Sophocles Elektra: a Version By Ezra Pound and Rudd Fleming

Reid, Richard (Edited & Annotated By)

Published by Faber and Faber, London, 1990

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As new, first English edition thus, gray hardcover boards w silver font on spine. xxiii + 103 pps. Dust jacket unclipped and in perfect condition. Now under mylar wraps.GIFT QUALITY. This critical edition of Ezra Pound's Elektra marks the most significant appearance in twenty years of a "new" work by the controversial poet. Composed in the early months of 1949, while Pound was under indictment for treason and hospitalized by court order in Washington, D.C., this hitherto unpublished version of Sophocles' play documents a critical stage in the poet's writing career: with his subsequent rendition of Sophocles' Trachiniae and his ongoing translations from the Chinese classics, it signaled his return to sustained composition and his eventual decision to resume his life work, the Cantos. The success of Carey Perloff's Classic Stage Company debut of Pound's play in 1987 has already demonstrated the interest of the theatrical community in the work, and this presentation of the text, with critical apparatus, is a major event in Pound studies. The edition serves as a kind of practical workshop in translation, particularly in its exposition of Pound's discussions with his collaborator, Rudd Fleming.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sophocles Elektra: a Version By Ezra Pound and Rudd Fleming
• Publisher: Faber and Faber, London
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
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