Companion to the Cantos of Ezra Pound

Terrell, Carroll F.

ISBN 10: 0520082877 / ISBN 13: 9780520082878

Published by University of California Press, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Companion to the Cantos of Ezra Pound

Publisher: University of California Press

Publication Date: 1993

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: As New

Edition: 2nd Edition

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Synopsis:

The Companion is a major contribution to the literary evaluation of Pound's great, but often bewildering and abstruse work, The Cantos. Available in a one-volume paperback edition for the first time, the Companion brings together in conveniently numbered glosses for each canto the most pertinent details from the vast body of work on the Cantos during the last thirty years. The Companion contains 10,421 separate glosses that include translations from eight languages, identification of all proper names and works, Pound's literary and historical allusions, and other exotica, with exegeses based upon Pound's sources. Also included is a supplementary bibliography of works on Pound, newly updated, and an alphabetized index to The Cantos.

Review:

"This admirable handbook should be welcomed by all serious students of modern poetry because a clear understanding of that poetry cannot be had without some appreciation of Pound's monumental but baffling "Cantos."--"Yeats Eliot Review