Selected poems, 1908-1959 - Hardcover

Ezra Pound

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9780571109067: Selected poems, 1908-1959
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0571109063 ISBN 13: 9780571109067
Publisher: Faber and Faber, 1975

Synopsis

This selection provides an excellent introduction to Ezra Pound's poetry for the general reader, and for the student of contemporary literature. It takes the place of the pioneer edition edited by T.S. Eliot which was published in 1928.A representative group of early shorter poems is included; Hugh Selwyn Mauberley , Cathay and Homage to Sextus Propertius are printed complete; and there is a selection from the Cantos up to and including Drafts & Fragments (1969).Illustration by Wyndham Lewis

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About the Author

Ezra Pound was born in 1885 in Hailey, Idaho. He came to Europe in 1898 and settled in London, where he was to meet Yeats, Eliot, Ford, Hulme and Gaudier-Brzeska. In 1920 he moved to Paris, and later to Rapallo. His acquaintances by now included Joyce, Hemingway, Brancusi, Picabia, Cocteau, Antheil and C. H. Douglas. During the Second World War he broadcast over Rome Radio - for which, eventually, he was tried for treason in Washington. He was committed to a hospital for the insane, where he was held for thirteen years. He was released in 1958 and returned to Italy, dying in Venice in 1972. His main publications include The Cantos (I-CXVII), Collected Shorter Poems, Translations, The Confucian Odes, Literary Essays, Guide to Kulchur, Selected Prose and ABC of Reading.

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Publisher
Faber and Faber
Publication date
1975
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0571109063
ISBN 13 
9780571109067
Binding
Hardcover
Rating
  • 3.89 out of 5 stars
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