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Ezra Pound: Poet - Volume II: The Epic Years (Hardcover)
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Ezra Pound: Poet - Volume II: The Epic Years (Hardcover)
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This second volume of A. David Moody's full-scale portrait,
covering Ezra Pound's middle years, weaves together into a single
highly readable and challenging narrative, in a way that has not
been done before, the illuminating story of his life, his
achievement as a poet and a composer, and his one-man crusade for
economic justice. There is new insight into his complicated
personal relationships. There are detailed accounts of the
composition of his two operas and of his original contribution to
the theory of harmony. A canto by canto and decad by decad
elucidation of the form and meaning of the first seventy-one cantos
of his epic reveals their hitherto unperceived musical structures
and their overall design. The thinking behind his support for
Mussolini's economic programme during the Great Depression of the
1930s is brought to light, and shown to be not "fascist" but
essentially true to the principles of the American Revolution, and,
behind that, to Confucian ideas of responsible government. At the
same time it is made clear that he saw only what he wanted to see
in Mussolini's Fascism, and later in Hitler's Nazism, and was blind
to their darker policies. And it is clear that he went most
seriously wrong in deploying, as a weapon in his war on the
injustice of the capitalist financial system, the anti-Semitism
endemic in Europe and America and at that time turning murderous in
Nazi Germany. Pound is revealed as a great poet and a flawed
idealist caught up in the turmoil of his darkening time and
struggling, sometimes blindly and in error and self-contradiction,
to be a force for enlightenment. A third volume will carry on the
narrative of his life and works from 1939 to his death in 1972.
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