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Ezra Pound's Adams Cantos

By Pound , Ezra; Eyck , David Ten

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2012
ISBN
978-1-4411-8841-0, 144118841X, 978-1-4411-0049-8
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5919776 bytes)
Series
Historicizing modernism
Pages
243\243
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
-- 1885-1972. -- Cantos. Pound-- 1885-1972. POETRY -- American -- General. CantoEzraEzra)Pound

Description

Ezra Pound transformed his style of poetry when he wrote The Adams Cantos in the 1920s. But what caused him to rethink his earlier writing techniques? Grounded in archival material, this study explores the extent to which Pound's poetry changed in response to his reading of seventeenth-century American History and the social climate of the pre-war period. Drawing on the Ezra Pound papers, David Ten Eyck documents the changes to Pound's documentary techniques, establishing a chronology of the composition of The Cantos. His close readings of specific passages, set against the interwar years, all. Read more... Abstract: A study of Ezra Pound's poetic innovations and treatment of American history in The Cantos. Read more...

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