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A Walking Tour in Southern France - Ezra Pound Among the Troubadours (Hardcover)
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A Walking Tour in Southern France - Ezra Pound Among the Troubadours (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 4 380
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Rummaging through his papers in 1958, Ezra Pound came across a
cache of notebooks dating back to the summer of 1912, when as a
young man he had walked the troubadour landscape of southern
France. Pound had been fascinated with the poetry of medieval
Provence since his college days. His experiments with the complex
lyric forms of Arnaut Daniel, Bertran de Born, and others were
included in his earliest books of poems; his scholarly pursuits in
the field found their way into The Spirit of Romance (1910); and
the troubadour mystique was to become a resonant motif of the
Cantos. In the course of transcribing and emending the text of
"Walking Tour 1912", editor Richard Sieburth retraced Pound's
footsteps along the roads to the troubadour castles. "What this
peripatetic editing process...revealed", he writes, "was a
remarkably readable account of a journey in search of the vanished
voices of Provence that at the same time chronicled Pound's gradual
discovery of himself as a modernist poet...".
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