The later cantos of Ezra Pound / by James J. Wilhelm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilhelm, James J.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972. Cantos.

Pound, Ezra.

Cantos (Pound, Ezra).

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Walker, 1977.

Contents:

The man in the later Cantos

The central ideogram of the Cantos

The three changing phases of woman and gold

The troubadours as guides to poetry and paradise

Dante as a cohering voice in the later Cantos

The battle against the unholy marriage of banking and politics

Canto 90 as incantation: the poet as priest of nature

Under the larches with Apollonius: the message of a lost messiah

The deacon and his lombards: from barbarism to civilization

Byzantium: the sacred symbol of Yeats, the well-run metropolis of Pound

What Confucius told K'ang Hsi to tell the modern world

Napoleon: the lesson of meaningless revolution

In praise of Anselm and a vital Christian humanism

Those haunting shards, the final fragments.

Notes:

Bibliography: page 211.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0802705537 :

9780802705532

OCLC:

3115616