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Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume III: The Tragic Years 1939-1972 (Ezra Pound, Poet)

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Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume III: The Tragic Years 1939-1972 (Ezra Pound, Poet)

This third and final volume of A. David Moody's critical life of Ezra Pound presents Pound's personal tragedy in a tragic time. The first volumes of Moody's biography have been acclaimed as 'masterly' (Daily Telegraph), 'exceptional' (Literary Review), and 'invaluable' (New York Times Book Review). In this concluding volume, we experience the 1939-1945 World War, and Pound's hubristic involvement in Fascist Italy's part in it; we encounter the grave moral and
intellectual error of Pound holding the Jewish race responsible for the war; and his consequent downfall, being charged with treason, condemned as an anti-Semite, and shut up for twelve years in an institution for the insane. Further, we see Pound stripped for life, by his own counsel and wife, of his civil
and human rights.

Pound endured what was inflicted upon him, justly and unjustly, without complaint; and continued his lifetime's effort to promote, in and through his Cantos and his translations, a consciousness of a possible humane and just social order. The contradictions run deep and compel, as tragedy does, a steady and unprejudiced contemplation and an answering depth of comprehension.

Country	USA
Author	A. David Moody
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9780191058981
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	OUP Oxford
Manufacturer	OUP Oxford
NumberOfPages	676
PublicationDate	2015-09-24
Publisher	OUP Oxford
ReleaseDate	2015-10-06
Studio	OUP Oxford

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