Ezra Pound: A Critical Anthology

417 Pages·1970·27.446 MB·English

by  SULLIVAN, J.P. (editor)

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Ezra Pound

edited by J. P. Sullivan

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Ezra Pound
Edited by J. P. Sullivan
Ezra Pound
A Critical Anthology
Edited by J.P. Sullivan
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First published 1970
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Contents
Preface ττ
Table of Dates 15
Part One Early Criticism, to 1945
Introduction 21
Ezra Pound 33
from a letter to William Carlos Williams (1908)
Edward Thomas 35
from ‘Two Poets’, a review of Personae of Ezra Pound (1909)
Ezra Pound 37
from The Spirit of Romance (1910)
F. S. Flint and Ezra Pound 40
from ‘Imagisme’ (1913)
Ezra Pound 45
from ‘The Serious Artist’ (1913)
Ezra Pound 46
from ‘Vorticism’ (1914)
Ezra Pound 57
from a letter to Harriet Monroe (1915)
Ezra Pound 59
from a letter to Harriet Monroe (1915)
Ezra Pound 60
from a letter to Iris Barry (1916)
Ezra Pound 61
from a letter to Iris Barry (1916)
Ezra Pound 65
from a letter to Iris Barry (1916)
6 Contents
Ezra Pound 66
from a letter to Iris Barry (1916)
Ezra Pound 66
from a letter to Iris Barry (1916)
Ezra Pound 67
from a letter to Iris Barry (1916)
Ezra Pound 67
‘A Truce’ (1916)
T. S. Eliot 67
from Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry (1917)
Ezra Pound 80
from ‘T. 5. Eliot’ (1917)
Ezra Pound 81
from ‘Elizabethan Classicists’ (1917-18)
Ezra Pound 82
from ‘Vers Libre and Arnold Dolmetsch’ (1917)
Ezra Pound 83
from ‘A Retrospect’ (1918)
Ezra Pound 87
from a letter to Harriet Monroe (1918)
Ezra Pound 88
from ‘Early Translators of Homer’ (1919)
Ezra Pound 88
from a letter to A. R. Orage (1919)
Ezra Pound 90
from a letter to Felix E. Schelling (1922)
Ezra Pound 93
from a letter to Homer L. Pound (1927)
Ezra Pound 94
from ‘Dr Williams’ Position’ (1928)
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Ezra Pound 95
Letter to René Taupin (1928)
Ezra Pound 98
from ‘Mediaevalism and Mediaevalism (Guido Cavalcanti)’ (1928)
W.B. Yeats 99
from A Packet for Ezra Pound (1928)
T. S. Eliot τοτ
from his Introduction to Ezra Pound: Selected Poems (1928)
Ezra Pound 109
from ‘How to Read, or Why’ (1929)
Louis Zukofsky 113
from ‘Ezra Pound’ (1929)
Louis Zukofsky 114
from ‘American Poetry 1920-1930’ (1930)
Ezra Pound 115
Letter to the Editor of the English Journal (1931)
Ezra Pound 116
from ‘Shorter Pieces and Extracts from Uncollected Essays’ (1931)
William Carlos Williams 116
‘Excerpts from a Critical Sketch: A Draft of Thirty Cantos by Ezra Pound’
(1931)
Ezra Pound 122
from a letter to John Drummond (1932)
F. R. Leavis 123
from New Bearings in English Poetry (1932)
Ε. Β. Leavis 132
from ‘Retrospect’ (1950)
Ronald Bottrall 133
*XXX Cantos of Ezra Pound: An Incursion into Poetics’ (1933)
﹒ P. Blackmur 143
‘Masks of Ezra Pound’ (1934)
8 Contents
Ezra Pound 172
from a letter to Sarah Perkins Cope (1934)
Ezra Pound 173
from ‘Hell’ (1934)
Ezra Pound 173
from ‘The Teacher’s Mission’ (1934)
Ezra Pound 174
from ‘Date Line’ (1934)
Ezra Pound 176
from ABC of Reading (1934)
T. S. Eliot 181
from After Strange Gods: A Primer of Modern Heresy (1934)
Ezra Pound 183
from ‘‘‘We have had no battles, but we have all joined in and made
roads”’’ (1935)
W.B. Yeats 183
from his Introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936)
Ezra Pound 185
from a letter to John Lackay Brown (1937)
Yvor Winters 186
from Primitivism and Decadence: A Study of American Experimental Poetry
(1937)
Ezra Pound 190
from Guide to Kulchur (1938)
Ezra Pound 192
from a letter to Hubert Creekmore (1939)
Ezra Pound 192
from a letter to George Santayana (1940)
Ezra Pound 194
from a letter to Katue Kitasono (1940)
Ezra Pound 195
from A Visiting Card (1942)