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...Angus Fletcher Copyright © Hofstra University 2002 m Ezra Pound’s Egypt and the Origin of the Cantos Angus Fletcher A t the origin of the Cantos lies a puzzle that no one has ever attempt­ ed to solve: Ezra Pound’s sudden loss of interest in Egypt. Egypt pos­...

... return a catastrophic judgment against the na- tion as he had against Egypt [and] signified God’s will that Afri- can Americans too would no longer be sold as bondspeople, that they too would go free. (83) If Exodus was God’s love letter to African Americans and a firm promise...

... offered more than a slight intimation of the ensuing crisis. From the beginning, Britain was far from a major player in the day’s simmering Middle East tensions. Before the canal’s nationalization, Egypt, like its fellow Arab states, refused to recog­ nize the State of Israel, and both Egypt...

.... Paying equal attention to American and British poets, Bryant devotes two chapters to modernist women poets, three to poets after. She first looks at H. D.’s late epic long poem, Helen in Egypt, within the context of popular historical epic films that re-envisioned ancient Greece, Troy, and Egypt...

... in Egypt (1961), and “Winter Love” (1972) in relation to conventional museum taxonomies. In many museum galleries, ancient Greek and Egyptian artifacts are set in a continuous narrative (as in the British Museum) or in parallel (as in the Metropolitan Museum of Art), which encourages patrons to approach...

... African-Caribbean vernacular echoes the typical nurse-mammy while both she and Ma Kilman hark back to African tribal lore for wisdom and healing (“You Can Build” 72). Wal­ cott’s Eurycleia serves the same functions as Homer’s, but Walcott makes of her birthplace in Egypt (9) an essential...

... (2001): 467-509 Fitzgerald, F. Scott. See Hollington Fletcher, Angus. “Ezra Pound’s Egypt and the Origin of the Cantos." 48.1 (2002): 1-21 Fluet, Lisa. “Modernism and Disciplinary History: On H. G. Wells and T. S. Eliot” 50.3 (2004): 283-316 Forster, E. M. See Bailey; MarkleyjTurner...

... describes as “the first generation to think and speak and write wholly in English . . . since the coming forth from Egypt five millennia ago” (Ozick 9, qtd. in Wirth-Nesher 128), we might be tempted to un­ derstand the narrative Wirth-Nesher offers here to be a familiar story of assimilation...

... into battle; Adam Piette’s “Keith Douglas and the Poetry of the Second World War” opens by contemplating Douglas’s relation surrealism as a passing through the looking glass: “The brutal comedy of the war from Egypt to Tunisia is stylised according to the economy of Carroll’s nonsense . . . . The comedy has...

... to Merrill’s young Stonington friend Torren Blair, recommending books and music from his lifetime of cultural exploration. The volume’s final letter (dated February 1, before his death on the 6th) is to the author of a book on Alexandria, Egypt, thanking him for evoking memories of (in a phrase that gives...

... ideological blending of anticolonialism, communism, and uplift in a transnational career as a journalist, writer, and activist that included spells in Nkrumah’s Ghana, where she worked as the nation’s first director of television, and in Nasser’s Egypt. Rasberry’s memorable account of Graham’s ambitious...

... of the Hebrew people insist that they should “go on back to Egypt where we belong … [and] kill [Moses] for bringing [them] off” ( MMM 257) from Egypt. Emancipated, the Hebrew people sometimes sound like a “clamoring mob” (258), emitting “the mad clamor of the multitudes” (257). Attuned to the possibility...

...: H.D.’s Helen in Egypt as a Response to Pound’s Cantos. ”44.4 (1998): 464-83 Vandivere, Julie. “Waves and Fragments: Linguistic Construction as Subject For­ mation in Virginia Woolf.” 42.2 (1996): 221-33 Vincent, John. “Reports of Looting and Insane Buggery Behind Altars: John...

..., Lassner turns to Manning’s 1949 novel An Artist Among the Missing and her 1977-80 books The Levant Trilogy, all of which deal with wartime Egypt and Palestine. Lassner points to the way Man­ ning figures the desert outposts—what postcolonial theory would define 99 Annette Gilson...

... troping of Egypt to Miles Davis’s playing on Kind of Blue as an expression of black inferiority. It is a dizzying array of subjects that the author approaches in a variety of ways, so that there isn’t one thesis, although Mackey’s motivations remain clear and consistent. Mackey, in whatever...

... become involved with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, he was ripe for the discovery he made in Egypt in 1904, when Horus appeared to him, dictated the Books of the Law , and enabled him to found the religion of Thelema. Boone, who reminds us of some of these developments in Crowley’s unique career...

... already incorporated a notion of uneven development in which some parts of the globe remained within the premodern mode of tradition-direction: The phase of high growth potential characterizes more than half the world’s population: India, Egypt, and China (which have already grown...

... with a somewhat triumphalist (re)assertion of Yusuf’s virtue and powers of reading and interpretation of others’ dreams on a somewhat larger scale than Salim’s interpretation of Ferdinand’s. The Qur’anic Yusuf saves Egypt and his family. 42 Schwerdt argues that Yusuf’s beauty “feminizes” him, as does his...

... and Fascism,” the two pictures are explained by this caption: 72 Italian Fascist Exhibitions and Ezra Pounds Move to the Imperial On the left: Obelisk formerly in the Circus Maximus (now in the Piazza del Popolo) brought to Rome by Augustus and com­ memorating the Roman conquest of Egypt...

... of a wise old woman) just before the Israelites’ flight out of Egypt, and as they make their way through the desert, the Talmud says that the Israelites actually carried the coffin containing Joseph’s bones alongside the Ark containing the Tablets. Explicating this odd conjunction of mortal remains and holy...