For A New Paideuma (Horizon, January 1938)

Ezra Pound; Louis MacNiece; T. S. Eliot, editor

Published by Faber and Faber, 1938

About this Item

A primarily political piece from EP on the benefits of a literary 'sindicato', a guild, who would be responsible for clarity in terms, thus a general ordering and a tempering or directing of the paideuma ("the complex of ideas which is in a given time germinal, reaching into the next epoch, but conditioning actively all the thought and action of its own time"). Pound is equally concerned in this essay with the loss of greek influence (absorbed and washed out by the renaissance), the potential for education through chinese literature, and the importance of reading literature in multiple original languages (or at least the awareness of what the reader who reads only one language, translation or not, lacks). Somewhat fascist in its 12 men at a table attitude, but aware of diversity. Followed by On Those Islands; A Poem for Hector MacIver by Louis MacNiece and Three Poems by Michael Roberts. A very good or better copy, without foxing or damp. Oversized paper wraps worn at edges with folds; ex college library stamp to front; spine in lovely condition though with a couple of very small pencil inscriptions. Seller Inventory # ABE-1725878954395

Bibliographic Details

Title: For A New Paideuma (Horizon, January 1938)

Publisher: Faber and Faber

Publication Date: 1938

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good