Early Writings (Pound, Ezra) Poems and Prose

by Pound, Ezra; Nadel, Ira

• ISBN13: 9780142180136
• ISBN10: 0142180130
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-28
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

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.

Author Biography

Ezra Pound (1885-û1972) is generally considered the poet most responsible for defining and promoting a modernist aesthetic in poetry.
Ira Nadel, professor of English at the University of British Columbia, is the author of Ezra Pound, A Literary Life and the general editor of The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xxvii
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. xxix
Brief Chronology	p. xxxi
Poems	p. 1
To the Raphaelite Latinists	p. 3
Cino	p. 4
Na Audiart	p. 7
Villonaud for This Yule	p. 10
Histrion	p. 12
In Durance	p. 13
Revolt	p. 15
Sestina: Altaforte	p. 17
Piere Vidal Old	p. 19
Ballad of the Goodly Fere	p. 22
"Blandula, Tenulla, Vagula"	p. 25
Und Drang	p. 26
Redondillas, or Something of That Sort	p. 35
To Whistler, American	p. 43
Portrait d'une Femme	p. 45
N.Y.	p. 47
The Seafarer	p. 48
The Return	p. 52
Fratres Minores	p. 53
The Complete Poetical Works of T.E. Hulme	p. 54
Autumn	p. 55
Mana Aboda	p. 55
Above the Dock	p. 55
The Embankment	p. 56
Conversion	p. 56
Salutation the Third	p. 57
Song of the Bowmen of Shu	p. 59
The River Song	p. 61
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter	p. 63
Exile's Letter	p. 65
Tenzone	p. 68
The Garden	p. 69
1915: February	p. 70
Commission	p. 72
A Pact	p. 74
Further Instructions	p. 75
A Song of the Degrees	p. 77
Ite	p. 79
Liu Ch'e	p. 80
The Coming of War: Actaeon	p. 81
In a Station of the Metro	p. 82
The Encounter	p. 83
L'Art, 1910	p. 84
Ancient Music	p. 85
Provincia Deserta	p. 86
Villanelle: The Psychological Hour	p. 89
Near Perigord	p. 91
L'Homme Moyen Sensuel	p. 98
Homage to Sextus Propertius	p. 106
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley	p. 127
The Cantos (1917-1922)	p. 143
Three Cantos of a Poem of Some Length	p. 145
The Fourth Canto	p. 163
The Fifth Canto	p. 167
The Sixth Canto	p. 171
The Seventh Canto	p. 175
The Eighth Canto	p. 179
Prose	p. 185
What I Feel About Walt Whitman	p. 187
The Wisdom of Poetry	p. 190
Psychology and Troubadours	p. 195
Imagisme	p. 209
How I Began	p. 211
Troubadours-Their Sorts and Conditions	p. 216
The Serious Artist	p. 233
A Retrospect	p. 252
The Tradition	p. 266
Mr. Hueffer and the Prose Tradition in Verse	p. 270
Vorticism	p. 278
Affirmations	p. 292
Chinese Poetry	p. 297
Chinese Poetry-II	p. 301
The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry	p. 304
James Joyce, At Last the Nover Appears	p. 330
Paris Letter, May 1922, Ulysses	p. 334
Explanatory Notes	p. 343
Index of Titles and First Lines	p. 405
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