Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume III: The Tragic Years 1939-1972 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780198825609)

This third and final volume of A. David Moody's critical life of Ezra Pound presents Pound's personal tragedy in a tragic time. In this volume, we experience the 1939-1945 World War, and Pound's hubristic involvement in Fascist Italy's part in it; we encounter the grave moral and intellectual error of Pound holding the Jewish race responsible for the war; and his consequent downfall, being charged with treason, condemned as an anti-Semite, and shut up for twelve years in an institution for the insane. Further, we see Pound stripped for life, by his own counsel and wife, of his civil and human rights.

Pound endured what was inflicted upon him, justly and unjustly, without complaint; and continued his lifetime's effort to promote, in and through his Cantos and his translations, a consciousness of a possible humane and just social order. The contradictions run deep and compel, as tragedy does, a steady and unprejudiced contemplation and an answering depth of comprehension.

Author: A. David Moody
ISBN-10: 0198825609
ISBN-13: 9780198825609
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 12/18/2018
Pages: 702
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.40lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 2.00d