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Ezra Pound: Poems & Translations (Loa #144) - (Library of America) (Hardcover)

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  • Here in one volume is the biggest and best collection of Pound's poetry (excepting his long poem The Cantos) and translations ever assembled.
  • About the Author: American poet and critic Ezra Pound (1885-1972) was one of the pioneering figures of American modernism.
  • 1363 Pages
  • Poetry, American
  • Series Name: Library of America

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Poetic visionary Ezra Pound catalyzed American literature's modernist revolution. This volume, the most comprehensive collection of his poetry and translations ever assembled, gathers all his verse except "The Cantos."



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Here in one volume is the biggest and best collection of Pound's poetry (excepting his long poem The Cantos) and translations ever assembled.

Ranging from the text of the handmade first collection Hilda's Book (a gift to the poet H.D.) to his late translations of Horace, and containing dozens of items previously unavailable, Poems and Translations reveals the diversity and richness of a body of work marked by daring invention and resonant music.

In such early volumes as Ripostes, Cathay, Lustra, and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley--as surely as in his later magisterial versions of The Confucian Odes and the Sophoclean dramas Women of Trachis and Elektra--Pound followed his own directive to "make it new," opening fresh formal pathways while exploring the most ancient traditions. Before, during, and after the controversies and catastrophes of his public career (culminating in his long residence in a Washington mental hospital while under indictment for treason), Pound remained capable of rare technical brilliance and indelible lyricism.

Here are the lush early lyrics, echoing Browning and the Troubadours; the chiseled free verse of such masterpieces as "The Return," "Near Perigord," and "Homage to Sextus Propertius"; the dazzling translations that led Eliot to call Pound "the inventor of Chinese poetry for our time." The Chinese verse translations are supplemented by Pound's versions of the Confucian prose texts--The Analects, The Great Digest, and The Unwobbling Pivot--which he saw as crucial to his literary aims. An extensive chronology offers guidance to Pound's tumultuous life, and detailed notes clarify the many recondite allusions.

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.



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"Richard Sieburth's huge edition of Pound's Poems and Translations for The Library of America devotes many pages to the young man 'out of key with his time.' ... The first edition of Pound's work with any claim to completeness.... to lovers of Pound's work, Poems and Translations could not be more welcome." --TLS



About the Author



American poet and critic Ezra Pound (1885-1972) was one of the pioneering figures of American modernism.

Richard Sieburth
, editor, is professor of French and Comparative Literature at New York University and the author of Instigations: Ezra Pound and Remy de Gourmont and editor of Pound's A Walking Tour in Southern France.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.16 Inches (H) x 5.23 Inches (W) x 1.66 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.88 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 1363
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: American
Series Title: Library of America
Publisher: Library of America
Format: Hardcover
Author: Ezra Pound
Language: English
Street Date: October 13, 2003
TCIN: 84950797
UPC: 9781931082419
Item Number (DPCI): 247-35-6792
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Estimated ship weight: 1.88 pounds
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