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The later cantos of Ezra Pound / by James J. Wilhelm.
LIBRA PS3531.O82 C298 1977
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilhelm, James J.
- 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
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