Ezra Pound's early verse and lyric tradition : a jargoner's apprenticeship / Robert Stark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stark, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972--Criticism and interpretation.

Pound, Ezra.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Traces the lyricism and musicality in Pound's early verse through to his radical Modernist style.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Poetic Jargon; Chapter 2 'Toils Obscure, An' A' That': Romantic and Celtic Influences in 'Hilda's Book'; Chapter 3 'Opacity is NOT an American Quality'; Chapter 4 'Caliban Casts Out Ariel': Ezra Pound's Victorian Barbarian; Chapter 5 'The Seafarer' and a 'Living Tongue'; Chapter 6 Pound Among the Nightingales: From the Troubadours to a Cantabile Modernism; Chapter 7 Beyond/Formulated Language: The Function of Intensity in Cathay and Lustra; Envoi: 'Not of One Bird But of Many'

Appendix: 'Barbarians and Dark Words of God': Poetic Jargon in Greek DramaReferences; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-90297-4

0-7486-4618-3

OCLC:

828794246