Ezra Pound: Poet
Volume II: The Epic Years
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 25 September 2014
- ISBN 9780199215584
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages456 pages
- Size 241x168x43 mm
- Weight 930 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 pages of black-and-white plates 0
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Short description:
The long-awaited second volume of A. David Moody's acclaimed three-part biography. The Epic Years examines Pound's middle years, a period which was also his most productive
MoreLong description:
This second volume of A. David Moody's full-scale portrait, covering Ezra Pound's middle years, weaves together into a single highly readable and challenging narrative, in a way that has not been done before, the illuminating story of his life, his achievement as a poet and a composer, and his one-man crusade for economic justice.
There is new insight into his complicated personal relationships. There are detailed accounts of the composition of his two operas and of his original contribution to the theory of harmony. A canto by canto and decad by decad elucidation of the form and meaning of the first seventy-one cantos of his epic reveals their hitherto unperceived musical structures and their overall design. The thinking behind his support for Mussolini's economic programme during the Great Depression of the 1930s is brought to light, and shown to be not "fascist" but essentially true to the principles of the American Revolution, and, behind that, to Confucian ideas of responsible government. At the same time it is made clear that he saw only what he wanted to see in Mussolini's Fascism, and later in Hitler's Nazism, and was blind to their darker policies. And it is clear that he went most seriously wrong in deploying, as a weapon in his war on the injustice of the capitalist financial system, the anti-Semitism endemic in Europe and America and at that time turning murderous in Nazi Germany.
Pound is revealed as a great poet and a flawed idealist caught up in the turmoil of his darkening time and struggling, sometimes blindly and in error and self-contradiction, to be a force for enlightenment.
A third volume will carry on the narrative of his life and works from 1939 to his death in 1972.
... makes the reader long for the prompt publication of the final volume of what is already an impressive biographical achievement.
Table of Contents:
Preface
List of illustrations
Chronology
Part One: 1921-1932
A Year in Paris, 1921-24
From Rapallo, 1924-1932
Part Two: 1933-1939
A Democrat in Italy, 1933
Things Fall Apart, 1933-37
Ideas of Order, 1937-39
Alien in America
Appendices
Outline of Pound's Le Testament or Villon
A brief history of Le Testament or Villon
Outline of Cavalcanti. A sung dramedy in 3 acts
. 'Huey, God bless him', an unpublished article (1935)
The founding of the Bank of England, & the U. S. National Banks Act
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