A Guide to the Cantos of Ezra Pound (Persea lamplighter titles) - Hardcover

Cookson, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0892550813 ISBN 13: 9780892550814

Publisher: Persea Books Inc, 1985

Synopsis

Discusses the themes of Pound's major work, explains its foreign phrases, quotations, and allusions, and includes statements made by Pound about his poetry

About this title

Review:

'This seems to me by far the best and most helpful book yet to appear on the Pound Cantos' - John Bayley in Poetry Review'An elegant, imaginative and original Guide for the new reader' - Michael Alexander in the Times Higher Education Supplement

About the Author:

William Cookson was a poet, critic and the founding editor of Agenda, which has since the 1960s championed the work of Ezra Pound, David Jones and Geoffrey Hill among other distinguished modern poets. He is the editor of 'Ezra Pound: Selected Prose 1909-1965' (1973.

About this edition

• Publisher: Persea Books Inc
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0892550813
• ISBN 13: 9780892550814
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 177