New Selected Poems and Translations (New Directions Paperbook)

New Selected Poems and Translations (New Directions Paperbook)
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The essential collection of Ezra Poundâ€™s poetryâ€•newly expanded and annotated with essays by Richard Sieburth, T. S. Eliot, and John Berryman.
This newly revised and greatly expanded edition of Ezra Poundâ€™s Selected Poems is intended to articulate Pound for the twenty-first century. Gone are many of the â€œstale creampuffsâ€ (as Pound called them) of the 1949 edition. Instead, new emphasis has been laid on the interpenetration of original composition and translation within Poundâ€™s career. New features of this edition include the complete â€œHomage to Sextus Propertiusâ€ in its original lineation, early translations from Cavalcanti, Heine, and the troubadours, as well as late translations of Sophocles, and the Confucian Odes.

As a lifelong expatriate, Pound parceled out his work to a variety of journals in England, America, France, and Italy. This new edition takes account of this complex publishing history by giving the poems in the chronological order of their original magazine publication. We can observe Pound as he first emerges onto the literary scene in the pages of Ford Madox Fordâ€™s English Review and Harriet Monroeâ€™s Chicago-based Poetry, and then as an agent provocateur for the avant-garde Little Review, Blast, and The Dial.

Unlike all previous selections, this volume provides annotation to all the early poems as well as a running commentary on the later Cantos â€• indispensable to any reader wanting to follow Pound on his epic odyssey through ancient China, medieval Provence, the Italian Renaissance, the early American Republic, and the darkness of the twentieth century. The editor, Richard Sieburth, provides a chronology of Poundâ€™s life, a new preface, and an informative afterword, â€œSelecting Pound.â€ Also included in the appendix are T. S. Eliotâ€™s and John Berrymanâ€™s original introductions to Poundâ€™s Selected Poems.
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780811217330
ReleaseDate 2010-10-29
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780811217330

Country	USA
Brand	New Directions
Manufacturer	New Directions
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780811217330
ReleaseDate	2010-10-29
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780811217330

New Selected Poems and Translations (New Directions Paperbook)

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