Ezra Pound, Italy, and the Cantos /
"Pound spent most of his life in Italy and wrote about it incessantly in his poetry. Only by following his footsteps, acquaintances and composition processes can we make sense of and enjoy his forbidding Cantos. This study provides for the first time an account of Pound's Italian wandering...
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| Language: | English |
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Clemson :
Clemson University Press,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Ezra Pound Center for Literature series.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Part I: Places
- 1. How to Read the Cantos-Rapallo
- 2. City vs. Country-Venice
- 3. Greeting the Returning Gods-Rome
- 4. The Green World
- Part II: Meetings
- 5. "And Some Climbing"-Dante
- 6. Nature, History, and Myth-Montale
- 7. "My Best Translator"-Izzo
- 8. "'Ma' Riess of Rapallo"-Laughlin
- Part III: Readings
- 9. Poet as Anthropologist-"European Paideuma"
- 10. Moscardino and Enrico Pea ("pronounced peh-ah")
- 11. "Republican Correspondence"-The Italian Cantos 72 and 73
- 12. The Pisan Cantos in Progress
- Part IV: Endings
- 13. "I wish he would explain his explanation
- 14. End to Torment?-E.P., H.D., and La Martinelli
- 15. Sant'Ambrogio in the Half-Light
- 16. America vs. Italy in the Posthumous Cantos
- Afterword
- Chronology
- Notes
- Index.