Personae: The Shorter Poems
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If the invention of literary modernism is usually attributed to James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, it was Pound alone who provided (in Hugh Kenner's words) the synergetic presence) to convert individual experiment into an international movement. In 1926 Pound carefully sculpted his body of shorter poems into a definitive collection which would best show the concentration of force, the economy of means, and the habit of analysis that were, to...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:081121138X
ISBN13:9780811211383
Release Date:September 1990
Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
Length:304 Pages
Weight:0.74 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.4" x 8.0"
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Artist of the beautiful.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
This collection of Pound's earlier poems is the necessary companion of any modern poet. Especially noteworthy, and on display here, is the Pound Rhythm. Pound wrote poetry that embodied its own music. There is much to learn from Pound and in this volume he can be approached without the annotated index that is needed to tackle The Cantos.
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