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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.5
EAN: 9780811201629
ISBN: 0811201627
Label: New Directions
Manufacturer: New Directions
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 184
Publication Date: January 17, 1957
Publisher: New Directions
Sales Rank: 145369
Studio: New Directions
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I think this book is a good representation of Pound's work, and certainly one that Pound fans will enjoy. Personally, though, I've always had mixed feelings about Pound. I often feel like he had two very different voices--one, a pompous academic; the other, a humble haiku-esque observer of the world--and I wish the latter consistently outshined the former. I enjoy Pound's shorter poems like "Alba", "Salutation", "The Encounter", "And the days are not long enough", and "An Immortality" (the latter ... Read More
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Hard to reconcile Ezra Pound the poet, with such a beautiful sense for the rhythms and melodies of the English language, and so sensitive to his time and place in the literary tradition, with the man who broadcast propaganda for the Italians during the Second World War, whose preference was for the Fascists because of their sense of style. Mishima also comes to mind, with impeccable aesthetics, totalitarian politics.
In any case if the politico-poetic schism doesn't bother you, this slim ... Read More
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This book is a very good introduction to the work of Ezra Pound. There's a little bit of everything! You get some of his earlier, shorter poems, like "In a Station of the Metro," some translations, like "The Seafarer," or "Homage to Sextus Propertius," the famous Mauberley sequence (this book includes both the "original" poem "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley" and Pound's later poem "Mauberley" whereas most books reprint only the earlier poem), and, of course, some of the cantos.
I'm pretty sure that ... Read More
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Reading Ezra Pound is a remarkable experience. I find it amazing how attentive Ezra Pound is when it comes to the 'sound of poetry.' Reading his poems are aesthetically pleasing to the ear. It is consistent with his doctrine, "Behave as a good musician will do" when it comes to poetry. I find his translation of "River-merchant's Wife: A Letter" as one of the greatest highlight in modern poetry, along with many other poem included in this book.
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I like all the poems here, which vary tremendously in content and date from the beginning to the end of Pound's life.
Homage to Sextus Propertius is one of the greatest achievements in poetry during the 20th century. But don't read it without your Webster's dictionary and a classics encyclopedia!
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