...William M. Chace Pound Ezra , Posthumous Cantos , ed. Bacigalupo Massimo ( Manchester, UK : Carcanet , 2015 ), 220 pp. Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017...

...William M. Chace Moody David , Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume II: The Epic Years, 1921 – 1939 . ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2014 ), 421 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...

...Charles Altieri This article elaborates on the dilemma faced by modernist poets in seeking to define values in an intellectual context that was post-Romantic and post-epistemic. Pound and Stevens, for example, reacted strongly against the ways that Romantic writers had tried to tie the rhetorical...

... critique of what the Romantic-Symbolist tradition of English poetry had become in the twentieth century. Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and other late Symbolists had turned artists into advocates of an irrational wisdom superior to reason and common sense, thus isolating—so Kermode argued—the world of art from...

... Stevens and T. S. Eliot are dismissed as “merely rational,” while H. D. and Duncan himself are elevated to the uppermost ranks, just beneath Ezra Pound. The essay focuses on the peculiarity of “Wardour Street” diction returning to poetry in the postmodern era (especially in the verse of Gjertrud...

.... Although Davie understood that Pasternak was as much a modernist as T. S. Eliot or Ezra Pound, he also argued that the Russian's poetry, unlike theirs, sought, on explicitly moral grounds, to maintain conventional syntax and purity of diction, with the result that Pasternak's verse communicates...

.... By way of introducing the sixth and final installment of the Common Knowledge symposium “Peace by Other Means,” this essay proposes that Leigh Fermor's narrative be understood in terms of commerce, rather than consensus. It concludes by examining Ezra Pound's use of the word commerce in his poem “A Pact...

... reveals herself a romantic. In so doing, she takes her place, a modest one, in the ranks of twentieth-century writers (Eliot, Pound, Yeats, Brecht) who also ventured into the construction of unworkable social visions that would supplant what they saw around them. Her adventure, while less ambitious...

... It’s more than thirty years since the first words (“Go to hell”) were exchanged between us. The Pound Era had just appeared. I read it and despaired of a future in Kenner’s racket. A friend, Rudy Ising, likewise read it and despaired. Our joint letter to Hugh Kenner commenced “Go to hell...

... M. Perl, Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala, Rei Terada, Caryl Emerson, Aileen Kelly, Adam Michnik, Péter Nádas INTRODUCTION: SUBJUNCTIVE PROPHECY “Perhaps be damned,” Ezra Pound wrote in the margin of The Waste Land type- script...

... of the twentieth century and Davenport was also an important fic- tion writer and illustrator is a labor of love. Between 1958 and 2002, Kenner and Davenport, who had met in 1952 when both were giving papers on Ezra Pound at the English Institute, held at Columbia University, exchanged over 1,000 letters...

... in the United States for his excellent biocritical study (Harvard, 1999) of the avant-garde poet Kitasono Katue, who served, from the mid-1930s on, as Ezra Pound's primary conduit to the stylization of Japanese poetics that he so admired. “Kit Kat,” as Pound fondly called the poet he knew only via...

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... contradictionsbetween andprose, however, poetry areless a questionof so shocking a skull” is how another friend of Pound’s made the same point. name, meant that Eliot only played at being staid. “Under that fine smooth skin, ploy. He was not called Old Possum for nothing: Ezra Pound, who gave the him...

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