Ezra Pound's Cantos : a casebook
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Ezra Pound's Cantos : a casebook
（Casebooks in criticism）
Oxford University Press, 2006
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Includes bibliographical references
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ISBN 9780195175288
Description
Ezra Pound set out to invent and apply a sheath of new techniques and concerns for poetry, a number of which strike the beginning reader of his works as alien. The essays in this casebook introduce a number of essential Poundian concepts from explaining in some detail Pounds ideas concerning ways of organizing a long poem, to explicating the worldviews Pound developed and used as matter for his verse epic. The volume provides a selection of key criticism, including an article newly translated into English.
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: pbk ISBN 9780195175295
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This casebook provides a selection of key criticism, including an article newly translated into English, on the Cantos of Ezra Pound. The introduction positions the poem within Pound's corpus, contextualizes the contributions included and outlines their arguments, and concludes with suggestions for how the student may best approach this troubled and fascinating artifact. The selected articles maintain a high level of immediate contact with the
Cantos, with the intention of preparing students for reading individual cantos on their own. Contributors discuss the nature of many of the successive major blocks of work, allowing the Pound newcomer to experience the poem as an irregular progression, varying greatly in its qualities. The first selection discusses "Canto
I"; subsequent selections discuss, successively, major elements from "Canto II", the Draft of XXX, the China Cantos, the Pisan Cantos, and Drafts and Fragments. As a whole, the collection elucidates the personal and historical shifts that profoundly impacted Pound and consequentially produced the changing fusions of technique and matter in the Cantos. It also shows some of the huge variation in critics conceptions of the poem, or poetry itself, and
of what it meant to be a poet and citizen of the West during the half-century in which the Cantos were written.
Table of Contents
Introduction
PETER MAKIN:
Ezra Pound
HUGH KENNER:
Persephone's Ezra
GUY DAVENPORT:
The Ideogrammic Method in The Cantos
GIROLAMO MANCUSO:
Why the Commedia is Not the Model for The Cantos and What Is
REED WAY DASENBROCK:
History and Money, Fact and Hysteria
PETER MAKIN:
"Safe with My Lynxes": Pound's Figure in the Carpet?
MASSIMO BACIGALUPO:
Extracts from Ezra Pound and the Erotic Medium
KEVIN ODERMAN:
A Metaphysics of the State
PETER NICHOLLS:
Inventing Confucius
HUGH KENNER:
The Music of a Lost Dynasty: Pound in the Classroom
D. S. CARNE-ROSS:
Res and Verba in Rock-Drill and After
DONALD DAVIE:
"Unstill, Ever Turning": The Composition of Ezra's Pound's Drafts & Fragments
RONALD BUSH:
An Interview with Ezra Pound
D. G. BRIDSON:
Ezra Pound: An Interview
DONALD HALL:
Selected Further Readings
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