The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:11th Feb '99
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An international team of scholars provides an invaluable introduction to Pound's work and life.
This Companion contains fifteen chapters by leading international scholars. They consider Pound's entire corpus, and also situate his work in the context of modernism. Taken together, the chapters offer a sustained examination of one of the most versatile, influential and certainly controversial poets of the modern period.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.
'The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound should be in every library having literature collections. It is highly recommended.' William Baker
ISBN: 9780521649209
Dimensions: 227mm x 152mm x 20mm
Weight: 520g
352 pages