The Pisan Cantos

The Pisan Cantos
Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2003
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780811215589

At last, a definitive, paperback edition of Ezra Pound's finest work.

Olga Rudge and Ezra Pound

Olga Rudge and Ezra Pound
Author: Anne Conover Carson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2001
Genre: Violinists
ISBN:

This life of a woman of unusual talent and spirit, based on her unpublished letters, diaries and notebooks, will intrigue the general reader and be a mine of information for the literary and cultural historian.

Selected Lyrics

Selected Lyrics
Author: Théophile Gautier
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 550
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0300164335

'Selected Lyrics' presents a short list of nineteenth-century French poets to be studied with Théophile Gautier.

The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry
Author: Ernest Fenollosa
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2009-08-25
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0823228703

First published in 1919 by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa’s essay on the Chinese written language has become one of the most often quoted statements in the history of American poetics. As edited by Pound, it presents a powerful conception of language that continues to shape our poetic and stylistic preferences: the idea that poems consist primarily of images; the idea that the sentence form with active verb mirrors relations of natural force. But previous editions of the essay represent Pound’s understanding—it is fair to say, his appropriation—of the text. Fenollosa’s manuscripts, in the Beinecke Library of Yale University, allow us to see this essay in a different light, as a document of early, sustained cultural interchange between North America and East Asia. Pound’s editing of the essay obscured two important features, here restored to view: Fenollosa’s encounter with Tendai Buddhism and Buddhist ontology, and his concern with the dimension of sound in Chinese poetry. This book is the definitive critical edition of Fenollosa’s important work. After a substantial Introduction, the text as edited by Pound is presented, together with his notes and plates. At the heart of the edition is the first full publication of the essay as Fenollosa wrote it, accompanied by the many diagrams, characters, and notes Fenollosa (and Pound) scrawled on the verso pages. Pound’s deletions, insertions, and alterations to Fenollosa’s sometimes ornate prose are meticulously captured, enabling readers to follow the quasi-dialogue between Fenollosa and his posthumous editor. Earlier drafts and related talks reveal the developmentof Fenollosa’s ideas about culture, poetry, and translation. Copious multilingual annotation is an important feature of the edition. This masterfully edited book will be an essential resource for scholars and poets and a starting point for a renewed discussion of the multiple sources of American modernist poetry.

The Cantos of Ezra Pound

The Cantos of Ezra Pound
Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 836
Release: 1996
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780811213264

The Cantos of Ezra Pound is the most important epic poem of the twentieth century.

The Bughouse

The Bughouse
Author: Daniel Swift
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2017-02-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1448191882

‘An extraordinary book of real passionate research’ Edmund de Waal In 1945, Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for his broadcasts in Fascist Italy during the Second World War. But before the trial could take place Pound was pronounced insane. Escaping a potential death sentence he was shipped off to St Elizabeths Hospital near Washington, DC, where he was held for over a decade. At the hospital, Pound was at his most contradictory and most controversial: a genius writer – ‘The most important living poet in the English language’ according to T. S. Eliot – but also a traitor and now, seemingly, a madman. But he remained a magnetic figure. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell and John Berryman all went to visit him at what was perhaps the world’s most unorthodox literary salon: convened by a fascist and held in a lunatic asylum. Told through the eyes of his illustrious visitors, The Bughouse captures the essence of Pound – the artistic flair, the profound human flaws – whilst telling the grand story of politics and art in the twentieth century.

21 Poems

21 Poems
Author: George Oppen
Publisher: New Directions Poetry Pamphlets
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: American poetry
ISBN: 9780811226912

Here put your head, that desires nothing except familiarly: There your feet, bending your knees so that, bare (I remember from childhood), they would smell salt-sweet. --from 21 Poems

Early Poems

Early Poems
Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 67
Release: 2016-01-14
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 048681002X

American poet Ezra Pound (1885–1972) was among the most influential literary figures of the twentieth century. As a poet, he founded the Imagist movement (c. 1909–17), which advocated the use of precise, concrete images in a free-verse setting. As an editor, he fostered the careers of William Butler Yeats, T. S. Eliot, and Robert Frost. As a force in the literary world, he championed James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis. Pound also helped to create a modern movement in poetry in which, in T. S. Eliot's words, "English and American poets collaborated, knew each other's works, and influenced each other." Long an expatriate, Pound's questionable political activities during World War II distracted many from the value of his literary work. Nevertheless, his status as a major American poet has never been in doubt, as this choice collection of fifty-seven early poems amply proves. Here are poems — including a number not found in other anthologies — from Personae (1909), Exultations (1909), Ripostes (1912), and Cathay (1915) as well as selections from his major sequence "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley" (1920).

Cathay

Cathay
Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2022-05-29
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

Cathay is a compilation of traditional Chinese poems translated into English by poet Ezra Pound. These fifteen poems are seen less as strict translations and more as new pieces in their own right.

Pound/Williams

Pound/Williams
Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780811213011

Contains 170 letters selected from the surviving correspondence of two of Modernism's legendary poets. Dating from 1907 until Williams' death in 1963, each letter is reproduced in full and accompanied by explanatory notes. Includes a historical introduction setting the letters in context. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR