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... featured a particular focus on the early and late Cantos as well as significant attention to the underutilized resource of Pound s markings and inscriptions in books. The online Bibliography of English Language Scholarship on Ezra Pound, assembled and edited by Archie Henderson and Roxana Preda...

... book chapters and journal articles, and a special section on Eliot in the journal Religion and Literature. As for Ezra Pound, two new books have appeared, one on the Adams Cantos, another on the early poetry. However, storm clouds are gathering for Pound studies as new and pending work begins...

... in this instance more of a good thing. Alec Marsh is responsible for the Pound section of this essay, and Matthew Hofer for the Eliot section. i  Ezra Pound a. The Cantos  In 2004, Peter Liebregts published Ezra Pound and Neo-Platonism (see AmLS 2004, pp. 151–52), one of the best books on Pound...

... [1959]) and magisterial work on Pound and modernism (The Pound Era [1971]) inspired a generation of critics, died in November 2003. That same month we lost Carroll F. Terrell, the author of the two-volume Concordance to the Cantos of Ezra Pound (1980, 1984) and founder of Paideuma...

... schoolchil- dren, preserve in colored ballpoint the scrawled notes, perceptions, and American Literary Scholarship (2010) doi 10.1215/00659142-1589054 © 2012 by Duke University Press 162 Pound and Eliot phrases that would make up Drafts and Fragments of Cantos...

... -line dialect-laden, fragmentary translation Opening for an Agamemnon. Pound used two con ated lines from the original Greek text of Aeschylus s Agamemnon as a repeat in history in Canto . e theme of betrayal and treacherous postwar homecoming, which had sparked Pound s interest after the First...

... learn from him that Pound was subjected to “electro-convulsive therapy” at St. Elizabeths.) For Rossi “the broadcasts attacking America” are “a primal scene attack” on a “cold and artificial mother.” The best part of Robert Rehder’s “The Cantos: Language of Sensation and Metaphors...

... tragedy as envisioned, say, by Edward Albee, Eugene O’Neill, or Tennessee Williams, rather than the world historical tragedy The Cantos seem to imply. The terms of the tragedy are expressed by the dilemma of the Pounds’ children. Pound had no legal standing as the father of his biological daughter...

... greatest historian however, his discomfort is palpable when he reports to Agresti his discovery that Del Mar was kike He nevertheless promises to go on reviving his glorious memoryas he does faithfully in The Cantos even as he finds that Del Mar had no guard against centralization and tyranny...

... Pound, and McNaughton refers us to moments where she Žgures in cantos 90, 91, and 93. As I suggested above, Martinelli is part of a long line of New Age women in Pound’s life. One of the interesting things about Conover’s biography of Rudge in this regard is her meeting Martinelli in Pound’s...

... many of these doublings and corrected the remainder. c. Italy and the Cantos Massimo Bacigalupo, like Berryman, wrote a book on Pound in the 1980s, The Forméd Trace: The Later Poetry of Ezra Pound (see AmLS 1980, p. 128). In Ezra Pound, Italy, and The Cantos (Clemson) he collects 16 of his previously...

...Alec Marsh; Elisabeth Däumer Duke University Press 2008 7  Pound and Eliot Alec Marsh and Elisabeth Däumer Pound and Eliot scholarship continues to be strong, with two new intro- ductions to Eliot, a “casebook” on The Cantos, an excellent book-length monograph on The Fifth...

... of The Cantos is in the o≈ng, and the myriad textual problems of the poem should keep Poundians in suspense for some time. Several new books reassessing modernism have appeared and have much to say about both poets, the peculiar language of modernism, the relation of modernism to the advent...

... intellectual heritage. His essays are devoted to the assembly of details, to the opening of passages that become passageways into the heart of The 140 Pound and Eliot Cantos. Philological, densely annotated, always intensely alive to the poem, never pedantic...

... totality represents the greatest single contribution of the year to the field, David Chinitz’s A Companion to T. S. Eliot. The Pound section of the chapter is contributed by Alec Marsh, the Eliot section by Matthew Hofer. i  Ezra Pound a. Cantos  Haoming Liu’s ambitious, demanding, and intensely...

... not be recognized as the father of his own child.” In setting up the terms of this “tragic” situation Moody anticipates his final volume on “The Tragic Years.” Moody reads every single canto, always masterfully, sometimes quite contrary to received opinion, as with Cantos 49 and 51, thereby offering new...

... the poems themselves.” In the opening sequence of poems he finds “in miniature the epic of judgement [Pound] had meant to write” and later Alec Marsh and Elisabeth Däumer 171 attempted in The Cantos. Rather than warmed-over Yeats and stale Pre- Raphaelite creampuffs that most...

... an annotated Waste Land suggest the extent to which the modernist era is receding into the distant past. That has not made their work less relevant; there is still a lot of explaining to do. Alec Marsh wrote on Pound, Elisabeth Däumer on Eliot. i  Pound a. The Cantos  Reed Way Dasenbrock has spent...

... on such topics as ‘‘Pound and the Making of Modernism ‘‘The Early Poetry five essays on The Cantos, early, middle and late, including the poem’s influence and its textual problems; on Pound as critic and translator; on his relation to music and the visual arts; on his politics, economics...

... with Christian- ity; Plotinus and company are in evidence from the first poem inA Lume Spento, “Grace before Song,” and they will accompany him to the end, like “a rushlight / to lead back to splendor,” the final lines of Canto 116. The lines are in fact a condensation of Plotinus’s finalEnnead , almost...