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Early writings : poems and prose / Ezra Pound ; edited with an introduction and notes by Ira B. Nadel.
Van Pelt Library PS3531.O82 A6 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
- Series:
- Penguin classics
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. 2005
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- xxxviii, 408 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2005.
- Summary:
- T. S. Eliot called Ezra Pound il miglior fabbro, "the better craftsman." James Joyce declared he was "a miracle of ebulliency, gusto and help." W.B. Yeats recalled that to "talk over a poem with him" was "like getting you to put a sentence into dialect. All becomes clear and natural." The supercharged Ezra Pound seemed to be everywhere at once in the literary world of the early twentieth century, cajoling, hectoring, provoking, and refashioning literature whether in London, Paris, New York, or Rapallo.
- This unique selection of his early poems and prose includes such poetic masterpieces as "The Seafarer," "Homage to Sextus Propertius," and the first eight of Pound's incomparable cantos, as well as seventeen essays, articles, and critical pieces, including "The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry."
- Contents:
- Poems 1
- To the Raphaelite Latinists 3
- Cino 4
- Na Audiart 7
- Villonaud for This Yule 10
- Histrion 12
- In Durance 13
- Revolt 15
- Sestina: Altaforte 17
- Piere Vidal Old 19
- Ballad of the Goodly Fere 22
- "Blandula, Tenulla, Vagula" 25
- Und Drang 26
- Redondillas, or Something of That Sort 35
- To Whistler, American 43
- Portrait d'une Femme 45
- N.Y. 47
- The Seafarer 48
- The Return 52
- Fratres Minores 53
- The Complete Poetical Works of T.E. Hulme 54
- Autumn 55
- Mana Aboda 55
- Above the Dock 55
- The Embankment 56
- Conversion 56
- Salutation the Third 57
- Song of the Bowmen of Shu 59
- The River Song 61
- The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter 63
- Exile's Letter 65
- Tenzone 68
- The Garden 69
- 1915: February 70
- Commission 72
- A Pact 74
- Further Instructions 75
- A Song of the Degrees 77
- Ite 79
- Liu Ch'e 80
- The Coming of War: Actaeon 81
- In a Station of the Metro 82
- The Encounter 83
- L'Art, 1910 84
- Ancient Music 85
- Provincia Deserta 86
- Villanelle: The Psychological Hour 89
- Near Perigord 91
- L'Homme Moyen Sensuel 98
- Homage to Sextus Propertius 106
- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley 127
- The Cantos (1917-1922) 143
- Three Cantos of a Poem of Some Length 145
- The Fourth Canto 163
- The Fifth Canto 167
- The Sixth Canto 171
- The Seventh Canto 175
- The Eighth Canto 179
- Prose 185
- What I Feel About Walt Whitman 187
- The Wisdom of Poetry 190
- Psychology and Troubadours 195
- Imagisme 209
- How I Began 211
- Troubadours-Their Sorts and Conditions 216
- The Serious Artist 233
- A Retrospect 252
- The Tradition 266
- Mr. Hueffer and the Prose Tradition in Verse 270
- Vorticism 278
- Affirmations 292
- Chinese Poetry 297
- Chinese Poetry-II 301
- The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry 304
- James Joyce, At Last the Nover Appears 330
- Paris Letter, May 1922, Ulysses 334.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [ xxix]-xxx) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0142180130
- OCLC:
- 60659982
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