Pound Cummings

Author : Barry Ahearn
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0472102982

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Pound/Cummings by Barry Ahearn Pdf

Similarly, these letters should provoke a reevaluation of Cummings. Critics have treated Cummings's political views as either strictly private matters or merely incidental to his art. The letters, however, show that Cummings's radically conservative political opinions are wholly consistent with his poetics, and raise the question of the relation between Cummings's political principles and his enthusiasm for particular forms (and particular stars) of mass entertainment. In addition to their political revelations, the letters are steeped in the literary climate - and literary gossip - of the times. Pound comments often and candidly on Cummings's poetry and prose; both Pound and Cummings send light verse to each other. And the poets exchange anecdotes about such figures as Henry James, Wyndham Lewis, T. S. Eliot, Edmund Grosse, Max Eastman, and Aldous Huxley, among other writers.

Author : Ezra Pound,Marcella Spann
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0811201554

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Confucius to Cummings by Ezra Pound,Marcella Spann Pdf

Nearly a hundred poets are represented, a number of them in Pound's translations, with emphasis on the Greek, Latin, Chinese, Troubadour, Renaissance, and Elizabethan poets.

Author : Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos,Stephen J. Adams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313061431

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The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia by Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos,Stephen J. Adams Pdf

Ezra Pound forever changed the course of poetry. The author of a vast body of literature, his enormous range of references and use of multiple languages make him one of the most obscure authors and—because of his Fascism, anti-Semitism, and questionable sanity—one of the most controversial. This encyclopedia is a concise yet comprehensive guide to his life and writings. Included are more than 250 alphabetically arranged entries on such topics as Arabic history, Chinese translation, dance, Hilda Doolittle, Egyptian literature, Robert Frost, and Pound's publications. The entries are written by roughly 100 expert contributors and cite works for further reading. Ezra Pound forever changed the course of poetry. His vast body of poetry and critical works make him one of the 20th century's most prolific writers, and his influence has shaped later poets, great and small. His enormous range of references, deliberate obscurity, and use of multiple languages make him one of the most difficult authors and— because of his Fascism, anti-Semitism, and questionable sanity—one of the most controversial figures in American literary history. This encyclopedia is a concise yet comprehensive guide to his life and writings.

Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199238606

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Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends by Ezra Pound Pdf

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.

Author : Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 1288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1570717753

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E.E. Cummings by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno Pdf

The Long-Awaited, Intimate Portrait of an Extraordinary Life

Author : Susan Cheever
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101910481

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E. E. Cummings by Susan Cheever Pdf

One of the Best Books of the Year: The Economist, San Francisco Chronicle Cummings, in his radical experimentation with form, punctuation, spelling, and syntax, created a new kind of poetic expression. Because of his powerful work, he became a generation’s beloved heretic—at the time of his death he was one of the most widely read poets in the United States. Now, in this rich, illuminating biography, Susan Cheever traces the development of the poet and his work. She takes us from Cummings’s seemingly idyllic childhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts, through his years at Harvard (rooming with Dos Passos, befriending Malcolm Cowley and Lincoln Kirstein). There, he devoured the poetry of Ezra Pound, whose radical verses lured the young writer away from the politeness of the traditional nature poem towards a more adventurous, sexually conscious form. We follow Cummings to Paris in 1917, and, finally, to Greenwich Village to be among other modernist poets of the day—Marianne Moore and Hart Crane, among them. E. E. Cummings is a revelation of the man and the poet, and a brilliant reassessment of the freighted path of his legacy.

Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472508485

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The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and the Frobenius Institute, 1930-1959 by Ezra Pound Pdf

Collecting in full for the first time the correspondence between Ezra Pound and members of Leo Frobenius' Forschungsinstitut für Kulturmorphologie in Frankfurt across a 30 year period, this book sheds new light on an important but previously unexplored influence on Pound's controversial intellectual development in the Fascist era. Ezra Pound's long-term interest in anthropology and ethnography exerted a profound influence on early 20th century literary Modernism. These letters reveal the extent of the influence of Frobenius' concept of 'Paideuma' on Pound's poetic and political writings during this period and his growing engagement with the culture of Nazi Germany. Annotated throughout, the letters are supported by contextualising essays by leading Modernist scholars as well as relevant contemporary published articles by Pound himself and his leading correspondent at the Institute, the American Douglas C. Fox.

Author : David Ten Eyck
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441188410

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Ezra Pound's Adams Cantos by David Ten Eyck Pdf

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.

Author : J. Alison Rosenblitt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191079870

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E. E. Cummings' Modernism and the Classics by J. Alison Rosenblitt Pdf

This volume is a major, ground-breaking study of the modernist E. E. Cummings' engagement with the classics. With his experimental form and syntax, his irreverence, and his rejection of the highbrow, there are probably few current readers who would name Cummings if asked to identify 20th-century Anglophone poets in the Classical tradition. But for most of his life, and even for ten or twenty years after his death, this is how many readers and critics did see Cummings. He specialised in the study of classical literature as an undergraduate at Harvard, and his contemporaries saw him as a 'pagan' poet or a 'Juvenalian' satirist, with an Aristophanic sense of humour. In E.E. Cummings' Modernism and the Classics, Alison Rosenblitt aims to recover for the contemporary reader this lost understanding of Cummings as a classicizing poet. The book also includes an edition of previously unpublished work by Cummings himself, unearthed from archival research. For the first time, the reader has access to the full scope of Cummings' translations from Horace, Homer, and Greek drama, as well as two short pieces of classically-related prose, a short 'Alcaics' and a previously unknown and classicizing parody of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. This new work is exciting in its own right and essential to understanding Cummings' development as a poet.

Author : Catherine Reef
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0618568492

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E.E. Cummings by Catherine Reef Pdf

"A look into the life and poetry of E.E. Cummings."--From source other than the Library of Congress

Author : Etienne Terblanche
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401208161

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E.E. Cummings: Poetry and Ecology by Etienne Terblanche Pdf

By employing the modernist devices of fragmentation, recombination, and accentuated blank space, E. E. Cummings engages singularly with being on earth. This ecological achievement was largely ignored by the New Critics, and the subsequent semiotic spirit which has been holding that the sign hardly has to do with concrete existence on earth ironically perpetuated the neglect. In this book Etienne Terblanche shows that Cummings’s ecology relocates his oeuvre and status in contemporary discourse. For, the poet follows, mimes, and connects with the unfolding changes of earthly existence and growth—what he views as the ‘Tao’ of being—in his lyricism, sex poems, satire, and visual-verbal poems. This is true especially of the elusive manner or ‘how’ of his poetry overall. Careful ecocritical reading of this active culture-nature integrity in his poetry brings about an imperative new understanding and placement of his project. It further serves to show that, in their different ways, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound engage with nature in a similar way, thus again accentuating the importance of Cummings’s poetic project to the neglected and vital ecocritical perception of modernism in poetry.

Author : James Moran
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350145504

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Modernists and the Theatre by James Moran Pdf

Modernists and the Theatre examines how six key modernists, who are best known as poets and novelists, engaged with the realm of theatre and performance. Drawing on a wealth of unfamiliar archival material and fresh readings of neglected documents, James Moran demonstrates how these literary figures interacted with the playhouse, exploring W.B. Yeats's earliest playwriting, Ezra Pound's onstage acting, the links between James Joyce's and D.H. Lawrence's sense of drama, T.S. Eliot's thinking about theatrical popularity, and the feminist politics of Virginia Woolf's small-scale theatrical experimentation. While these modernists often made hostile comments about drama, this volume highlights how the writers were all repeatedly drawn to the form. While Yeats and Pound were fascinated by the controlling aspect of theatre, other authors felt inspired by theatre as a democratic forum in which dissenting voices could be heard. Some of these modernists used theatre to express and explore identities that had previously been sidelined in the public forum, including the working-class mining communities of Lawrence's plays, the sexually unconventional and non-binary gender expressions of Joyce's fiction, and the female experience that Woolf sought to represent and discuss in terms of theatrical performance. These writers may be known primarily for creating non-dramatic texts, but this book demonstrates the importance of the theatre to the activities of these authors, and shows how a sense of the theatrical repeatedly motivated the wider thinking and writing of six major figures in literary history.

Author : Lauren Arrington
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781942954767

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Late Modernism and Expatriation by Lauren Arrington Pdf

How did living abroad inflect writers’ perspectives on social change in the countries of their birth and in their adopted homelands? How did writers reformulate ideas of social class, race, and gender in these new contexts? How did they develop innovations in form and technique to achieve a style that reflected their social and political commitments? The essays in this book show how the “outward turn” that typifies late modernist writing was precipitated, in part, by writers’ experience of expatriation. Late Modernism & Expatriation encompasses writing from the 1930s to the present day and considers expatriation in both its voluntary and coerced manifestations. Together, the essays in this book shape our understanding of how migration (especially in its late twentieth- and twenty-first century complexities) affects late modernism’s temporalities. The book attends to major theoretical questions about mapping late modernist networks and it foregrounds neglected aspects of writers’ work while placing other writers in a new frame.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Tariff
ISBN : MINN:31951D03546983K

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Tariff Readjustment--1929 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means Pdf

Author : E. E. Cummings
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999-12-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780871401748

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AnOther E.E. Cummings by E. E. Cummings Pdf

As a poet, Cummings was a pioneer. His prose is no less experimental; he wrote memoirs, essays, and fiction that are provocative and often radically experimental.