Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51507-8 - Ezra Pound in Context Edited by Ira B. Nadel Frontmatter More information EZRA POUND IN CONTEXT Long at the center of the modernist project, from editing Eliot’s The Waste Land to publishing Joyce, Pound has also been a provocateur and instigator of new movements, while initiating a new poetics. This is the first volume to summarize and analyze the multiple contexts of Pound’s work, underlining the magnitude of his contribution and drawing on new archival, textual, and theoretical studies. Pound’s political and economic ideas also receive attention. With its concen- tration on the contexts of history, sociology, aesthetics, and politics, the volume will provide a portrait of Pound’s unusually international reach: an American-born, modern poet absorbing the cultures of Eng- land, France, Italy, and China. These essays situate Pound in the social and material realities of his time and will be invaluable for students and scholars of Pound and modernism. ira b. nadel is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound (2007) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound (1999). © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51507-8 - Ezra Pound in Context Edited by Ira B. Nadel Frontmatter More information EZRA POUND IN CONTEXT edited by IRA B. NADEL University of British Columbia © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51507-8 - Ezra Pound in Context Edited by Ira B. Nadel Frontmatter More information cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao˜ Paulo, Delhi, Dubai, Tokyo, Mexico City Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb28ru,UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521515078 c Cambridge University Press 2010 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 2010 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Ezra Pound in context / edited by Ira B. Nadel. p. cm. Includes index. isbn 978-0-521-51507-8 (hardback) 1.Pound,Ezra,1885–1972 – Criticism and interpretation. I. Nadel, Ira Bruce. II. Title. ps3531.o82z625 2010 811 .52 –dc22 2010035126 isbn 978-0-521-51507-8 Hardback 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. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51507-8 - Ezra Pound in Context Edited by Ira B. Nadel Frontmatter More information Contents Notes on contributors page ix Acknowledgements xvii Chronology xviii List of abbreviations and note on references to The Cantos xxviii Introduction 1 Ira B. Nadel part i biography and works 11 1 Prose criticism 13 Vincent Sherry 2 Poetics 23 Ellen Stauder 3 Translation 33 Steven G. Yao 4 Romance languages 43 David Ten Eyck 5 Letters 54 Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos 6 Editor, anthologist 65 John G. Nichols 7 Education 75 Matthew Hofer 8 Journalism 85 Eric Bulson v © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51507-8 - Ezra Pound in Context Edited by Ira B. Nadel Frontmatter More information vi Contents 9 Politics 96 Alec Marsh 10 Economics 106 Leon Surette 11 Radio broadcasts 115 Benjamin Friedlander 12 Law 125 Robert Spoo 13 Textual criticism 136 Mark Byron 14 Archives 148 Caterina Ricciardi 15 The Lives of Pound 159 Ira B. Nadel part ii historical and cultural context 169 16 The classics 171 Peter Liebregts 17 Provenc¸al and the troubadours 181 William D. Paden 18 Dante and early Italian poetry 192 Tim Redman 19 America 202 Emily Mitchell Wallace 20 Venice 221 John Gery 21 London 231 Peter Brooker 22 Paris 241 Patricia Cockram 23 Rapallo and Rome 250 Massimo Bacigalupo 24 Pisa 261 Ronald Bush © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51507-8 - Ezra Pound in Context Edited by Ira B. Nadel Frontmatter More information Contents vii 25 Imagism 274 Ethan Lewis 26 Vorticism 285 Miranda Hickman 27 Music 298 Margaret Fisher 28 Visual arts 313 Rebecca Beasley 29 Confucius 324 Feng Lan 30 The Orient 335 Zhaoming Qian 31 Little magazines 345 Craig Monk 32 Publishing and publishers 356 Gregory Barnhisel 33 Modernism 366 George Bornstein 34 Fascism 376 Serenella Zanotti 35 Anti-Semitism 391 Alex Houen 36 Gender and sexuality 402 Helen Dennis 37 Race 412 Michael Coyle 38 Travel 424 Daniel Katz part iii critical reception 435 39 Pound before Paris: 1908–1920 437 Barry Ahearn 40 Pound before Pisa: 1920–1945 447 John Xiros Cooper © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51507-8 - Ezra Pound in Context Edited by Ira B. Nadel Frontmatter More information viii Contents 41 Pound after Pisa: 1945–1972 457 Stephen Sicari 42 Influence 467 James Longenbach Further reading 478 Index 483 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51507-8 - Ezra Pound in Context Edited by Ira B. Nadel Frontmatter More information Notes on contributors barry ahearn is Professor of English at Tulane University, New Orleans. His publications include Zukofsky’s “A”: An Introduction (1983), William Carlos Williams and Alterity (1994), and The Correspondence of William Carlos Williams and Louis Zukofsky (2003). He has recently completed an edition of the selected letters of Zukofsky. massimo bacigalupo teaches American literature at the University of Genoa, Italy, and lives in Rapallo. His family has been associated with the Pounds for several generations. He is the author of The Form´ed Trace: The Later Poetry of Ezra Pound (1980), and of annotated Italian editions of Pound’s Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1982), Homage to Sextus Propertius (1984), and Canti postumi (2001). In 2008 he co-edited the volume Ezra Pound, Language and Persona. He is an associate of the journals Poesia, Paideuma and Leviathan, and a member of the Ligurian Academy of Sciences and Letters. His translations of Pound, Wordsworth, Dickinson, Stevens, and many others won him the 2001 Italian National Translation Prize. gregory barnhisel is Associate Professor of English and the Director of first-year writing at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. HeistheauthorofJames Laughlin, New Directions, and the Remaking of Ezra Pound (2005) and the textbook Media and Messages: Strategies and Readings in Public Rhetoric (2005), as well as articles in Paideuma, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America,andModernism/Modernity.His current scholarly work focuses on the use of modernist art in the US cultural diplomacy program in the early Cold War. rebecca beasley is a Fellow and University Lecturer in English at The Queen’s College, Oxford. She is the author of Ezra Pound and the Visual Culture of Modernism (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and Theorists of Modernist Poetry: Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and T.E. Hulme (2007). She is ix © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51507-8 - Ezra Pound in Context Edited by Ira B. Nadel Frontmatter More information x Notes on contributors currently working on a study of the impact of Russian culture on British modernism. george bornstein is C. A. Patrides Professor of Literature Emeritus at the University of Michigan. He has written and edited over a dozen books on modernist literature, including most recently Material Modernism: The Politics of the Page (2001) and, with Richard J. Finneran, Early Essays by W. B. Yeats (2010). His new book The Colors of Zion: Blacks, Jews, And Irish a Century ago will appear shortly. peter brooker is Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Modernist Studies, University of Sussex. He has written widely on contemporary writing and theory and is the author of Bertolt Brecht: Dialectics, Poetry, Politics (1989), New York Fictions (1996), Modernity and Metropolis (2004), Bohemia in London (2004, 2007), and A Glossary of Cultural Theory (1999, 2003).With Andrew Thacker, he is editor of The Geographies of Modernism (2005), co-director of the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded Modernist Magazine Project, and co-editor of Volume i of The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines (2009). He is also co-editor of Oxford Handbook of Modernisms (2010). eric bulson is the author of the Cambridge Introduction to James Joyce (2006)andNovels, Maps, Modernity: the Spatial Imagination, 1850–2000 (2009). He teaches at colleges in Geneva, NY. ronal bush, Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature at Oxford University, is the author of The Genesis of Ezra Pound’s Cantos (1976)and T.S. Eliot: A Study of Character and Style (1983). He has published widely on Pound, Eliot, Joyce, and other modernist topics and is at work on a two-volume genetic study and critical edition of the Pisan Cantos. mark byron is a member of the Department of English at the University of Sydney. He has taught at the University of Washington and at Cambridge University, where he completed his PhD in 2001. His two current projects include a digital variorum edition of Ezra Pound’s Cantos and a digital edition of Samuel Beckett’s novel Watt.