EZRA POUND'S ADAMS CANTOS by David Ten Eyck ( 9781441100498 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

EZRA POUND'S ADAMS CANTOS

By:

David Ten Eyck

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

1441100490

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9781441100498

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Publisher:

CONTINUUM PUBLISHING CORPORATION

Pub. date:

25 October, 2012

Series:

Historicizing Modernism

Pages:

208

Description:

Presents a study of Ezra Pound's poetic innovations and treatment of American history in "The Cantos". This title explores the extent to which Pound's poetry changed in response to his reading of seventeenth-century American History and the social climate of the pre-war period.

Synopsis:

Ezra Pound transformed his style of poetry when he wrote The Adams Cantos in the 1920s. But what caused him to rethink his earlier writing techniques? Grounded in archival material, this study explores the extent to which Pound's poetry changed in response to his reading of 17th-century American History and the social climate of the pre-war period.Drawing on the Ezra Pound papers, David Ten Eyck documents the changes to Pound's documentary techniques, establishing a chronology of the composition of The Cantos. His close readings of specific passages, set against the interwar years, allow Ten Eyck to gain insights into Pound's 1930s political and social criticism. Through references to the annotated copy of The Works of John Adams, he explores Pound's engagement with Adams at the expense of Thomas Jefferson: a figure formally at the heart of his previous work. Ultimately, this contextual and archival study uses John Adams and America to unlock the fascist beliefs and the later poetry of Ezra Pound.

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Continuum Publishing Corporation

Prizes:

Winner of Ezra Pound Society Book Award 2013

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