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...Gordon Lish 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Gordon Lish Canto So what the fuck is it, ekphrasis, ekphrastic? Igetup...

...Ben D. Kimpel ’76: One World and The Cantos of Ezra Pound . By Read Forest . Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press , 1981 . Pp. xii , 476 . Illustrations. $25.00 . Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 Book Reviews 107 A few passages from...

...Gordon K. Grigsby Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 Newspeak in Pound s Cantos Gordon K. Grigsby It has been noticed before that there is a damaging incongruity between the professed aesthetic method of The Cantos the method of the ideogram and its ideological substance. Some...

...Massimo Bacigalupo Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 The Poet at War: Ezra Pound s Suppressed Italian Cantos Massimo Bacigalupo Pound s plans of 1939-41 for the paradiso of the Cantos are familiar to readers of the Letters and of Charles Norman s and Noel Stock s biogra­ phies...

... for his entire career by the suspicion that he was not original, that he was a poet of no virtu whatsoever. Out of this haunting by the spirits of literary history s virtuous powers he fashioned a practice from A Lume Spento through The Cantos more continuous than the usual views of his poetic evo­ lution...

... as elusive a figure as the Pound who takes up the microphone for Radio Rome in the early forties or the Pound who retreats into the eloquent muteness of the final years. Each of these Pounds corresponds to a breach or blank in the continuity of the Cantos', each is a man who, for one reason or another...

...), The Bedlam of Art (Wash­ ington), and The Silent Years (return to Italy). This last phrase is peculiar for a poet moving into his eighth decade and still find­ ing the vigor necessary to finish and prepare the Thrones section of the Cantos for press, proceed with what became the Notes and Fragments...

...-Semitism in Pound s Cantos,2 yet John Lauber finds antiSemitism essential to the poem and central in it.3 The question seems to be largely a matter of definition how antiSemitic does one have to be to be called an anti-Semite? On the one hand, Pound, even at the height of his denunciation of the Jews (from...

... mately the Cantos. He progressed poetically, to use his own terms in The ABC of Reading, from the class of inventors to the class of masters, and the key to his growth as a major poet is not to be found as much in his passage from Imagism to Vorticism, I think, as in his more and more frequent use...

...Jo Brantley Berryman Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 Mauberley, Logopoeia, and the Language of Modernism Jo Brantley Berryman In a letter to Felix Schelling in 1922 Pound described his work in progress: The first 11 Cantos are preparation of the palette. I have to get down all...

... verbal formulation. Pound, however, was an admirer of the Enlightenment. Like the Brobdingnagians he was interested in morality, history, poetry, and 1. Pound s Metonymy: Revisiting Canto 47, Paideuma 8 (1979): 331. The Intentional-Fallacy Fallacy 109 mathematics, not in ideas, entities...

...-Brzeska, Vorticism, Lustra), or summarize a single subject which interested Pound over a span of years (a chapter on Gourmont, one on Cavalcanti). The last half of the book divides discussion of The Cantos into six chapters, treating the parts of the poem in the order of their publication. This approach...

... volume (1818-1819) affords us glimpses of Byron s italienische Leben and thus an insight into how the poet of the later cantos of Childe Harold and of Manfred became the poet of Don Juan. In Italy Byron wrote the first cantos of his masterpiece, established a liaison with Teresa Guiccioli, and looked...

... is to be a guide or Mentor. It will accompany Dante and Vergil on their journey and will in each canto point out their actions and register their words. The explanations and interpretations added will be only the necessary ones based on the authorities that have handed down the traditional sense of the poem...

... first canto. At Missolonghi in 1824, finding a very pretty Turkish female infant of ten years old, he wishes to adopt her as Juan had adopted Leila after rescuing her at the battle of Ismail. The literary rescue, as Marchand notes, anticipated the actual. Though aware of the gulf that separated art...

... attains unity through a multiple narrative viewpoint that moves toward an interpretation of man s fallen state. To the first two cantos of Childe Harold s Pil­ grimage the figure of Harold is necessary as a persona, for the poet has not yet attained the coherence of vision that renders him inde­ pendent...

... and inaccurate; as popularization it is too wooden, too ponderous, and has too many scholarly pretentions. DUKE UNIVERSITY RONALD R. BUTTERS 76: One World and The Cantos of Ezra Pound. By Forest Read. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1981. Pp. xii, 476. Illustra­ tions. $25.00. In at least...

... period in Pound s career (e.g., Chap. Ill: Gaudier-Brzeska, Vorticism, Lustra), or summarize a single subject which interested Pound over a span of years (a chapter on Gourmont, one on Cavalcanti). The last half of the book divides discussion of The Cantos into six chapters, treating the parts...