The cantos of Ezra Pound.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.

Contributor:

Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

New Directions book

A New Directions book

Standardized Title:

Cantos

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

149 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 56, 46 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 167 pages, 1 unnumbered page 118 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait, music ; 22 cm.

Manufacture:

[Binghamton, N.Y.] : Manufactured in the United States by The Vail-Ballou Press.

Other Title:

Draft of XXX Cantos

Eleven New Cantos

Fifth Decad of Cantos

Cantos LII-LXXI

Place of Publication:

[New York] : New Directions [published by James Laughlin, 333 Sixth Avenue], [1948]

Contents:

A draft of XXX cantos.

Eleven new cantos, XXXI-XLI.

The fifth decad of cantos.

Cantos LII-LXXI.

The Pisan cantos.

Notes:

The portrait is a reproduction of photograph of Ezra Pound by Arnold Genthe.

With half-title.

"Sixth Printing"--T.p. verso.

The fifth and later impressions contain "Author's Errata" facing p. 3.--Cf. Gallup.

Contains Cantos I-LXXI and LXXIV-LXXXIV; excludes Cantos LXXII and LXXIII which were considered controversial. These were included for the first time in the New Directions' 1986 printing of the Cantos.

Black cloth boards lettered in silver on spine.

Price from dustjacket.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained with "Fourth Printing" on front lapel.

Cited in:

Gallup, D. Pound, A61

Contains:

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972. Cantos. Canto 1-30

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972. Cantos. Canto 31-41

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972. Fifth decad of cantos.

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972. Cantos. Canto 52-71.

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972. Pisan cantos.

OCLC:

288340