Ezra Pound's Cantos Paperback

Peter Makin

This casebook provides a selection of key criticism, including an article newly translated into English, on the Cantos of Ezra Pound. The introduction positions the poem within Pound's corpus, contextualizes the contributions included and outlines their arguments, and concludes with suggestions for how the student may best approach this troubled and fascinating artifact. The selected articles maintain a high level of immediate contact with the Cantos, with the intention of preparing students for reading individual cantos on their own. Contributors discuss the nature of many of the successive major blocks of work, allowing the Pound newcomer to experience the poem as an irregular pr

0195175298

9780195175295

English

Oxford University Press

12-Jul-10

288

Peter Makin is Professor of English at Kansai University in Osaka, Japan.