Ezra Pound in Context

This volume contains over forty essays on all aspects of Pound's life, work and career, by leading scholars in the field.

Ira B. Nadel (Edited by)

9780521515078, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 11 November 2010

530 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm, 0.87 kg

"An essential go-to reference." - Patrick James Dunagan, Rain Taxi Review of Books

Long at the centre of the modernist project, from editing Eliot's The Waste Land to publishing Joyce, Pound has also been a provocateur and instigator of new movements, while initiating a new poetics. This is the first volume to summarize and analyze the multiple contexts of Pound's work, underlining the magnitude of his contribution and drawing on new archival, textual and theoretical studies. Pound's political and economic ideas also receive attention. With its concentration on the contexts of history, sociology, aesthetics and politics, the volume will provide a portrait of Pound's unusually international reach: an American-born, modern poet absorbing the cultures of England, France, Italy and China. These essays situate Pound in the social and material realities of his time and will be invaluable for students and scholars of Pound and modernism.

Introduction
Chronology
Part I. Biography and Works: 1. Prose criticism Vincent Sherry
2. Poetics Ellen Stauder
3. Translation Steven G. Yao
4. Romance languages David Ten Eyck
5. Letters Demetres Tryphonopoulos
6. Editor, anthologist John G. Nichols
7. Education Matthew Hofer
8. Journalism Eric Bulson
9. Politics Alec Marsh
10. Economics Leon Surette
11. Radio broadcasts Ben Friedlander
12. The law Robert Spoo
13. Textual criticism Mark Byron
14. Archives Caterina Ricciardi
15. The lives of Pound Ira B. Nadel
Part II. Historical and Cultural Context: 16. The classics Peter Liebregts
17. Provençal and the troubadours William Paden
18. Dante and Italian poetry Timothy Redman
19. America Emily Mitchell Wallace
20. Venice John Gery
21. London Peter Brooker
22. Paris Patricia Cockram
23. Rapallo and Rome Massimo Bacigalupo
24. Pisa Ronald Bush
25. Imagism Ethan Lewis
26. Vorticism Miranda Hickman
27. Music Margaret Fisher
28. Visual arts Rebecca Beasley
29. Confucius Fang Lan
30. The Orient Zhaoming Qian
31. Little magazines Craig Monk
32. Publishing and publishers Gregory Barnhisel
33. Modernism George Bornstein
34. Fascism Serenella Zanotti
35. Anti-Semitism Alex Houen
36. Gender and sexuality Helen Dennis
37. Race Michael Coyle
38. Travel Daniel Katz
Part III. Critical Reception: 39. Pound before Paris, 1908–20 Barry Ahearn
40. Pound before Pisa, 1920–45 John X. Cooper
41. Pound after Pisa, 1945–72 Steven Sicari
42. Influence James Longenbach
Further reading
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC], Literary studies: general [DSB], Literary theory [DSA], Literature & literary studies [D]