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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound by : Ira B. Nadel
Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound written by Ira B. Nadel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ezra Pound is one of the most visible and influential poets of the twentieth century. He is also one of the most complex, his poetry containing historical and mythical allusions, experiments of form and style and often controversial political views. Yet Pound's life and work continue to fascinate. This Introduction, first published in 2005, is designed to help students reading Pound for the first time. Pound scholar Ira B. Nadel provides a guide to the rich webs of allusion and stylistic borrowings and innovations in Pound's writing. He offers a clear overview of Pound's life, works, contexts and reception history and his multidimensional career as a poet, translator, critic, editor, anthologist and impresario, a career that placed him at the heart of literary modernism. This invaluable and accessible introduction explains the huge contribution Pound made to the development of modernism in the early twentieth century.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound by : Ira B. Nadel
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound written by Ira B. Nadel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-11 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international team of scholars provides an invaluable introduction to Pound's work and life.
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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction explains the contribution Pound made to the development of modernism in the early twentieth century."--Jacket.
Book Synopsis The New Ezra Pound Studies by : Mark Byron
Download or read book The New Ezra Pound Studies written by Mark Byron and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on recent developments in Pound scholarship and research, including newly available primary sources and methodological advances in cognate fields.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry by : Christopher Beach
Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry written by Christopher Beach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-23 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry is designed to give readers a brief but thorough introduction to the various movements, schools, and groups of American poets in the twentieth century. It will help readers to understand and analyze modern and contemporary poems. The first part of the book deals with the transition from the nineteenth-century lyric to the modernist poem, focussing on the work of major modernists such as Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and W. C. Williams. In the second half of the book, the focus is on groups such as the poets of the Harlem Renaissance, the New Critics, the Confessionals, and the Beats. In each chapter, discussions of the most important poems are placed in the larger context of literary, cultural, and social history.
Book Synopsis Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism by : Tim Redman
Download or read book Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism written by Tim Redman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-03-29 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating account of Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism allows the reader to understand the causes and results of Pound's ideology and actions.
Book Synopsis The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia by : Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos
Download or read book The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia written by Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-04-30 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ezra Pound forever changed the course of poetry. The author of a vast body of literature, his enormous range of references and use of multiple languages make him one of the most obscure authors and—because of his Fascism, anti-Semitism, and questionable sanity—one of the most controversial. This encyclopedia is a concise yet comprehensive guide to his life and writings. Included are more than 250 alphabetically arranged entries on such topics as Arabic history, Chinese translation, dance, Hilda Doolittle, Egyptian literature, Robert Frost, and Pound's publications. The entries are written by roughly 100 expert contributors and cite works for further reading. Ezra Pound forever changed the course of poetry. His vast body of poetry and critical works make him one of the 20th century's most prolific writers, and his influence has shaped later poets, great and small. His enormous range of references, deliberate obscurity, and use of multiple languages make him one of the most difficult authors and— because of his Fascism, anti-Semitism, and questionable sanity—one of the most controversial figures in American literary history. This encyclopedia is a concise yet comprehensive guide to his life and writings.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry by : Peter Howarth
Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry written by Peter Howarth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. In-depth chapters on Pound, Eliot, Yeats and the American modernists outline how formal experiments take on the new world of mass media, democracies, total war and changing religious belief. Chapters on the avant-gardes and later modernism examine how their styles shift as they try to re-make the community of readers. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English.
Book Synopsis Ezra Pound in Context by : Ira B. Nadel
Download or read book Ezra Pound in Context written by Ira B. Nadel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long at the centre of the modernist project, from editing Eliot's The Waste Land to publishing Joyce, Pound has also been a provocateur and instigator of new movements, while initiating a new poetics. This is the first volume to summarize and analyze the multiple contexts of Pound's work, underlining the magnitude of his contribution and drawing on new archival, textual and theoretical studies. Pound's political and economic ideas also receive attention. With its concentration on the contexts of history, sociology, aesthetics and politics, the volume will provide a portrait of Pound's unusually international reach: an American-born, modern poet absorbing the cultures of England, France, Italy and China. These essays situate Pound in the social and material realities of his time and will be invaluable for students and scholars of Pound and modernism.
Book Synopsis Ezra Pound and the Visual Culture of Modernism by : Rebecca Beasley
Download or read book Ezra Pound and the Visual Culture of Modernism written by Rebecca Beasley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-21 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important contribution to the study of Pound's influences and of the relationship between modernism and art.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism by : Pericles Lewis
Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism written by Pericles Lewis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-03 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a century after its beginnings, modernism still has the power to shock, alienate or challenge readers. Modernist art and literature remain thought of as complex and difficult. This introduction explains in a readable, lively style how modernism emerged, how it is defined, and how it developed in different forms and genres. Pericles Lewis offers students a survey of literature and art in England, Ireland and Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century. He also provides an overview of critical thought on modernism and its continuing influence on the arts today, reflecting the interests of current scholarship in the social and cultural contexts of modernism. The comparative perspective on Anglo-American and European modernism shows how European movements have influenced the development of English-language modernism. Illustrated with works of art and featuring suggestions for further study, this is the ideal introduction to understanding and enjoying modernist literature and art.
Book Synopsis Early Writings (Pound, Ezra) by : Ezra Pound
Download or read book Early Writings (Pound, Ezra) written by Ezra Pound and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ezra Pound makes his Penguin Classics debut with this unique selection of his early poems and prose, edited with an introductory essay and notes by Pound expert Ira Nadel. The poetry includes such early masterpieces as “The Seafarer,” “Homage to Sextus Propertius,” “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley,” and the first eight of Pound’s incomparable “Cantos.” The prose includes a series of articles and critical pieces, with essays on Imagism, Vorticism, Joyce, and the well-known “Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry.” First time in Penguin Classics Includes generous selections of Pound's poetry, as well as an assortment of prose
Book Synopsis Ezra Pound: The Cantos by : George Kearns
Download or read book Ezra Pound: The Cantos written by George Kearns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-11-23 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pound's 800 page Cantos, written over a period of more than fifty years (1917-1969), invites the reader to join the poet on a journey from darkness and despair towards light and positive activity. In this book, George Kearns addresses the reader approaching The Cantos for the first time. He examines the poem's aesthetic and political-ethical-didactic dimensions and shows that despite its complexity and the many objections which can be raised to its poetics and politics, its study can be greatly rewarding.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to American Poets by : Mark Richardson
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to American Poets written by Mark Richardson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion brings together essays on some fifty-four American poets, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, "confessional" poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to T.S. Eliot by : Anthony David Moody
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to T.S. Eliot written by Anthony David Moody and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential introduction and handbook for students and other readers of T. S. Eliot.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound by : Ira B. Nadel
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound written by Ira B. Nadel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-11 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Introduction to Robert Frost by : Robert Faggen
Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Robert Frost written by Robert Faggen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-11 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Frost is one of the most popular American poets and remains widely read. His work is deceptively simple, but reveals its complexities upon close reading. This Introduction provides a comprehensive but intensive look at his remarkable oeuvre. The poetry is discussed in detail in relation to ancient and modern traditions as well as to Frost's particular interests in language and sound, metaphor, science, religion, and politics. Faggen both looks back to the literary traditions that shape Frost's use of form and language, and forward to examine his influence on poets writing today. The recent controversies in Frost criticism and in particular in Frost biography are brought into sharp focus as they have shaped the poet's legacy and legend. The most accessible overview available, this book will be invaluable to students, readers and admirers of Frost.
