Genius, Confucian, fascist, traitor, peace activist Ezra Pound love him or hate him, he is impossible to ignore as one of the most influential modernists and controversial poets of the twentieth century. His life, as Alec Marsh makes clear in this biography, raises vital questions for anyone interested in politics, art, and poetry.No writer of his stature promoted so many acquaintances who would go on to become such distinguished names in their own right James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and Ford Madox Ford were among the many who benefited from Pound s enthusiasm and editorial suggestions. And...
Genius, Confucian, fascist, traitor, peace activist Ezra Pound love him or hate him, he is impossible to ignore as one of the most influential mode...
Marsh locates Pound and Williams firmly in the Jeffersonian tradition and examines their epic poems as manifestations of a Jeffersonian ideology in modernist terms. The modernist poets William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound were latter-day Jeffersonians whose politics and poetry were strongly marked by the populism of the late 19th century. They were sharply aware of the social contradictions of modernization and were committed to a highly politicized, often polemical poetry that criticized finance capitalism and its institutions--notably banks--in the strongest...
Marsh locates Pound and Williams firmly in the Jeffersonian tradition and examines their epic poems as manifestations of a Jeffersonian ide...
A collection of poems devoted to the Boston Red Sox spanning the period 1999 through 2013. Each poem is a "translation" from a well-known poem into a kind of hymn or ode to the Boston baseball team. Thus the title poem is a line-by-line revision of T.S. Eliot's immortal "The Waste Land." Along with a few original works, the reader will find poems based on templates provided by poets as diverse as John Keats and Marianne Moore; Wordsworth and Robert Lowell; Poe and Pound; W.C. Williams and William Shakespeare. Begun as a goof, they seem to have acquired resonance over the years of their...
A collection of poems devoted to the Boston Red Sox spanning the period 1999 through 2013. Each poem is a "translation" from a well-known poem into a ...
