Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano - Softcover

Tytell, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566635594 ISBN 13: 9781566635592

Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc, 2004

Synopsis

Unlike other biographical portraits of Ezra Pound, John Tytell's brilliant and ambitious work offers an interpretive study that boldly confronts the emotional truths and psychological drama that formed this complex and controversial American poet. Neither an apology nor a condemnation, it presents instead a meticulous exploration into the mind and vision of a man who galvanized a generation and challenged an entire literary_and world_establishment. Although he enjoyed little fame in his lifetime, Pound's notoriety and influence were enormous, as he arrogantly slashed away at convention and almost single-handedly brought about the twentieth-century revolution in poetry known as modernism. Ultimately, outrage and scandal turned his art to madness, and Pound's last years saw him fall tragically silent. 'The best and most balanced critical biography of Ezra Pound_Tytell maintains a striking balance between the rambunctious man and the gifted poet and tells his story not as an act of judgment but as a searching inquiry into the madness of art.'_Leon Edel 'A fascinating figure_and Tytell has written a fascinating book...a vivid, sensitive portrait that will go a good way toward clarifying, for all of us, the enigma that was Pound. '_Washington Post Book World 'Exhaustively researched and admirably balanced...[Tytell] has produced an important and a valuable study of literary modernism and its infamous 'midwife."_Cleveland Plain Dealer

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Review:

"The best and most balanced critical biography of Ezra Pound - Tytell maintains a striking balance between the rambunctious man and the gifted poet and tells his story not as an act of judgment but as a searching inquiry into the madness of art." - Leon Edel; "A fascinating figure - and Tytell has written a fascinating book...a vivid, sensitive portrait that will go a good way toward clarifying, for all of us, the enigma that was Pound." - Washington Post Book World; "Exhaustively researched and admirably balanced....[Tytell] has produced an important and a valuable study of literary modernism and its infamous 'midwife.' " - Cleveland Plain Dealer"

Synopsis:

Neither an apology nor a condemnation, Mr. Tytell presents instead a meticulous exploration of the mind and vision of a man who galvanized a generation, challenged an entire literary-and world-establishment, and almost single-handedly brought about the twentieth-century revolution in poetry known as modernism. The best and most balanced critical biography of Ezra Pound.-Leon Edel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1566635594
• ISBN 13: 9781566635592
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384