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6 X 10.5 Long Title.P65 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-63069-6 - The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound Ira B. Nadel Frontmatter More information The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound Ezra Pound is one of the most visible and influential poets of the twentieth century. He is also one of the most complex, his poetry containing historical and mythical allusions, experiments of form and style and often controversial political views. Yet Pound’s life and work continue to fascinate. This Introduction is designed to help students reading Pound for the first time. Pound scholar Ira B. Nadel provides a guide to the rich webs of allusion and stylistic borrowings and innovations in Pound’s writing. He offers a clear overview of Pound’s life, works, contexts and reception history and of his multidimensional career as a poet, translator, critic, editor, anthologist and impresario, a career that placed him at the heart of literary modernism. This invaluable and accessible introduction explains the huge contribution Pound made to the development of modernism in the early twentieth century. irab.nadelis Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound (1999). © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-63069-6 - The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound Ira B. Nadel Frontmatter More information Cambridge Introductions to Literature This series is designed to introduce students to key topics and authors. Accessible and lively, these introductions will also appeal to readers who want to broaden their understanding of the books and authors they enjoy. r Ideal for students, teachers, and lecturers r Concise, yet packed with essential information r Key suggestions for further reading Titles in this series: Eric Bulson The Cambridge Introduction to James Joyce John Xiros Cooper The Cambridge Introduction to T. S. Eliot Kirk Curnutt The Cambridge Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald Janette Dillon The Cambridge Introduction to Early English Theatre Janette Dillon The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare’s Tragedies Jane Goldman The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf KevinJ.Hayes The Cambridge Introduction to Herman Melville David Holdeman The Cambridge Introduction to W. B. Yeats M. Jimmie Killingsworth The Cambridge Introduction to Walt Whitman Ronan McDonald The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Beckett Wendy Martin The Cambridge Introduction to Emily Dickinson Peter Messent The Cambridge Introduction to Mark Twain John Peters The Cambridge Introduction to Joseph Conrad Sarah Robbins The Cambridge Introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe Martin Scofield The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story Emma Smith The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare Peter Thomson The Cambridge Introduction to English Theatre, 1660–1900 Janet Todd The Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen Jennifer Wallace The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-63069-6 - The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound Ira B. Nadel Frontmatter More information The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound IRA B. NADEL © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-63069-6 - The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound Ira B. Nadel Frontmatter More information cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao˜ Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521630696 C Ira B. Nadel 2007 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2007 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library ISBN 978-0-521-85391-0 hardback ISBN 978-0-521-63069-6 paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-63069-6 - The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound Ira B. Nadel Frontmatter More information Contents Preface page vii Note on the text viii List of abbreviations ix Chapter 1 Life 1 Chapter 2 Context 19 Chapter 3 Works 38 Poetry to 1920 38 The Cantos 63 Prose 85 Chapter 4 Critical reception 106 Notes 130 Guide to further reading 134 Index 138 v © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-63069-6 - The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound Ira B. Nadel Frontmatter More information Preface “My eyes are geared for the horizon,” Ezra Pound wrote in 1938 (Guide to Kulchur 55). It’s a telling remark suggesting the breadth and vision of his work, whether in poetry or prose. He thought big, although he argued for concrete details.Hepromotedlargeideasbutworkedinpieces:hislongopus,TheCantos, spanning some fifty-two years of construction. And he always urged, cajoled and pushed – some would say dumped – his ideas on the public. But he never said “enough” or gave up even when challenged by editors, fellow writers, or governments. This introduction to his life and work presents the many facets of Pound, who possessed a kind of binocular vision, able to look out to the horizon at the same time that he saw what was immediately in front of him. He knew that “language is made out of concrete things” but that a universal view was necessary. In one sense his program was simple – “if a man write six good lines he is immortal – isn’t that worth trying for?” – but in another it was complex as he sought to become “fra i maestri di color che sanno,” a phrase he expands as “master of those that cut apart, dissect and divide. Competent precursor of the card-index” (SL 49, 12; Guide to Kulchur 343). Many have assisted with the “card indexes” of this project and I thank them, beginning with Ray Ryan, a patient, impatient, encouraging and, when neces- sary, an admonitory editor; Anne MacKenzie, support and guide, who knows the difference between clarity and confusion; Dara and Ryan, my children, who constantly encouraged me not only to “make it new,” but make it short. And finally, those myriad Poundians who have charted the waters before me so that I may safely navigate between the often foggy shores. vii © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-63069-6 - The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound Ira B. Nadel Frontmatter More information Note on the text The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound provides a systematic approach to understanding the life, context, work and reception of this major modernist. Following a survey of Pound’s life which took him from the American West to Philadelphia, Venice, London, Paris and Rapallo, and introduced him to figures like Yeats, Joyce and T. S. Eliot, is a section on “Context.” This explores how Pound’s efforts to “MAKE IT NEW” coincided with original work in music, art and literature occurring throughout Europe and North America, from 1909/10, – when Pound’s Personae, Stravinsky’s Firebird ballet and Henri Matisse’s The Dance all appeared – to 1969, when Pound published the final volume of The Cantos, Samuel Beckett won the Nobel Prize for Literature and Claes Oldenburg completed his pop-art sculpture, Lipstick (Ascending).The volume then traces the evolution of Pound’s writing from his earliest attempts to the last Cantos. Prose, as well as poetry and translations, comprise this sec- tion which also shows how his aesthetic principles and involvement with such movements as Imagism and Vorticism relate to his writing. Pound’s music and art criticism are also discussed. Attention to important individual texts like “Sestina Altaforte,” “Homage to Sextus Propertius” and Hugh Selwyn Mauber- ley precede a discussion of Pound’s life-time work, The Cantos.Brokendown into units Pound himself designated – the “Malatesta Cantos,” the “Chinese Cantos,” the “Jefferson–Adam Cantos,” “The Pisan Cantos” – is an analysis of the multiple structure, themes and language of The Cantos. Pound’s contested politics and economics are also addressed, noting the influences and detours they presented to his literary achievement. The contro- versial radio broadcasts he made between 1941 and 1943 from Fascist Italy are also discussed, as well as his search for heroes, which drew him to Confucius, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Mussolini. The critical reception of Pound and his wavering reputation conclude the book with an assessment of his con- tribution to, and redefinition of, modernism. A guide to further reading assists the student in pursuing the life and work of Pound. References to The Cantos, Pound’s major work, are to Canto number and page number in the thirteenth printing by New Directions in 1995. The citation for “MAKE IT NEW” appears as LIII/265. viii © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-63069-6 - The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound Ira B. Nadel Frontmatter More information Abbreviations ABCR Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading. [1934.] New York: New Directions, 1960. AV W. B. Yeats, A Vision. New York: Macmillan, 1961. CAD Ezra Pound, Classic Anthology as Defined by Confucius. [1954.] London: Faber and Faber, 1974. CC Confucius to Cummings, An Anthology of Poetry. Ed. Ezra Pound and Marcella Spann. New York: New Directions, 1964. CCEP The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound.Ed.IraB.Nadel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. CEP Ezra Pound, Collected Early Poems of Ezra Pound. Ed. Michael John King. New York: New Directions, 1976. CRH Ezra Pound, The Critical Heritage.
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