Ezra Pound in Context

by Edited by Ira B. Nadel

• ISBN13: 9780521515078
• ISBN10: 0521515076
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-12-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Long at the centre of the modernist project, from editing Eliot's The Waste Land to publishing Joyce, Pound has also been a provocateur and instigator of new movements, while initiating a new poetics. This is the first volume to summarize and analyze the multiple contexts of Pound's work, underlining the magnitude of his contribution and drawing on new archival, textual and theoretical studies. Pound's political and economic ideas also receive attention. With its concentration on the contexts of history, sociology, aesthetics and politics, the volume will provide a portrait of Pound's unusually international reach: an American-born, modern poet absorbing the cultures of England, France, Italy and China. These essays situate Pound in the social and material realities of his time and will be invaluable for students and scholars of Pound and modernism.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chronology

Biography and Works

Prose criticism

Poetics

Translation

Romance languages

Letters

Editor, anthologist

Education

Journalism

Politics

Economics

Radio broadcasts

The law

Textual criticism

Archives

The lives of Pound

Historical and Cultural Context

The classics

Provençal and the troubadours

Dante and Italian poetry

America

Venice

London

Paris

Rapallo and Rome

Pisa

Imagism

Vorticism

Music

Visual arts

Confucius

The Orient

Little magazines

Publishing and publishers

Modernism

Fascism

Anti-Semitism

Gender and sexuality

Race

Travel

Critical Reception

Pound before Paris, 1908-1920

Pound before Pisa, 1920-1945

Pound after Pisa, 1945-1972

Influence

Further reading

Index

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