Roses from the Steel Dust : Collected Essays on Ezra Pound

by Baumann, Walter

• ISBN13: 9780943373621
• ISBN10: 094337362X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Small Pr Distribution

Author Biography

Walter Baumann was born in Switzerland and studied at the Universities of Zurich and Aberdeen, Scotland. His academic teaching career in German Studies started at Toronto University and continued at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. He is now enjoying his retirement with his cameras and books, but is still an active Poundian

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
List of Abbreviations	xi
Introduction: Fresh Roses	3	(8)
Ezra Pound's Metamorphosis During His London Years: From Late-Romanticism to Modernism	11	(16)
Ezra Pound and Magic: Old World Tricks in a New World Poem	27	(16)
Pound and Layamon's Brut	43	(10)
Secretary of Nature	53	(12)
J. Heydon
The Structure of Canto IV	65	(18)
The Odysseus Theme in Ezra Pound's Cantos	83	(16)
``--not of one bird but of many'': Pound's Janequin	99	(14)
``But to affirm the gold thread in the pattern'': An Examination of Canto 116	113	(22)
The German-Speaking World in The Cantos	135	(20)
Ezra Pound's Reception in the German-Speaking World	155	(8)
Ezra Pound and Heinrich Heine	163	(16)
Ezra Pound and Hermann Broch: A Comparison	179	(12)
Yeats and Ireland in The Cantos	191	(20)
``Sit on a midden and dream stars'': Ezra Pound and the Belfast-Born Poet Joseph Campbell (1879-1944)	211	(12)
``...with such French politeness'': The French and France in The Pisan Cantos	223	(12)
``...and Elsie/Blackeyed bitch'': Aviation Pioneers in The Cantos	235	(12)
Endnotes	247	(32)
Index	279