The Poetic Achievement of Ezra Pound

By Michael Alexander

Book Overview

An introduction to Ezra Pound's work. Alexander shows how he contributed to the modernist movement through his own writing as well as through his impact on Yeats, Eliot, Joyce and others.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.
An introduction to Ezra Pound's work. Alexander shows how he contributed to the modernist movement through his own writing as well as through his impact on Yeats, Eliot, Joyce and others.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program,

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520315065
• ISBN13: 9780520315068
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A concise approach for Pound's poetry.

Much have been said about the complex structure or unavailability of Pound's work. When I read this book I start to realise how much I was missing by just skipping the toughest pages of The Cantos, or by ignoring his earliest poetry. I believe this book is intended to both the scholar and the dilettanti (like me), because of it's structure clearness, and the care the author takes in giving enough examples for making clear what he is thinking. Nevertheless, due to the lenght of this book, it is imposible to attain a detailed overview of Pound's poetry (that is why I give to it only 4 stars). Despite of that, this book is a MUST read, if you wish to make a smooth approach to Pound's works (not only the so-called Pound's poetry is revised, but also his Translations).