Before you leave...
Take 20% off your first order
20% off
Enter the code below at checkout to get 20% off your first order
New Selected Poems and Translations (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811217330)
Vendor:
Ezra Pound
Product type:
Books
- $19.95
$19.95- $19.95
- Unit price
- per
Subtotal:
$19.95
Description
xThis newly revised and greatly expanded edition of Ezra Pound's Selected Poems is intended to articulate Pound for the twenty-first century. Gone are many of the "stale creampuffs" (as Pound called them) of the 1949 edition. Instead, new emphasis has been laid on the interpenetration of original composition and translation within Pound's career. New features of this edition include the complete "Homage to Sextus Propertius" in its original lineation, early translations from Cavalcanti, Heine, and the troubadours, as well as late translations of Sophocles, and the Confucian Odes.
As a lifelong expatriate, Pound parceled out his work to a variety of journals in England, America, France, and Italy. This new edition takes account of this complex publishing history by giving the poems in the chronological order of their original magazine publication. We can observe Pound as he first emerges onto the literary scene in the pages of Ford Madox Ford's English Review and Harriet Monroe's Chicago-based Poetry, and then as an agent provocateur for the avant-garde Little Review, Blast, and The Dial.
Unlike all previous selections, this volume provides annotation to all the early poems as well as a running commentary on the later Cantos -- indispensable to any reader wanting to follow Pound on his epic odyssey through ancient China, medieval Provence, the Italian Renaissance, the early American Republic, and the darkness of the twentieth century. The editor, Richard Sieburth, provides a chronology of Pound's life, a new preface, and an informative afterword, "Selecting Pound." Also included in the appendix are T. S. Eliot's and John Berryman's original introductions to Pound's Selected Poems.
Author: Ezra Pound
ISBN-10: 0811217337
ISBN-13: 9780811217330
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 10/29/2010
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.12w x 1.09d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/25/2010
As a lifelong expatriate, Pound parceled out his work to a variety of journals in England, America, France, and Italy. This new edition takes account of this complex publishing history by giving the poems in the chronological order of their original magazine publication. We can observe Pound as he first emerges onto the literary scene in the pages of Ford Madox Ford's English Review and Harriet Monroe's Chicago-based Poetry, and then as an agent provocateur for the avant-garde Little Review, Blast, and The Dial.
Unlike all previous selections, this volume provides annotation to all the early poems as well as a running commentary on the later Cantos -- indispensable to any reader wanting to follow Pound on his epic odyssey through ancient China, medieval Provence, the Italian Renaissance, the early American Republic, and the darkness of the twentieth century. The editor, Richard Sieburth, provides a chronology of Pound's life, a new preface, and an informative afterword, "Selecting Pound." Also included in the appendix are T. S. Eliot's and John Berryman's original introductions to Pound's Selected Poems.
Author: Ezra Pound
ISBN-10: 0811217337
ISBN-13: 9780811217330
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 10/29/2010
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.12w x 1.09d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/25/2010
Recently Viewed Products
- Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh.