The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound

by Edited by Ira B. Nadel

• ISBN13: 9780521431170
• ISBN10: 0521431174
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This Companion contains fifteen chapters by leading international scholars, who together reflect diverse but complementary approaches to the study of Ezra Pound's poetry and prose. They consider the poetics, foreign influences, economics, politics and publication history of Pound's entire corpus, and reveal his importance in developing some of the key movements in twentieth-century poetry. The book also situates Pound's work in the context of Modernism, illustrating his influence on contemporaries like T. S. Eliot and James Joyce. Taken together, the chapters offer a sustained examination of one of the most versatile, influential and certainly controversial poets of the modern period.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix	(3)
Acknowledgments	xii	(2)
Abbreviations	xiv	(3)
Chronology	xvii
1 Introduction Understanding Pound	1	(21)
IRA B. NADEL
2 Pound and the making of modernism	22	(21)
GEORGE BORNSTEIN
3 Early poetry 1908-1920	43	(16)
HUGH WITEMEYER
4 Early Cantos I-XLI	59	(33)
DANIEL ALBRIGHT
5 Middle Cantos XLII-LXXI	92	(17)
IAN F. A. BELL
6 Late Cantos LXXII-CXVII	109	(30)
RONALD BUSH
7 Beyond The Cantos: Pound and American poetry	139	(22)
PETER NICHOLLS
8 The texts of The Cantos	161	(27)
RICHARD TAYLOR
9 Pound as critic	188	(16)
MASSIMO BACIGALUPO
10 Pound as translator	204	(20)
MING XIE
11 Pound and the visual arts	224	(12)
REED WAY DASENBROCK
12 Pound and music	236	(13)
MICHAEL INGHAM
13 Pound's politics and economics	249	(15)
TIM REDMAN
14 Pound, women and gender	264	(20)
HELEN M. DENNIS
15 Pound and antisemitism	284	(17)
WENDY FLORY
Further reading	301	(5)
Index	306