By using his Cantos for storing, ";making new, "; and transmitting historical documents, Pound was returning the epic to its ancient function as a tribal archive for the ";luminous details"; of history that define a culture's past and shape its future. So argues this book, which…
The instalments of Ezra Pound's life-project, The Cantos, composed during his incarceration in Washington after the Second World War were to have served as a "Paradiso" for his epic. Beautiful and tormented, enigmatic and irascible by turns, they express the poet's struggle to r…
The instalments of Ezra Pound's life-project, The Cantos, composed during his incarceration in Washington after the Second World War were to have served as a "Paradiso" for his epic. Beautiful and tormented, enigmatic and irascible by turns, they express the poet's struggle to r…
"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 Italia…
"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 Italia…
"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 Italia…
"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 Italia…
The Ur cantos (by Helen Carr) -- Canto 1 (by Catherine Paul) -- Canto 2 (by Peter Liebregts) -- Canto 4 (by Henry Mead) -- Canto 5 (by Caterina Ricciardi) -- Canto 7 (by Walter Baumann) -- Canto 8 (by Anderson Araujo) -- Canto 11 (by Ronald Bush) -- Canto 12 (by Aaron Jaffe) -- …
Readings in the Cantos