Ezra Pound and Poetic Influence

The Official Proceedings of the 17th International Ezra Pound Conference, held at Castle Brunnenburg, Tirolo di Merano
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-90-420-1523-4
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 51, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 626 g

Reihe: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft

This collection of twenty essays investigates a series of different aspects of poetic influence in relation to the major modernist poet, Ezra Pound. The volume commences with five essays on matters to do with translation and poetic influence, which situate Ezra Pound as an important transitional figure between 19th-century and 20th-century translation strategies. The next five essays consider different influences on Pound’s poetry, and introduce the reader to new research in a variety of areas, including how specific Chinese cultural artefacts inform his poetry. The following five essays explore Pound’s influence on some of his major contemporaries, such as Eugenio Montale and Charles Olson, and also (through the reading he gave her as a girl) on his daughter, Mary de Rachewiltz. The concluding five essays exemplify different approaches to the thorny issue of Pound and politics, and end with two diametrically opposed interpretations of Pound’s political / poetic thought. The collection will be of great interest to scholars of Ezra Pound and of modern to postmodern poetry; but it will also serve as a useful and lively introduction to some of the debates within Pound scholarship to students coming to his work for the first time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Dennis, Helen M.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. William PRATT, “To Have Gathered from the Air a Live Tradition”: Pound’s Poetic Legacy
2. David GORDON, “The River-Merchant’s Wife”: after 80 years an update
3. Milne HOLTON, Poets and Gaol-Birds: Pound, Lowell, and Villon
4. Helen M. DENNIS, The Translation Strategies of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ezra Pound and Paul Blackburn
5. Roxana PREDA, The Broken Pieces of the Vessel: Pound and Cavalcanti
6. Diana COLLECOTT, “This pother about the Greeks”: Hellenism and Anti-Hellenism in 1914
7. Stefano M. CASELLA, Ezra Pound and Cunizza da Romano: Fragments of an Unfinished Epic Poem
8. Leon SURETTE, Ezra Pound and Richard Hovey
9. Zhaoming QIAN, Pound and Chinese Art in the British Museum Era_
10. Naikan TAO, Canto IV and the “Peach-Blossom-Fountain” Poetic
11. Burton Hatlen, Pound’s Pisan Cantos and the Origins of Projective Verse
12. Hélène AJI, Jerome Rothenberg Reading Ezra Pound
13. Massimo BACIGALUPO, Pound and Montale
14. Tony LOPEZ, Pound and Postmodern British Poets
15. Evelyn HALLER, Willa Cather’s Shadows on the Rock and Ezra Pound’s Daughter, Mary
16. Richard TAYLOR, Towards a Reading Text of The Cantos
17. Michael FAHERTY, Defeated But Not Destroyed: the Prison Poems of Ezra Pound and Wilfred Scawen Blunt
18. Ted BLAKE, America’s Lord Haw-Haw: The Trial of Ezra Pound in the Popular Press
19. Scott EASTHAM, Modernism contra Modernity: the ‘case’ of Ezra Pound
20. William McNAUGHTON, The Secret History of St. Elizabeths
Notes on contributors
Select Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Helen M. Dennis is Deputy Chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literary at the University of Warwick. Her publications include: A New Approach to the Poetry of Ezra Pound: through the Medieval Provençal Aspect (1996), Willa Cather and European Cultural Influences, (1996) She has published various essays on gender in American literature and culture, and is currently developing her website on North American Women Writers. She is a regular reviewer for the Journal of American Studies. As female head of household, she is the parent of three adolescent children.