Selected poems / Ezra Pound.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

vii, 184 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions Pub. Corp., 1957.

Summary:

Ezra Pound has been called "the inventor of modern poetry in English." The verse and criticism which he produced during the early years of this century very largely determined the directions of creative writing in our time; and virtually every major poet in England and America today has acknowledged his help or influence. Pound's lyric genius, his superb technique, and his fresh insight into literary problems make him one of the small company of men who through the centuries have kept poetry alive, one of the great innovators. This book offers a compact yet representative selection of Ezra Pound's poems and translations. The span covered is Pound's entire writing career, from his early lyrics and the translations of Provencal songs to his English version of Sophokles' Trachiniae. Included are parts of his best known works-the Chinese translations, the sequence called Hugh Selwyn Muberley, the Homage to Sextus Propertius. The Cantos, Pound's major epic, are presented in generous selections, chosen to emphasize the main themes of the whole poem.

Contents:

A Ballad of the Mulberry Road 60

Alba 36

Alba from "Langue d'Oc" 42

Amities 33

Ancient Music 38

An Object 18

A Pact 27

Apparuit 22

April 29

Arides 33

A Song of the Degrees 31

A Virginal 23

Ballad of the Goodly Fere 9

"Blandula, Tenella, Vagula" 13

Brennbaum 66

Cantos 96

Cino 1

Coitus 36

Dance Figure 28

Difference of Opinion with Lygdamus 82

Envoi (1919) 70

Epitaphs 39

Erat Hora 14

Exile's Letter 56

From Homage to Sextus Propertius 78

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley 61

In a Station of the Metro 35

Ite 31

Lament of the Frontier Guard 55

Les Millwin 30

Mauberley (1920) 71

Medallion 77

Meditatio 34

Mr. Nixon 67

Na Audiart 3

Near Perigord 42

Of Jacopo del Sellaio 23

Pagani's, November 8 41

Planh for the Young English King 12

Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin 54

Portrait d'une Femme 16

Salutation 26

Salvationists 32

Sestina: Altaforte 7

"Siena mi fe'; disfecemi Maremma" 66

Song of the Bowmen of Shu 49

Taking Leave of a Friend 59

Tame Cat 37

Tenzone 24

"The Age Demanded" 73

The Beautiful Toilet 50

The Coming of War: Actaeon 35

The Encounter 36

The Garden 26

The Garret 25

The House of Splendour 14

The Jewel Stairs' Grievance 55

The Lake Isle 38

The Rest 29

The Return 24

The River-merchant's Wife: A Letter 52

The River Song 51

The Seafarer 18

The Spring 27

The Tea Shop 37

The Tomb of Akr Caar 15

The Tree 6

The White Stag 7

Villanelle: The Psychological Hour 39

Villonaud for this Yule 5

Women of Trachis 183

Yeux Glauques 65.

Notes:

"A New directions paperbook"

ISBN:

0811201627 :

OCLC:

63602064