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6 X 10.5 Long Title.P65 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-85391-0 - The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound Ira B. Nadel Index More information Index Adams, Henry 18, 36, 71 Barry, Iris 46, 88 Adams, John viii, 30, 35, 63, 70, 71, 73, Bartok,´ Bela 111, 112 74, 75, 83, 119, 120 Baxter, Viola 4, 8 Adams, John Quincy 71, 74 Beach, Sylvia 10 aestheticism 21 Beckett, Samuel viii, 18, 85 Alberti, Leon Batista 68 Endgame 18 Aldington, Richard 14, 19, 20, 69, 115 Beerbohm, Max 14, 60 America 3, 5, 7, 8, 12, 14, 15, 17–18, Bennett, Arnold 20, 21, 60 26, 27, 29, 35–6, 56, 57, 63, 66, Old Wives’ Tale 20 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 78, 80, Bernstein, Charles 122–3, 124, 125 102, 103, 106, 109, 110, 115, My Way, Speeches and Poems 122 119, 121 Bion 59 American West viii Bird, William 13, 84 Anderson, Margaret 1, 23, 28 Bishop, Elizabeth 16 Anglo-Saxon 4, 41, 45, 46, 49, 90 BLAST 11, 23–4, 48, 86 Antheil, George 8, 40, 85 Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen 19, 20 anthologist 1 Bollingen Prize 16, 78, 106, 114 anti-Semitism 3, 75, 95, 101, 102, 103, Book News 4 106, 107, 114, 117, 121, Book of the Rhymer’s Club 6 123 Bordeaux 4 Aristotle 87, 95, 100, 102 Bornstein, George 123 Arnaut Daniel 29, 38, 40, 41, 54, Bottome, Phyllis 7 107 Brancusi 13 Arnold, Matthew 2–3, 41, 56 Brandt, Bill 22 Culture and Anarchy 2 British Museum 6, 9, 42, 47, 97, 106 “George Sand” 56 Brooke, Rupert 108 art 37 Browning 6, 10, 24, 31, 32, 39, 41, 44, Ashbery, John 107 47, 55, 90, 109, 116, 118, 122 Atheling, William 8 Dramatis Personae 44 avant-garde 21, 23, 24, 98, 103 Ring and The Book, The 31 Sordello 10, 31, 47, 122 Bacigalupo, Massimo 127 Brunnenburg 2, 27 Barnard, Mary 1, 89 Bunting, Basil 14, 63, 89, 90, 102, 104, Barney, Natalie 13 111, 113, 126 138 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-85391-0 - The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound Ira B. Nadel Index More information Index 139 Burroughs, William S. 83 critic 106 Bynner, Witter 5 Cubists 37, 86 Byron 56 cummings, e. e. 23, 90, 91, 107 Cunard, Nancy 13, 84 Cadiz 5 Cambridge Companion to Ezra D’Annunzio, G. 27 Pound 126 d’Este, Nicolo 65, 69 “Cantico del Sole” (St. Francis) 29 Dada 37, 69 Cantos of Ezra Pound, Some Dadaists 37, 62, 86 Testimonies 111 Dante 4, 9, 24, 27, 31, 33, 36, 38, 40, 41, Canzoni (Leopardi) 27 43, 47, 60, 63, 75, 76, 77, 81, 90, Cardinal, Piere 53 94, 95, 99, 100, 104, 107, 112 Carpenter, Humphrey 126 Divine Comedy, The 4, 24, 63, 64, 75, Casillo, Robert 121, 122 100, 104, 114 Genealogy of Demons, The 121 Inferno 76, 95, 113, 120 Catullus 8, 28, 29, 30–1, 37, 93, 113 Paradiso 47, 81, 113 Cavalcanti 9, 25, 26, 27, 36, 41, 45, 71, Purgatorio 27, 31, 60, 107, 113 76, 90, 101, 107, 117 Dasenbrock, Reed Way 27 Chanson de Roland 4 Davie, Donald 51, 113, 115–18, 125, Chaucer 90 128 Cheltenham Military Academy 2, 28 Ezra Pound, The Poet as Sculptor Chigi, Count 15 115 China 34–5, 37, 38, 39, 44, 49, 63, 65, de Born, Bertran 6, 40, 42, 43, 53, 54, 73, 74, 75, 76, 79, 90, 91 121 Chinese 51, 65, 76, 80, 91, 119 De Forest, Ione 7 Chinese history 74, 119 De Rachewiltz, Mary (Pound) 76, 127 Chinese poetry 38, 41, 51, 52–3 de Vega, Lope 98 “Cino” 27 di Garda, Lago 8 classics 58 Dial 62 Clough, Arthur Hugh 31 Disciplinary Training Centre (Pisa) 63, Coburn, Alvin Langdon 11 75, 76 Cocteau, Jean 13 Divus, Andreas 29, 64, 112, 118 Confucius viii, 15, 16, 32, 33, 34–5, 55, Dolmetsch, Arnold 8 63, 68, 70, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 91, Doolittle, Charles 3 94, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 102, 104, Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.) 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 115, 119, 121, 127, 128 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 35, 39, 47, 80 Conover, Anne 126 End to Torment 3 Olga Rudge and Ezra Pound 126 “Hermes of the Ways” 9, 47 Constitution, US 35–6 Douglas, Major C. H. 12, 91, 92–3, 97, Constructivists 37 101 Contact 23, 92 Credit Power and Democracy 92 Cournos, John 48, 98 Economic Democracy 92 Cravens, Margaret 7–8, 9, 89 dramatic monologue 38, 43 Creeley, Robert 125 Dreiser, Theodore 42 Criterion 23, 113 Genius, The 42 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-85391-0 - The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound Ira B. Nadel Index More information 140 Index economics viii, 85, 86, 92, 97, 107, 114, Ford, Ford Madox (Hueffer) 8, 9, 21, 115, 116, 119, 121 23, 60, 89, 91, 107, 108, 110, editor 1, 106 111 Egoist, The 9, 11, 12, 23, 42 France 4, 13, 55 Egoist Press 12 French 3, 4, 34, 59, 65, 69, 108 El Cid 4 Frobenius, Leo 26, 88, 97 Eliot, T. S. viii, 10, 11–12, 13, 14, Frost, Robert 9–10, 17, 23, 35 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, Froula, Christine 124 35, 36, 37, 51, 55, 58, 75, 85, 90, Fugue 111, 112 103, 106, 107, 110, 111, 122, Futurism 24, 48, 76, 86 129 Ezra Pound, His Metric and Poetry Gallup, Donald 127 107 Ezra Pound, A Bibliography 127 Prufrock, Love Song of J. Alfred 12, Galsworthy, John 21 58, 90 Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri 10, 12, 19, 26, “Ulysses, Order and Myth,” 21 43, 44, 48, 50, 69, 91, 92, 98, Waste Land, The 13, 18, 24, 25, 106, 100, 110 107, 129 Gautier, Theophile´ 22, 58, 59, 60, 117 Emerson–Thoreau Medal 106 Emaux et Cam´ees (Gautier) 58, 60 England 8, 12, 13, 14, 16, 55, 58, 59, Genoa 13, 76, 126 62, 78 Gesell, Silvio 93–4, 97, 101 English Review 23 Gibraltar 5, 78, 102 epic 1, 24, 31–2, 39, 46, 77, 95, 113, Ginsberg, Allen 18, 37, 103, 104, 125, 118, 120 126 Epstein, Jacob 48, 79 Gladstone, William Ewart 60 essayist 1 Graves, Robert 114–15 Europe 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 14, 22, 26, 28, Greece 65 30, 36, 37, 56, 63, 65, 66, 70, 75, Greek 29–30, 34, 35, 59, 64, 65, 81, 87, 103, 110, 119, 124 91, 115 Expressionists 86 Gregory, Lady 10 Ezra Pound Encyclopedia 126 Gunn, Thom 125 Faber 14 Hailey, Idaho 1 Faber Book of Modern Verse 95 Hale, W. G. 109 Fascism 14, 15, 18, 27, 36, 75, 78, 84–5, Hall, Donald 28, 81, 82, 125 94, 95, 103, 106, 114, 119, 121, Hamilton College 4, 5, 15, 18, 28, 31, 122, 123, 125 124 Fenollosa, Ernest 10, 21, 44, 49, 51–3, Hardy, Thomas 13, 37, 78, 91 58, 72, 87, 127 Hebrew 4 Fenollosa, Mrs. Ernest 10 Hemingway 12–13, 14, 17, 36, 69, 90, Fisher, Roy 125 106, 111 Fitzgerald, F. Scott 36 in our time 13 Flaubert, Gustave 59, 61 Moveable Feast, A 106 Fletcher, John Gould 109, 110 Henderson, Alice Corbin 20 Flint, F. S. 19, 20, 108 Heyman, Kitty 5, 6, 8 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-85391-0 - The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound Ira B. Nadel Index More information Index 141 Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound 48 Kenner, Hugh 16, 34, 63, 114, 118–19, Hill, Geoffrey 125 122 history 119, 120, 121, 122 Poetry of Ezra Pound 114 Homer 24, 30–1, 33, 36, 37, 46, 59, 63, Pound Era, The 118 64, 68, 72, 96, 112, 113, 118 Kipling 101 Iliad 28, 62, 68 Odyssey 29, 33, 46, 61, 62, 63–4, 100, Laforge, Jules 53, 57 112 Lane, John 6 Hulme, T. E. 9, 26, 69, 86 LANGUAGE POETS 83, 122, 124, 125 “Romanticism and Classicism” 26, Latin 3, 4, 28, 29–30, 32, 33, 34, 39, 43, 86 57, 58, 63, 64, 65, 71, 81, 91, 98, Hunt, Violet 7 108, 109, 113, 115, 118, 120 Laughlin, James 15, 18, 59, 82, 89, 90, Iambic pentameter 1 102, 111, 125, 127 ideogram 10, 51, 72, 80, 81, 83, 87, 96, Lawrence, D. H. 7, 21, 42 98, 100, 102, 105, 124 Rainbow, The 42 Imagism viii, 9, 11, 20, 22, 24–5, 38, Lawrence, T. E. 115 39, 42, 47, 51, 58, 67, 82, 86, 87, Legge, James 34 90, 107, 112, 118, 129 Leopardi, Giacomo 27 Impressionism 48 Levertov, Denise 125 Indiana 2, 4 Lewis, Wyndham 11, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, Italian 4, 76, 108 25, 48, 55, 69, 85, 89, 98, 103, Italy viii, 2, 3, 8, 13–14, 15, 16, 27–8, 110, 121, 128 36, 37, 41, 43, 65, 76, 78, 84, 92, Blasting and Bombardiering 25 93, 98, 101, 106, 119 Timon 48 Li Po 25, 45, 49 James, Henry 2, 21, 22, 36, 53, 56, literary criticism 106 58–9 little magazines 23 Japan Times 15 Little Review 12, 23, 56 Jarrell, Randall 125 Longenbach, James 121–2 Javits, Jacob 17 Stone Cottage 121 Jefferson, Thomas viii, 21, 32, 35, London viii, 2, 3, 4, 5–6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 70–1, 74, 119, 120 14, 19, 21, 22, 39, 40, 44, 58, 59, Jews 15, 101, 102, 103, 121, 123 60, 84, 89, 128 Johnson, Samuel 100 London Polytechnic Institute 7 Joyce viii, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 18, 19, 21, 23, Lowell, Amy 9, 14 24, 25, 37, 62, 63, 89, 98, 104, Lowell, Robert 125 106, 107, 110, 111, 122, 124 Loy, Mina 86, 90 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, luminous detail 11 A 11, 12, 107 lyric 1, 77 Ulysses 10, 12, 24, 25, 62, 106, 129 juxtaposition 105 Mac Low, Jackson 124, 125 Words nd Ends from Ez 124 Kandinsky 11, 25 Malatesta, Sigismondo 13, 27, 32, 55, Keats, John 44 63, 65, 68, 74, 78, 84 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-85391-0 - The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound Ira B.
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