How do you read Ezra Pound?

Hardcover – January 1, 1931. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. In this book, Ezra Pound, with rancor and prejudice, examines topics such as literary instruction, publishing, degrees of writer greatness, why books?, language, the history of writing, critics and criticism, music, and poetry.

What is Ezra Pound’s most controversial work?

It won the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1949, and although the award was (and remains) controversial, “The Pisan Cantos” is the finest thing that Pound ever wrote. It’s the one place in his work where his learning is fused with genuine personal feeling.

What is a cantos in English?

Canto is an Italian word coming from Latin which means song or singing. From Italian it was borrowed in English to mean a section of a poem.

What is Ezra Pound’s cantos?

We can hardly scratch the surface in this short introduction to Pound’s Cantos, but we’re going to address some of the key aspects of the poem and offer an analysis of its overall aims and features. Ezra Pound referred to The Cantos as, variously, ‘an epic including history’ and, with more muted self-praise, a ‘ragbag’.

Why should I not read The Cantos?

Many readers may be put off reading The Cantos by Pound’s anti-Semitic views; others may be put off because they find the work impenetrable, even unreadable. Pound himself said that the structure of The Cantos could be analysed as follows: ‘Live man goes down into world of dead.

What is pound’s ‘journey’ in Canto?

In this opening Canto, then, Pound is suggesting that the ‘journey’ that lies ahead for him – the poetic journey of embarking on The Cantos – is like Odysseus embarking on his journey in one of Western literature’s first great epics.

Where was Ezra Pound photographed?

Image: Ezra Pound photographed in Kensington, London, October 22, 1913. Photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn, first published in Coburn’s (New York: Knopf, 1922); Wikimedia Commons; public domain. Loading…