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Pound/the Little Review

Pound/the Little Review( )
Author: Pound, Ezra
Scott, Thomas L.
Editor: Friedman, Melvin J.
Series title:The Correspondence of Ezra Pound Ser.
ISBN:978-0-8112-1059-1
Publication Date:Jan 1989
Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $37.50
Book Description:

Gathers Pound's letters to the publisher of the Little Review and provides background information on this period in Pound's life.

Book Details
Pages:1
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / American / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.4 x 9.4 x 1.5 Inches
Book Weight:0.022 Pounds
Author Biography
Pound, Ezra (Author)
Ezra Pound, 1885-1972 Ezra Weston Loomis Pound ("Ezra Pound"), along with T. S. Eliot, was one of the two main influences on British and U.S. poetry between the two world wars. Pound was born in a small, two-storey house in Hailey, Idaho Territory on October 30, 1885. Between 1897 and 1900 Pound attended Cheltenham Military Academy, sometimes as a boarder, where he specialized in Latin. Pound graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and went abroad to live in 1908.

The collection of his Letters, 1907--1941 revealed the great erudition of this most controversial expatriate poet. His first book, A Lume Spento, a small collection of poems, was published in Venice in 1908. With the publication of Personae in London in 1909, he became the leader of the imagists abroad.

Pound's writings have been subject to many foreign influences. First he imitated the troubadours; then he came under the influence of the Chinese and Japanese poets. The Cantos (1925--60), his major work, to which he added for many years, is a mixture of modern colloquial language and classical quotation. The Pisan Cantos (1948), written during his imprisonment in Italy, is more autobiographical.

Pound's prose, as well as his poetry, has been extremely influential. The Spirit of Romance (1910) is a revision of his studies of little-known romance writers. ABC of Reading (1934) is an exposition of his critical method. His critical writings include Literary Essays of Ezra Pound (1954), Instigations (1920), and Guide to Kulchur (1938). Pound was a linguist, whom Eliot called "the inventor of Chinese poetry for our time." His greatest translating achievements from Japanese, Chinese, Anglo-Saxon, Italian, Provencal, and French are collected in The Translations of Ezra Pound (1933). Among his other writings are Make It New: Essays; Jefferson and/or Mussolini, a discussion of American democracy and capitalism and fascism; and The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan, with Erne



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