The Life Of Ezra Pound

Author : Noel Stock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136658912
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Ezra Pound written by Noel Stock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1970, this is a detailed and balanced biography of one of the most controversial literary figures of the twentieth century. Ezra Pound, an American who left home for Venice and London at the age of twenty-three, was a leading member of ‘the modern movement’, a friend and helper of Joyce, Eliot, Yeats, Hemingway, an early supporter of Lawrence and Frost. As a critic of modern society his far-reaching and controversial theories on politics, economics and religion led him to broadcast over Rome Radio during the Second World War, after which he was indicted for treason but declared insane by an American court. He then spent more than twelve years in St Elizabeth’s Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Washington, D.C. In 1958 the changes against him were dropped and he returned to Italy where he had lived between 1924 and 1945.

Author : Humphrey Carpenter
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571269099
Total Pages : 1068 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Serious Character written by Humphrey Carpenter and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ezra Pound's greatness as a man of letters - poet, translator, critic, editor, pedagogue, universal correspondent - made him a central figure in the literature of the twentieth century. He was an exotic and controversial character throughout his life, and his public career achieved melodrama in l945 when he was indicted on a charge of treason, for broadcasting Axis propaganda on Rome radio during the war. He was eventually confined to a Washington psychiatric hospital for thirteen years. The final period of his life, after his release and return to Italy, was as dramatic - and tragic - as anything that had gone before. In this vigorous and fully documented biography Humphrey Carpenter carefully scrutinizes and often takes issue with the accepted valuation of Pound's achievements and his personality. He had access to Pound's vast correspondence - including highly revealing letters to his parents - and to medical records and confidential American government memoranda relating to Pound's indictment and trial. A Serious Character is rich in fascinating detail and acutely challenging in its judgements and commentary. Its title is taken from one of Pound's favourite sayings (first recorded in 1913): 'Are you or are you not, a serious character?'.

Author : Anthony David Moody
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019921557X
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ezra Pound: Poet written by Anthony David Moody and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-11 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I of a major new two-part biography. Contentious, colourful, revolutionary, here is the young Pound - a determined and energetic genius setting out to make his way both as a poet and as a force for civilization in England and America. Covering the years up to 1920, David Moody explores Pound's alliances with Yeats, Eliot, and Wyndham Lewis, the birth of Vorticism, and his poetry up to Hugh Selwyn Mauberley and the first Cantos.

Author : Massimo Bacigalupo
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1949979016
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ezra Pound, Italy, and the Cantos written by Massimo Bacigalupo and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ezra 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 wanderings and of what they became in his work. After this study we will be able to read Pound as a guide to the places, people and books he loved, and we will share his the poet traveler’s joys and discoveries.

Author : Daniel Swift
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448191882
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bughouse written by Daniel Swift and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘An extraordinary book of real passionate research’ Edmund de Waal In 1945, Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for his broadcasts in Fascist Italy during the Second World War. But before the trial could take place Pound was pronounced insane. Escaping a potential death sentence he was shipped off to St Elizabeths Hospital near Washington, DC, where he was held for over a decade. At the hospital, Pound was at his most contradictory and most controversial: a genius writer – ‘The most important living poet in the English language’ according to T. S. Eliot – but also a traitor and now, seemingly, a madman. But he remained a magnetic figure. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell and John Berryman all went to visit him at what was perhaps the world’s most unorthodox literary salon: convened by a fascist and held in a lunatic asylum. Told through the eyes of his illustrious visitors, The Bughouse captures the essence of Pound – the artistic flair, the profound human flaws – whilst telling the grand story of politics and art in the twentieth century.

Author : Alec Marsh
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861899688
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ezra Pound written by Alec Marsh and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genius, Confucian, fascist, traitor, peace activist—Ezra Pound—love him or hate him, he is impossible to ignore as one of the most influential modernists and controversial poets of the twentieth century. His life, as Alec Marsh makes clear in this biography, raises vital questions for anyone interested in politics, art, and poetry. No writer of his stature promoted so many acquaintances who would go on to become such distinguished names in their own right—James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and Ford Madox Ford were among the many who benefited from Pound’s enthusiasm and editorial suggestions. And without Pound’s generosity to his fellow writers, literary modernism might not have happened, or have been the significant, influential movement that it became. Yet by 1925, Pound himself was living in obscurity in Italy, having trouble publishing his own work. There he became a Mussolini enthusiast and was eventually indicted for treason by the United States before being judged mentally incompetent to stand trial. Marsh takes us inside these years in an attempt to uncover what happened. How did such a great modern artist succomb to such views? Was he a traitor? And was he, in fact, insane? Analyzing Pound’s prose and poetry as well as his magnum opus, The Cantos, Marsh provides clear insights into Pound’s work as well as a coherent account of his troubled life that will be essential reading for students and fans of modernist literature.

Author : Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313061432
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia written by Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-04-30 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ezra Pound forever changed the course of poetry. The author of a vast body of literature, his enormous range of references and use of multiple languages make him one of the most obscure authors and—because of his Fascism, anti-Semitism, and questionable sanity—one of the most controversial. This encyclopedia is a concise yet comprehensive guide to his life and writings. Included are more than 250 alphabetically arranged entries on such topics as Arabic history, Chinese translation, dance, Hilda Doolittle, Egyptian literature, Robert Frost, and Pound's publications. The entries are written by roughly 100 expert contributors and cite works for further reading. Ezra Pound forever changed the course of poetry. His vast body of poetry and critical works make him one of the 20th century's most prolific writers, and his influence has shaped later poets, great and small. His enormous range of references, deliberate obscurity, and use of multiple languages make him one of the most difficult authors and— because of his Fascism, anti-Semitism, and questionable sanity—one of the most controversial figures in American literary history. This encyclopedia is a concise yet comprehensive guide to his life and writings.

Author : Anthony David Moody
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198704364
Total Pages : 701 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ezra Pound, Poet written by Anthony David Moody and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This third and final volume of A. David Moody's critically acclaimed three-part biography of Ezra Pound opens at the outbreak of the Second World War. A tragic time for Europe and the world, the middle years of the twentieth century saw great personal tragedy for Pound. After blaming the Jewish race for the outbreak of the war and supporting Fascist Italy's role throughout, he was charged with treason and condemned as an anti-Semite. Following months in a US detention camp, he was committed to an institution for the insane where he would spend twelve years of his life"--Dust jacket flap.

Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811215589
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pisan Cantos written by Ezra Pound and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last, a definitive, paperback edition of Ezra Pound's finest work.

Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811217842
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ezra Pound and Music written by Ezra Pound and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included here are all of Pound's concert reviews and statements; the biweekly columns written under the pen name William Atheling for The New Age in London; articles from other periodicals; the complete text of the 1924 landmark volume Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony; extracts from books and letters, and the poet's additional writings on the subject of music. The pieces are organized chronologically, with illuminating commentary, thorough footnotes, and an index. Three appendixes complete this comprehensive volume; an analysis of Pound's theories of "absolute rhythm" and "Great Bass;" a glossary of important musical personalities mentioned in the text and the composer George Antheil's 1924 appreciation, "Why a Poet Quit the Muses."