Ezra Pound makes his Penguin Classics debut with this unique selection of his early poems and prose, edited with an introductory essay and notes by Pound expert Ira Nadel. The poetry includes such early masterpieces as The Seafarer, Homage to Sextus Propertius, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, and the first eight of Pound s incomparable Cantos. The prose includes a series of articles and critical pieces, with essays on Imagism, Vorticism, Joyce, and the well-known Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry.
First time in Penguin Classics
Includes generous selections of...
Ezra Pound makes his Penguin Classics debut with this unique selection of his early poems and prose, edited with an introductory essay and notes by Po...
Eliot wrote in his introduction: I hope that this volume will demonstrate that Pound's literary criticism is the most important contemporary criticism of its kind...perhaps the kind we can least afford to do without...the refreshment, the revitalization and making new' of literature in our time.
Eliot wrote in his introduction: I hope that this volume will demonstrate that Pound's literary criticism is the most important contemporary critic...
Even before establishing "New Directions," James Laughlin had met and studied with Ezra Pound. These selected letters capture the spirit of their growing relationship from pupil and teacher to publisher and author. Pound's correspondence summons up the inner man and the literary figure. Literature, music, friends and politics fill his pages.
Even before establishing "New Directions," James Laughlin had met and studied with Ezra Pound. These selected letters capture the spirit of their grow...
This outstanding, scholarly work by an American-born authority on Chinese and Japanese art and literature, edited and translated by one of the most ambitious, influential, and innovative poets of the first half of the 20th century, provides Western readers with a valuable interpretation of an important aspect of Japanese culture. In addition to the complete translations of 15 plays, the text discusses historical background and development of the Noh theater.
This outstanding, scholarly work by an American-born authority on Chinese and Japanese art and literature, edited and translated by one of the most am...
Ezra Pound here recreates for the English-speaking world the great poetry of ancient China. The 305 odes of the Classic Anthology are the living tradition of Chinese poetry. Since the fifth century before Christ, they have been as familiar to literate Chinese as the Homeric poems were to the ancient Greeks. Indeed, Confucius held that no man was truly educated until he had studied the odes.
Ezra Pound here recreates for the English-speaking world the great poetry of ancient China. The 305 odes of the Classic Anthology are the living tradi...
Over the past decade literary critic and editor Jerome McGann has developed a theory of textuality based in writing and production rather than in reading and interpretation. These new essays extend his investigations of the instability of the physical text. McGann shows how every text enters the world under socio-historical conditions that set the stage for a ceaseless process of textual development and mutation. Arguing that textuality is a matter of inscription and articulation, he explores texts as material and social phenomena, as particular kinds of acts. McGann links his study to...
Over the past decade literary critic and editor Jerome McGann has developed a theory of textuality based in writing and production rather than in r...
