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Ezra Pound, Ezra Pound; Poems and Translations, ed. Richard Sieburth (Library of America; New York, 2003) [text-editions selected rather than re-edited; very brief notes; this edition reviewed by Marjorie Perloff, 'Pound Ascendant', Boston Review, April/May 2004]. Ezra Pound, Collected Early Poems, ed. M.J. King (London, 1977). Ezra Pound, Homage to Sextus Propertius [written in 1917, first published entire in Quia Pauper Amavi (London, October 1919); reprinted in the edition of Personae listed below; prefer that edition to the version of Homage included in Collected Shorter Poems (London, 1952), where the text is not fully reliable; or use Sieburth's Library of America text]. Ezra Pound, Personae; The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound, ed. Lea Baechler and A. Walton Litz (New York, c.1990) [prefer this edition where possible to the Collected Shorter Poems, which has never been in the hands of a named editor and which contains many mistakes; or again use Sieburth's Library of America text]. Ezra Pound, of Ezra Pound (4th collected ed., London, 1987) [current reprint is 1994]. Ezra Pound, Variorum Edition of 'Three Cantos'; A Prototype, ed. Richard Taylor (Bayreuth, 1991). Ezra Pound, The Pisan Cantos, ed Richard Sieburth (New York, 2003). Richard Taylor, 'Towards a Textual Biography of The Cantos', in Willison (Ian) et al. (eds), Modernist Writers and the Marketplace (Basingstoke, 1996), pp. 223-57; and see his 'The Texts of The Cantos' in Ira B. Nadel (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound (Cambridge, 1999), pp. 161- 87.

Ezra Pound, The Spirit of Romance (London, 1910). Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading (London, 1934). Ezra Pound, Gaudier Brzeska; A Memoir (London, 1916; reprinted, Hessle, Yorkshire, 1960). Ernest Fenollosa, from The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry, ed. Ezra Pound (City Lights reprint, San Francisco, [1964]). Ezra Pound, Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, ed. T.S. Eliot (London, 1954). Ezra Pound, Selected Letters, ed. D.D. Paige (London, 1950). The Letters of Ezra Pound and , ed. Timothy Materer (London, 1985). Ezra Pound and , Pound/Williams: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, ed. Hugh Witemeyer (New 2 York, 1996). Ezra Pound, Pound/Zukofsky; Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zu- kofsky, ed. Barry Ahearn (New York, 1987).

Ezra Pound, The Translations of Ezra Pound, with intro. by (London, 1953) [not really edited at all, uncritical reprint; all these texts also included in Sieburth]. [T.S. Eliot], Ezra Pound, his Metric and Poetry, originally published anonymously (New York, 12 November 1917); reprinted in To Criticize the Critic (London, 1965); and see Pound (Ezra), 'T.S. Eliot' (1917), review of Prufrock and Other Observations (London, 1917), in The Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, ed. T.S. Eliot (London, 1954), pp. 418- 22, and Pound (Ezra), 'Mr Eliot's Solid Merit' (1934), in his Polite Essays (London, 1937), pp. 98-105; and further, Robert Langbaum, 'Pound and Eliot' in George Bornstein (ed.), Ezra Pound Among the Poets (Chicago, 1985). T.S. Eliot, ; a Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Draft Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound, ed. Valerie Eliot (London, 1971); and see Stillinger (Jack), 'Pound's Waste Land', in his Multiple Authorship and the Myth of Solitary Genius (New York, 1991). Anderson (David) (ed.), Pound's Cavalcanti; An Edition of the Translations, Notes, and Essays (Princeton, 1983); see also Sieburth (Richard), 'Channeling Guido: Ezra Pound's Cavalcanti Translations', in Ardizzone (Maria Luisa) (ed.), Guido Cavalcanti tra i Suoi Lettori (Fiesole, c.2003), and his 'EP/LZ: Corresponding Cavalcantis' (http:// writing/upenn.edu/epc/authors/Zukofsky/100/Sieburth_Pound_Zuk.d oc). Zinnes (Harriet) (ed.), Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts (New York, 1980). Yeats (W.B.) (ed.), Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 1892-1935 (Oxford, 1936) [the Preface to this landmark anthology is an important document]; and see Longley (Edna), '"Why Should Men's Heads Ache?"; Yeats and American Modernism', in Clark (Steve) and Ford (Mark) (eds), Something We Have That They Don't; British & American Poetic Relations Since 1925 (Iowa City, 2004), pp. 30-52.

Carpenter (Humphrey), A Serious Character; The Life of Ezra Pound (London, 1988).

Ackroyd (Peter), Ezra Pound and his World (London, 1980).

Homberger (E.) (ed.), Ezra Pound; The Critical Heritage (1972; reprinted, London, 1997). Froula (Christine), A Guide to Ezra Pound's 'Selected Poems' ([New York], 3 1983). Ruthven (K.K.), A Guide to Ezra Pound's 'Personae' (1926) (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1969). Kearns (George), Guide to Ezra Pound's 'Selected Cantos' (New Brunswick, N.J., and Folkstone, 1980). John (Roland), A Beginner's Guide to 'The Cantos' of Ezra Pound (Salzburg, 1995). Cookson (William), A Guide to the 'Cantos' of Ezra Pound (rev. 2nd ed., London, 2001). Terrell (C.F.), A Companion to the Cantos of Ezra Pound (2 vols, Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1980-4). Dilligan (Robert J.) (comp.), A Concordance to Ezra Pound's Cantos (New York, 1981).

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Bornstein (George) (ed.), Ezra Pound Among the Poets (Chicago, 1985); see also Aji (Hélène), 'Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams's Romantic Dilemmas: From Obliteration to Remanence', Cercles, 12 (2005), 50-63 [on Whitman, and Browming]. Brooker (Peter), 'The Lesson of Ezra Pound: An Essay in Poetry, Literary Ideology and Politics', in I.A. Bell (ed.), Ezra Pound: Tactics for Reading (London, 1982). Brooke-Rose (Christine), A ZBC of Ezra Pound (London, 1971). Bush (Ronald), The Genesis of Ezra Pound's Cantos (Princeton, 1976). 4 Bush (Ronald) (ed.), T.S. Eliot; The Modernist in History (Cambridge, 1991). Bush (Ronald), 'Modernism, Fascism, and the Composition of Ezra Pound's Pisan Cantos', in Modernism/Modernity, 2 (1995), 69-87. Bush (Ronald), 'Remaking Canto 74', Paideuma, 32 (2003), 157-186. Casillo (Robert), The Genealogy of Demons; Anti-Semitism, Fascism, and the Myths of Ezra Pound (Evanston, Ill., 1988). Chace (William), The Political Identities of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot (Stanford, Cal., 1973). Childs (J.S.), Modernist Form: Pound's Style in the Early Cantos (Cranbury, N.J., c.1986). Creeley (Robert), 'A Note on Ezra Pound' (1965)', in The Collected Essays of Robert Creeley (Berkeley, Cal., c.1989), pp. 25-7. Davie (Donald), Ezra Pound; Poet as Sculptor (New York, 1964). Davie (Donald), 'Pound and Eliot: A Distinction' (1970), in his The Poet in the Imaginary Museum; Essays of Two Decades, ed. Barry Alpert (Man- chester, 1977), 191-207, 294. Davie (Donald), Pound ([London], 1975). Davis (Kay), Fugue and Fresco; Structures in Pound's Cantos (Orono, Maine, 1984). DuPlessis (Rachel Blau), 'Oppen and Pound', Paideuma, 10 (1981), 59-83. DuPlessis (Rachel Blau) and Quartermain (Peter) (eds), The Objectivist Nexus; Essays in Cultural Poetics (Tuscaloosa, Ala., c.1999). Eastman (Barbara), Ezra Pound's Cantos: The Story of the Text, 1948-1975 (Orono, Maine, 1979). Eliot (T.S.), 'Ulysses, Order, and Myth', review of , Ulysses, in The Dial, LXXV.5 (Nov. 1923), reprinted in Frank Kermode (ed.), Selected Prose of T.S. Eliot (London, 1975), pp. 175-8. Ellmann (Maud), The Poetics of Impersonality; T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound (Brighton, 1987). Furia (Philip), Pound's Cantos Declassified (University Park, Penn, 1984). Gelpi (Albert), A Coherent Splendor; The American Poetic Renaissance, 1910- 1950 (Cambridge, 1987), Chap. 4. Gibson (Mary Ellis), Epic Reinvented; Ezra Pound and the Victorians (Ithaca, N.Y., 1995). Gould (Warwick), 'The Unknown Masterpiece: Yeats and the Design of the Cantos', in Gibson (Andrew) (ed.), Pound in Multiple Perspective; A Collection of Critical Essays (London, 1993), pp. 40-92. Grieve (Thomas F.), Ezra Pound's Early Poetry and Poetics (Columbia, Mo., c.1997). Hallberg (Robert von), 'Olson's Relationship to Pound and Williams', Contemp. Lit., 15 (1974), 15-48. 5 Hamilton (Scott), Ezra Pound and the Symbolist Inheritance (Princeton, 1992). Hermans (Theo), The Structure of Modernist Poetry (London, 1982). Hewitt (Andrew), Fascist Modernism; Aesthetics, Politics, and the Avant-Garde (Stanford, Cal., 1993). Hooley (Daniel M.), The Classics in Paraphrase; Ezra Pound and Modern Translators of Latin Poetry (Cranbury, N.J., 1988). Jackson (T.H.), The Early Poetry of Ezra Pound (Cambridge, Mass., 1968). Kayman (Martin A.), The Modernism of Ezra Pound (London, 1986). Kenner (Hugh), (Berkeley, Cal., 1971). Kodama (Sanehide), American Poetry and Japanese Culture (Hamden, Conn., 1984). Kuberski (Philip), 'Ego, Scriptor: Pound's Odyssean Writing', Paideuma, 14 (1985). Leavis (F.R.), New Bearings in English Poetry (London, 1932), esp. Chap. IV: 'Ezra Pound'. Lentricchia (Frank), Modernist Quartet (Cambridge 1994). Levenson (Michael H.), A Genealogy of Modernism; A Study of English Literary Doctrine, 1908-22 (Cambridge, 1984). Levin (Harry), Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and the European Horizon (Oxford, 1975). Longenbach (James), Modernist Poetics of History; Pound, Eliot, and the Sense of the Past (Princeton, 1987). Longenbach (James), Stone Cottage; Pound, Yeats, and Modernism (New York, 1988). Makin (Peter), Provence and Pound (Berkeley, Cal., 1978). Makin (Peter), Pound's Cantos (London, 1985). Marks (Emerson R.), Taming the Chaos; English Poetic Diction Theory since the Renaissance (Detroit, Mich., 1998), Chap. 13: 'Aspects of Modernism' (pp. 265-87). Marsh (Alec), Money and Modernity; Pound, Williams, and the Spirit of Jefferson (Tuscaloosa, Ala., 1998). McGann (Jerome J.), Social Values and Poetic Acts; The Historical Judgement of Literary Work (Cambridge, Mass., 1988). McGann (Jerome J.), Towards a Literature of Knowledge (Oxford, 1989), Chap. 4: 'The Cantos of Ezra Pound, the Truth in Contradiction'. Middleton (Christopher), 'Ideas about Voice in Poetry', in his The Pursuit of the Kingfisher; Essays (Manchester, 1983). Moody (A. David), 'Directio Voluntatis: Pound's Economics in the Economy of The Cantos', Paideuma, 32 (2003), 187-203. Morrison (Paul), The Poetics of Fascism; Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Paul de Man (Oxford, 1996). 6 Nänny (Max) and Fischer (Olga) (eds), Form Miming Meaning; Iconicity in Language and Literature (Amsterdam, 1999). Nicholls (Peter), Ezra Pound: Politics, Economics and Writing; A Study of 'The Cantos' (London, 1984). North (Michael), The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot and Pound (Cambridge, 1991). North (Michael), Reading 1922; A Return to the Scene of the Modern (New York, 1999). Oderman (Kevin), Ezra Pound and the Erotic Medium (Durham, N.C., 1986). Oliphant (Dave) and Zigal (Thomas) (eds), WCW & Others; Essays on William Carlos Williams and his Association with Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle, Marcel Duchamp, Marianne Moore, Emanuel Romano, Wallace Stevens and Louis Zukofsky (Austin, Tex., c.1985). Perloff (Marjorie), Poetic License: Essays on Modernist and Postmodernist Lyric (Evanston, Ill., 1990), Chap. 6: 'The Contemporary of our Grandchildren: Ezra Pound and the Question of Influence' (pp. 119-44). Perloff (Marjorie), The Dance of the Intellect; Studies in the Poetry of the Pound Tradition (Evanston, Ill., 1996). Qian (Zhaoming), Orientalism and Modernism; The Legacy of China in Pound and Williams (Durham, N.C., 1995). Qian (Zhaoming) (ed.), Ezra Pound and China (Ann Arbor, 2003). Rabaté (J.-M.), Language, Sexuality and Ideology in Ezra Pound's 'Cantos' (Houndmills, 1986). Rainey (Lawrence S.), Ezra Pound and the Monument of Culture; Text, History, and the Malatesta Cantos (Chicago and London, 1991). Rainey (Lawrence S.) (ed.), A Poem Containing History; Textual Studies in 'The Cantos' (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1997). Robinson (Fred), 'Ezra Pound and the Old English Translational Tradition' and '"The Might of the North:" Pound's Anglo-Saxon Studies and The Seafarer', in his The Tomb of Beowulf and Other Essays on Old English (Oxford, 1993). Rosenthal (M.L.), Sailing into the Unknown; Yeats, Pound, and Eliot (New York, 1978). Rudd (Niall), The Classical Tradition in Operation (Toronto, c.1994), Chap. 5: 'Pound and Propertius: Two Former Moderns' (pp. 117-50), and Appendix: 'Professor Hale and Homage as a Document of Cultural Transition' (pp. 151-8). Ruthven (K.K.), Ezra Pound as Literary Critic (London, 1990). Sherry (Vincent), Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Radical Modernism (New York, 1993). Sherry (Vincent), The Great War and the Language of Modernism (Oxford, 2003). 7 Schneidau (Herbert N.), Ezra Pound; The Image and the Real (Baton Rouge, 1969). 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J.H. Prynne, July 2006

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