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The Cantos of Ezra Pound is one of the great landmarks in
twentieth-century poetry. This Fourth Collected edition of 1987
includes two previously uncollected cantos, and some passages from
other cantos, omitted from earlier printings, restored to the text.
The additional cantos, numbered LXXII and LXXIII, were written by
Ezra Pound in Italian, during the collapse of Italy at the end of
the war.. They belong in the sequence between the John Adams and
the Pisan cantos.
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Cathay (Hardcover)
Ezra Pound, Ernest Francisco Fenollosa, Po Li
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R683
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Cat Poems (Paperback)
Elizabeth Bishop, Stevie Smith, Ezra Pound, Charles Baudelaire, William Carlos Williams, …
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You Know How a Cat
will bring a mouse it has
caught and lay it at your
feet so each morning I
bring you a poem that
I've written when I woke
up in the night as my tribute
to your beauty &
a promise of my love.
-James Laughlin
Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affection, mystery, and innumerable metaphors. Cats raise a mirror up to their beholders; cats endlessly captivate and hypnotise, frustrate and delight. To poets, in particular, these enigmatic creatures are the most delightful and beguiling of muses, as they purr, prowl, hunt, play, meow, and nap, often oblivious to their so-called masters. Cat Poems offers a litter of odes to our beloved felines by some of the greatest poets of all time.
Opposing the Money Lenders - The Struggle to Abolish
Interest Slavery is a collection of writings from some of
the most determined fighters against usury and the Central Banking
system during the 20th Century. Those included are Arthur Nelson
Field, John A. Lee, John Hargrave, Ezra Pound, Father Charles
Coughlin, and Gottfried Feder, who fought and inspired mass
movements that struggled to liberate their nations from the forces
of what one - Gottfried Feder - aptly called "Mammonism."
The subject of the supply of our money, and who controls it, is
the greatest social issue that confronts humanity today. It is the
"Hidden Hand" behind history. Without dealing with the problems of
banking and usury, without a people having control over its own
means of credit and exchange, there can be no genuine nationhood,
and no real freedom, whether personal or national.
Almost every individual, family, nation, indeed most of the world,
is today in thrall to the money lenders. Despite advances in
mechanisation and technology, people are working longer hours, and
are more enslaved to the economic treadmill than were their
ancestors in Medieval times. At the same time, despite mass
education, people today understand the economic and financial
system far less than their parents and grandparents. Opposing the
Money Lenders examines our parasitic financial system and the means
by which it might be replaced.
Poetic visionary Ezra Pound catalyzed American literature's
modernist revolution. From the swirling center of poetic change he
excited the powerful energies of Eliot, Joyce, and William Carlos
Williams and championed the Imagism and Vorticism movements. This
volume, the most comprehensive collection of his poetry and
translations ever assembled, gathers all his verse except "The
Cantos." In addition to the famous poems that transformed modern
literature, it features dozens of rare and out-of-print pieces,
such as the handmade first collection "Hilda's Book" (1905-1907),
late translations of Horace, rare sheet music translations, and
works from a 1917 "lost" manuscript.
Pound's influential "Cathay" (1915), "Lustra" (1917), and "Hugh
Selwyn Mauberley" (1920)-as surely as his later masterly Confucian
odes and Sophoclean dramas-followed the poet's own directive to
"make it new," opening fresh formal pathways into ancient
traditions. Through these works and others representing more than
30 different volumes and dozens of pieces that Pound never
collected, "Poems and Translations" reveals the breadth of his
daring invention and resonant music: lyrics echoing the Troubadors
and Browning, chiseled 1920s free verse, and dazzling translations
that led Eliot to call Pound "the inventor of Chinese poetry for
our time."
An extensive chronology offers guidance to Pound's tumultuous
life. Detailed endnotes of unprecedented range and depth clarify
Pound's fascinatingly recondite allusions.
Even before establishing New Directions, James Laughlin had
encountered and studied with one of the greatest poets of this
century: Ezra Pound. These selected letters capture the spirit of
their growing relationship from pupil-teacher to publisher-author.
In his idiosyncratic prose, Pound's correspondence summons up both
the man as he was actually known and the literary figure.
Literature, music, friends, and politics fill his pages. And even
when Laughlin's and Pound's politics totally diverged during World
War II, Pound's respect for Laughlin remained intact. Also of great
interest are the years spent by Pound at St. Elizabeths and his
observations while there. These letters give insight into the state
of Pound's mind and the supposition of his insanity. Ezra Pound and
James Laughlin: Selected Letters is a modernist source book -
essential reading for anyone interested in tracing the real
development of twentieth-century literature.
If the invention of literary modernism is usually attributed to
Joyce, Eliot and Pound, it was Pound's personality and position in
the artistic world that enabled the experiment to transform itself
into an international movement. In 1926 Pound brought together the
body of his shorter poems into a definitive collection which would
illustrate the hallmarks of the new style. This collection, where
Pound presented himself in a variety of characters or 'masks', was
called Personae. In 1926, Personae's publication gave solidity to a
movement; today the work stands as one of the classic texts of the
twentieth century.
The verse and criticism which he produced during the early years of
the twentieth century very largely determined the directions of
creative writing in our time; virtually every major poet in England
and America today has acknowledged his help or influence. Pound's
lyric genius, his superb technique, and his fresh insight into
literary problems make him one of the small company of men who
through the centuries have kept poetry alive one of the great
innovators. This book offers a compact yet representative selection
of Ezra Pound's poems and translations. The span covered is Pound's
entire writing career, from his early lyrics and the translations
of Provencal songs to his English version of Sophocles' Trachiniae.
Included are parts of his best known works the Chinese
translations, the sequence called Hugh Selwyn Mauberly, the Homage
to Sextus Propertius. The Cantos, Pound's major epic, are presented
in generous selections, chosen to emphasize the main themes of the
whole poem."
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