Ezra Pound
Author
Series
Publisher
New Directions Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
1957.
Language
English
Description
"Ezra Pound has been called "the inventor of modern poetry in English." The verse and criticism which he produced during the early years of the twentieth century very largely determined the directions of creative writing in our time; virtually every major poet in England and America today has acknowledged his help or influence. Pound's lyric genius, his superb technique, and his fresh insight into literary problems make him one of the small company...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 304
Publisher
[New Directions Pub. Corp.]
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 317
Publisher
[New Directions Pub. Corp.]
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1918.
Language
English
Description
This eclectic 1918 volume of poetry, essays, reviews, dramatic dialogues, and short fiction is a brilliant hotchpotch of Pound's early writings. Among the contents are "'Dubliners' and Mr. James Joyce" and "Troubadours: Their Sorts and Conditions," as well as the key modernist essays "A Few Don'ts" and "Ford Madox Hueffer and the Prose Tradition in Verse."
12) Women of Trachis
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
This new translation of Sophokles’ Women of Trachis is a living script in conversation with the past. Rachel Kitzinger, a Classicist, and Eamon Grennan, a poet, have captured the tones of ancient Greek in strong, swift English, making this translation suitable for a modern audience, whether as readers, listeners, or viewers. The unique addition of an audio recording of the text performed by Vassar College students contributes to the play's accessibility...
Author
Series
Library of America ; 144
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Poetic visionary Ezra Pound catalyzed American literature's modernist revolution. From the swirling center of poetic change he excited the powerful energies of Eliot, Joyce, and William Carlos Williams and championed the Imagism and Vorticism movements. This volume, the most comprehensive collection of his poetry and translations ever assembled, gathers all his verse except The Cantos. In addition to the famous poems that transformed...