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Imagist Poetry: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions)

4 reviews
Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, ...

Dover Publications, 1999

An unforgettable collection of masterpieces.
Of all the movements in 20th century literature, Imagism is my favorite. If you're as sick as I am of angry, modern, "confessional" poets (yes, I'm sure your childhood was awful, now see a therapist and get on Prozac), then take a look at this collection. While some of the poems here are widely anthologized (including Wallace Steven's, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" and William ...

The Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti
Ezra Pound, Guido Cavalcanti

BiblioBazaar, 2008

The Spirit of Romance
Ezra Pound

New Directions, 2005

Written in 1910 when Pound was only 25 years old, and later revised by the author, this critical work has long stood as an important stage in the development of Pound's poetics, and a dramatic revaluation of Europe's literary tradition. Pound surveys the course of literature from the fall of the Roman Empire through the dawn of the Renaissance, paying special attention to the Provençal poets and to Dante. Now with an introduction by Richard ...

The Cantos of Ezra Pound (New Directions Paperbook)

27 reviews
Ezra Pound

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1996

To Mr. Meyerhofer,
Ezra Pound is the greatest American poet. I love your condemnation of him. And I do not wish to thought of as sarcastic because the controversy is half of the aura about Mr. Pound's dynamic presence in the poetry of the past century. Robert Graves called Pound a charlatan and I do not know if he is correct. If he is correct than all charlatans must attain to the greatness of Ezra Loomis ...

Literary Essays of Ezra Pound

2 reviews
Ezra Pound

New Directions, 1968

Great essays from the modernist era
I find that reading just the first two essay was worth the money I spent on this book. Pound writes his literary essay with creativity, intelligence, and humor that are rare even among the best essayists. "A retrospect" is a great guide to use for those who takes interest in writing poetry. Likewise "How to Read" will serve as a great crash course for the history of poetry, and provides us ...

Pound/Joyce: The Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce, With Pound's Critical Essays and Articles About Joyce

1 review
Ezra Pound, James Joyce

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1970

SURE WE'VE ALL HEARD OF EZRA POUND BUT WHO ACTUALLY READS HIM? OR JOYCE!
Within these three hundred elegantly published pages from New Directions we may come to understand how Ezra Pound served as brilliant and talented midwife and nursemaid of the modernist literary movement, including editing TS Eliot's Wasteland, cutting out the waste and leaving the essential, creating the epic poem we now study. Herein we may read Pound serving in every way the ground breaking ...

Ezra and Dorothy Pound: Letters in Captivity, 1945-1946
Ezra Pound, Dorothy Pound

Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

These fascinating letters capture the most traumatic experience of Ezra Pound's life, when he was incarcerated at the end of World War II and indicted for treason. Omar Pound and Robert Spoo have collected and edited the unpublished correspondence between the poet and his wife, combining it with military and FBI documents, previously unknown photographs, and an extensive, insightful introduction, to create the definitive work on this period of ...

Ezra Pound: Poems and Translations (Library of America)

2 reviews
Ezra Pound

Library of America, 2003

my how the mighty have fallen, but to what benefit?
Not long ago English Departments were busy with dissertation after dissertation on Ezra Pound. At the time, many complained of a Pound Factory or Pound Industry. Yet today, there is not one Amazon review of this important collection of modern poetry. We all know the charges against Pound, anti-American, Anti-Semite, etc... and there can and should be no justification for any of the truly ugly ...

The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition

1 review
Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound

Fordham University Press, 2008

Presents Pound's own edited version of Fenollosa's essay including notes and plates
Influences on the foundation American poetics have long quoted Ernest Fenollosa's essay on the Chinese written language which was first published in 1919 by the legendary Ezra Pound. "The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry" newly re-edited by the team of Haun Saussy, Jonathan Stalling and Lucas Klein presents Pound's own edited version of Fenollosa's essay including notes and ...

SELECTED POEMS

5 reviews
EZRA POUND

FABER AND FABER, 1948

Excellent selection of Pound's poems
This book is a very good introduction to the work of Ezra Pound. There's a little bit of everything! You get some of his earlier, shorter poems, like "In a Station of the Metro," some translations, like "The Seafarer," or "Homage to Sextus Propertius," the famous Mauberley sequence (this book includes both the "original" poem "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley" and Pound's later poem "Mauberley" whereas ...

Personae: The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound

4 reviews
Ezra Pound

Faber and Faber, 2001

An Excellent Collection
I don't know what the other reviewer is talking about, but the book is arranged just fine. In fact, one would think that with the addition of the Note on the Text it would be irrefutably clear how it was arranged & selected, but I guess at least one guy didn't think so. The majority of the book is roughly chronological in the way Ezra Pound chose. The poems are broken into groups: Poems of ...

The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan (New Directions Paperbook)

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1979

Fifteen of the most celebrated plays of the Noh theatre repertory are given here in their entirety and five more are presented in synopsis. The translations are grounded in a critical discussion of the Noh theatre, its history and place in the court life of Japan, a description of the stage on which it is performed, its music, costumes, and masks, and the dance which is usually the high point of the performance. Both Pound and Fenollosa discuss ...

The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

2 reviews
Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound

City Lights Publishers, 2001

Fenollosa's woderful book on human language and art
Fenollosa's Book: "The Chinese written character as a medium for poetry" is a marvelous one. However its title is deceiving. It suggests that its subject were limited to the written form of some kind of oriental poetry. On the contrary, I never learned so much general concepts from a single book as from this tiny one about so distant arguments such as language as a mean of communication, ...

Lark in the Morning: The Verses of the Troubadours, a Bilingual Edition

1 review

University Of Chicago Press, 2005

Illuminating
Excellent ! I'm not much the poetry reader, but this was fascinating trip through another time and place. Unique, witty, actually fun to read. Kehew's introduction to the subject is smart and thought-provoking. Made everything come together in a way that I could understand and appreciate. Thanks, Kehew and company.

ABC of Reading

17 reviews
Ezra Pound

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1960

Read this book with a pen in your hand
Read this book with a pen in your hand because you are going to want to underline the dozens of amazing sentences and little paragraphs, as well as scribble complaints and disparaging comments next to the rash and just plain faulty ones. This book will astonish and anger a thoughtful reader. It is not a coherent essay that moves logically from point to point - it is a jarring, manic ...

Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky (Correspondence of Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound, Louis Zukofsky

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1987

Guide to Kulchur (New Directions Paperbook, Ndp257)
Ezra Pound

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1968

Pound, Guide to Kulchur. an iconoclastic revision of culture.

Selected Prose 1909-1965 (New Directions Paperbook)

2 reviews
Ezra Pound

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1975

Much great prose
I love a lot of the writing in this book: Pound's obit for Eliot, the opening note, the essays on Confucius and Mencius, the essay on Adams and Jefferson, etc. Robert Anton Wilson also highly recommends this book.

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