A Draft of XXX Cantos

A Draft of XXX Cantos
Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1990
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780811211284

The Cantos have been called Ezra Pound's intellectual diary, composed over the course of sixty years. Long out of print as a separate volume--it was originally published in 1933--this epic of nine groupings of poems is now being issued as a New Directions Paperbook.

Section: Rock-drill

Section: Rock-drill
Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1956
Genre: American poetry
ISBN:

The most recent portion of the long poem which has occupied him for the last twenty years.

Selected Poems of Ezra Pound

Selected Poems of Ezra Pound
Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1957-01-17
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0811221903

Ezra Pound has been called "the inventor of modern poetry in English." The verse and criticism which he produced during the early years of the twentieth century very largely determined the directions of creative writing in our time; virtually every major poet in England and America today has acknowledged his help or influence. Pound's lyric genius, his superb technique, and his fresh insight into literary problems make him one of the small company of men who through the centuries have kept poetry alive—one of the great innovators. This book offers a compact yet representative selection of Ezra Pound's poems and translations. The span covered is Pound's entire writing career, from his early lyrics and the translations of Provençal songs to his English version of Sophocles' Trachiniae. Included are parts of his best known works—the Chinese translations, the sequence called Hugh Selwyn Mauberly, the Homage to Sextus Propertius. The Cantos, Pound's major epic, are presented in generous selections, chosen to emphasize the main themes of the whole poem.