The Cantos of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound

The Cantos of Ezra Pound Ezra Pound ebook
Publisher: Faber and Faber
ISBN: 0571048986,
Format: pdf
Page: 803

Consider some excerpts from his monumental epic poem, The Cantos. There's a little discussion of the Pisan Cantos, written in 1945 when Pound was held for treason in an American military detention center near Pisa, after his pro-Fascist wartime broadcasts to America. And then went down to the ship, Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea, and. Ezra Pound's Cantos constitute, it seems to me, the paramount example of poetry alert to – even anxious about – its own interpretative possibilities. Context: A few days ago I posted some words from and about Ezra Pound's Canto LXXX and a video of myself reading Arthur Symons “Modern Beauty” http://dirk-johnson.com/wpblog/?p=792. The Protestant cemetery But the Cantos had left Brodsky cold, and as for Pound's twelve-year incarceration in a mental institution in New York, 'in Russian eyes, that was nothing to rave about'. Ezra Pound's “The Cantos” is an “anthology” of world literature, past and present. Here's Ezra Pound, captured in 1945, extradited to America under threat of execution, then interned for twelve years in a mental institution; and there's Joseph Brodsky, Nobel Prize-winner, exiled to Siberia and then effectively expelled from the Soviet Union. New post: Reading the Cantos: A Study of Meaning in Ezra Pound by Noel Stock http://t.co/cesMypzj · @bighan Yes, and an actual musician to boot. Further information: List of cultural references in The Cantos. @wilw I mean, in addition to the barleywine wort. But I still consider his writing among the highest art. E, pfff, nem precisa: Os Cantos é um livro difícil.