1st Edition

A Preface to Ezra Pound

By Peter Wilson Copyright 1997
268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

Provides an introduction to the life and works of Ezra Pound, a major modernist poet, theorist and literary critic. Throughout his life Pound was regarded by many to be a contentious and controversial figure, and since his death in 1972, theoretical, literary, political and biographical comentators have done much to perpetuate this view. Peter Wilson's survey, however, presents a balanced view of... Read more
Introduction  Part One. The Writer and his setting  Chronological table  1. Biographical background  2. Literary, Cultural and Politcal background  Part Two. 1.  Critical Survey.  2.  Personae  3.  Imagism in Practice  4.  Cathay  5.  The Language of the Cantos  6.  Aspects of the Cantos  7.  Conclusion   Part Three  1.  Reference Section. 2.  Brief Biographies  3.  Gazetteer  4.  Bibliography  5.  Further Reading

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Wilson, Peter