The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound

An international team of scholars provides an invaluable introduction to Pound's work and life.

Ira B. Nadel (Edited by)

9780521431170, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 11 February 1999

352 pages
23.6 x 15.7 x 2.6 cm, 0.673 kg

'The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound should be in every library having literature collections. It is highly recommended.' William Baker

This Companion contains fifteen chapters by leading international scholars, who together reflect diverse but complementary approaches to the study of Ezra Pound's poetry and prose. They consider the poetics, foreign influences, economics, politics and publication history of Pound's entire corpus, and reveal his importance in developing some of the key movements in twentieth-century poetry. The book also situates Pound's work in the context of Modernism, illustrating his influence on contemporaries like T. S. Eliot and James Joyce. Taken together, the chapters offer a sustained examination of one of the most versatile, influential and certainly controversial poets of the modern period.

Contributors
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Chronology
1. Introduction: understanding Pound Ira B. Nadel
2. Pound and the making of modernism George Bornstein
3. Early poetry 1908–1920 Hugh Witemeyer
4. Early Cantos I-XLI Daniel Albright
5. Middle Cantos XLII-LXXI Ian F. A. Bell
6. Late Cantos LXXII-CXVII Ronald Bush
7. Beyond The Cantos: Pound and American poetry Peter Nicholls
8. The texts of The Cantos Richard Taylor
9. Pound as critic Massimo Bacigalupo
10. Pound as translator Ming Xie
11. Pound and the visual arts Reed Way Dasenbrock
12. Pound and music Michael Ingham
13. Pound's politics and economics Tim Redman
14. Pound, women and gender Helen M. Dennis
15. Pound and antisemitism Wendy Flory
Further reading
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC]