Personae – The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound Rev (Paper) - Softcover

Pound, Ezra; Baechler, Lea; Litz, A. Walton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081121138X ISBN 13: 9780811211383

Publisher: New Directions, 1990

Synopsis

If the invention of literary modernism is usually attributed to James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, it was Pound alone who provided (in Hugh Kenner's words) "the synergetic presence") to convert individual experiment into an international movement. In 1926 Pound carefully sculpted his body of shorter poems into a definitive collection which would best show the concentration of force, the economy of means, and the habit of analysis that were, to him, the hallmarks of the new style.This collection, where Pound presented himself in a variety of characters or "masks," was called Personae. In 1926, Personae's publication gave solidity to a movement today the work stands as one of the classic texts of the twentieth century. Pound scholars Lea Baechler (of Columbia) and A. Walton Litz (Holmes Professor of English Literature at Princeton) have prepared a corrected text and supplied an informative "Note on the Text" explaining both Pound's original criteria for his selection and the volume's subsequent history.

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Review:

"He brought about a conscious change in the art of poetry."

Book Description:

Personae: The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound, one of the texts upon which modernism was founded, displays some of the classic poems of the twentieth century.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 081121138X
• ISBN 13: 9780811211383
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 304