No literary figure of the past century is comparable to Ezra Pound in the scope and depth of his exchange with China. In this book 162 previously unpublished letters between Pound and nine Chinese ...intellectuals, accompanied by introductions and notes, make available for the first time the forgotten stories of Pound and his Chinese friends.
In The Great War and the Language of Modernism, Vincent Sherry reopens long unanswered questions regarding the influence of the 1914 war on the verbal experiments of modernist poetry and fiction. ...Sherry recovers the political discourses of the British campaign and establishes the language to which literary modernism responds with its boldest initiatives. In its wholly new reading of Woolf, Eliot, and Pound, this book restores the historical content and depth of this literature and reveals its most daring import.
Ezra Pound transformed his style of poetry when he wrote The Adams Cantos in the 1920s. But what caused him to rethink his earlier writing techniques? Grounded in archival material, this study ...explores the extent to which Pound's poetry changed in response to his reading of 17th-century American History and the social climate of the pre-war period. Drawing on the Ezra Pound papers, David Ten Eyck documents the changes to Pound's documentary techniques, establishing a chronology of the composition of The Cantos. His close readings of specific passages, set against the interwar years, allow Ten Eyck to gain insights into Pound's 1930s political and social criticism. Through references to the annotated copy of The Works of John Adams, he explores Pound's engagement with Adams at the expense of Thomas Jefferson: a figure formally at the heart of his previous work. Ultimately, this contextual and archival study uses John Adams and America to unlock the fascist beliefs and the later poetry of Ezra Pound.
While Pound scholars are familiar with the American poet's commitment to Confucianism, the question of how Confucianism systematically shaped Pound's thoughts has not been convincingly answered.
This collection provides a documentary record of the reviews of Ezra Pound's work in contemporary journals and newspapers, an introduction that traces Pound's reception, and checklists of all known ...reviews of Pound's work published in his lifetime.
En el Gotham Book Mart, mirando los numerosos libros de versos recién aparecidos y las revistas de poesía y la abundancia de poemas en las otras revistas literarias, y tanto nombre de poeta joven en ...el catálogo We Moderns, me preguntaba -inocente extranjero- si la poesía no estaría volviéndose profesión lucrativa o si estaría, en realidad, llamada a ser, como soñaba Vachel Lindsay, un arte popular en los Estados Unidos, grabada en millares o millones de discos como las piezas o canciones de moda y recitada por futuros rapsodas y juglares en las pantallas de televisión. Guillaume Apollinaire -cuya poesía debe no poco a Whitman- recogió y propaló exageradamente una alegre leyenda inventada en Europa sobre el entierro del viejo bardo a la américaine, celebrado, decían, en la plaza de Camden, donde acampaban los circos ambulantes y en que se levantaron especialmente para los funerales tres amplias carpas, en una de las cuales estaba en exhibición el cadáver del poeta, mientras en otra se cocinaban y repartían comidas populares americanas, como un cocido de vaca y de carnero, y en la tercera, bebidas a discreción en toneles de whisky, barriles de cerveza, cubas de limonada y tanques de agua, para la multitud de más de tres mil almas que asistía a la ceremonia: hombres, mujeres y niños, amigos personales de Walt Whitman llegados a muchas partes, poetas y periodistas y caudillos políticos de Washington y pescadores de ostras de Long Island y conductores de tranvías de Broadway y negros y carneradas, como llamaba el vate -en supuesto español- a los mancebos que lo querían, fuera de todas sus antiguas queridas y sus innumerables hijos naturales en compañía de sus madres blancas y negras, un ruidoso gentío que circulaba por la plaza bajo las carpas oyendo las tres bandas que ejecutaban alternativamente marchas fúnebres y militares y dianas o machichas y los discursos de todos los que hablaban, que eran todos los que querían cuantas veces querían, por lo que siempre había tres o cuatro oradores hablando al mismo tiempo; pero
Chinese dreams Hayot, Eric R. J
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China's profound influence on the avant-garde in the 20th century was nowhere more apparent than in the work of Ezra Pound, Bertolt Brecht, and the writers associated with the Parisian literary ...journal Tel quel. Chinese Dreams explores the complex, intricate relationship between various "Chinas"—as texts—and the nation/culture known simply as "China"—their context—within the work of these writers. Eric Hayot calls into question the very means of representing otherness in the history of the West and ultimately asks if it might be possible to attend to the political meaning of imagining the other, while still enjoying the pleasures and possibilities of such dreaming. The latest edition of this critically acclaimed book includes a new preface by the author.
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