Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
by Ezra Pound
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Author: Ezra PoundIntroduction: T. S. Eliot
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1968-03-01
ISBN: 0811201570
Number of pages: 484
Publisher: New Directions
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Book Review: Excellent Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Summary: 5 Stars
Pound's literary essays are an indispensable companion not only to his own poetry, but also to what is generally referred to as modernist poetry, especially that of T. S. Eliot and the later Yeats, in general. The first few essays announce a clear break with the poetry of the 19th century and urge a return to the authenticity (my term, not Pound's) of earlier, premodern styles of lyric poetry. Some of Pound's assertions may not make sense to a reader who is largely unfamiliar with the development of lyric poetry from the Renaissance to the 19th century, or with Pound's poetry itself--the essays are not written for the uninitiated. I highly recommend reading Pound's poems alongside his essays since the two always elucidate each other, the essays providing an explanation of the poems' rationales, and the poems offering examples of the essays' arguments. But Pound's explanations are typically lucid in themselves, and one could hardly find a clearer articulation of the modernist aesthetic agenda.
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