1950 under title: The letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941.
A Draft of XXX Cantos

A Draft of XXX Cantos

Ezra Pound

The Cantos have been called Ezra Pound's intellectual diary, composed over the course of sixty years.
Ezra Pound: Poet: The Tragic Years, 1939-1972

Ezra Pound: Poet: The Tragic Years, 1939-1972

Anthony David Moody

"This third and final volume of A. David Moody's critically acclaimed three-part biography of Ezra Pound opens at the outbreak of the Second World War.
World War i and the Cultures of Modernity

World War i and the Cultures of Modernity

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The Case of Ezra Pound Greg Barnhisel In one of his best-known poems, the American poet Ezra Pound condemns the First World War as a conflict fought on behalf of "an old bitch gone in the teeth {. . . } a botched civilization {. . .} two gross of ...
Translations

Translations

Ezra Pound

English translations by Ezra Pound of literature in various languages.
The Spirit of Romance

The Spirit of Romance

Ezra Pound

Dating from 1910 and subtitled ""An attempt to Define Somewhat the Charm of the Pre-Renaissance Literature of Latin Europe"," The Spirit of Romance is one of the key books in Ezra Pound's revaluation of literary tradition.
Ezra Pound's Radio Operas: The Bbc Experiments, 1931-1933

Ezra Pound's Radio Operas: The Bbc Experiments, 1931-1933

Margaret Fisher

In this study of Pound's radio operas of the 1930s, Margaret Fisher draws on the unpublished correspondence between Pound and his maverick BBC producer, Edward Archibald Fraser Harding, to reveal a little-known aspect of Pound's career.
ABC of Reading

ABC of Reading

Ezra Pound

The entire book re-emphasizes the fact that one of Pound's major contributions to modern culture was his great ability to discover neglected and unknown genius, distinguishes originals from imitations, and opening new avenues in literature ...
Ezra Pound in the Present: Essays on Pound's Contemporaneity

Ezra Pound in the Present: Essays on Pound's Contemporaneity

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51 As Reto Hofmann writes: by stressing that, as a movement, the Renaissance was characterized by a capacity to absorb ancient and diverse cultural traditions and mold them into a harmonious totality, they also came close to likening its ...
James Laughlin, New Directions, and the Remaking of Ezra Pound

James Laughlin, New Directions, and the Remaking of Ezra Pound

Greg Barnhisel

With Pound's encouragement, and despite the poet's oft-expressed opposition to the mixture of commerce and art, Laughlin used such marketing tools as advertising, the cultivation of friendly critics, and the development of the trade ...
Ezra Pound as Literary Critic

Ezra Pound as Literary Critic

Emeritus Professor K K Ruthven

Bringing some of the insights of modern critical theory to bear on a great deal of information about Pound's activities as a literary critic (some of it made available only recently), K.K. Ruthven provides a provocative re-reading of a ...
Guide to Kulchur

Guide to Kulchur

Ezra Pound

First American edition published in 1938 under the title: Culture.
New Selected Poems and Translations

New Selected Poems and Translations

Ezra Pound

An essential collection of the author's poetry is newly expanded and annotated, with essays by Richard Sieburth, T. S. Eliot and John Berryman. Original.
Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence

Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence

Vincent Sherry

This volume explores the idea of decadence through readings of major modernist writers such as Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot.
Ovid's Metamorphoses: The Arthur Golding Translation, 1567

Ovid's Metamorphoses: The Arthur Golding Translation, 1567

Ovid

"The most beautiful book in the English language." -- Ezra Pound
Improvised Europeans: American Literary Expatriates and the ...

Improvised Europeans: American Literary Expatriates and the ...

Alex Zwerdling

Looks at four American expatriate writers, Henry Adams, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and Henry James

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