The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound

by Edited by Ira B. Nadel

• ISBN13: 9780521649209
• ISBN10: 052164920X
• Format: Paperback
• 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 also situate Pound's work in the context of Modernism, illustrating his influence on contemporaries such as 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

Foreword

Chronology

Introduction: understanding Pound Ira B. Nadel

1. Early poetry Hugh Witemeyer

2. Pound and the visual arts Reed Way Dasenbrock

3. Pound as translator Ming Xie

4. Pound and the making of Modernism George Bornstein

5. Early Cantos, I-XLI Daniel Albright

6. Middle Cantos, XLII-LXXIII Ian F. Bell

7. The Pisan and Late Cantos, LXXIV-CXVII Ron Bush

8. The texts of the Cantos Richard Taylor

9. The Cantos and twentieth-century poetry Peter Nicholls

10. Pound as critic Massimo Bacigalupo

11. Pound as music Michael Ingham

12. Pound: economics and politics Tim Redman

13. Pound and anti-semitism Wendy Flory

14. Pound and gender Helen M. Dennis

Bibliography.