Personae: The Shorter Poems
If the invention of literary modernism is usually attributed to James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, it was Pound alone who provided (in Hugh Kenner's words) the synergetic presence) to convert individual experiment into an international movement. In 1926 Pound carefully sculpted his body of shorter poems into a definitive collection which would best show the concentration of force, the economy of means, and the habit of analysis that were, to him, the hallmarks of the new style.This collection, where Pound presented himself in a variety of characters or masks, was called Personae. In 1926, Personae's publication gave solidity to a moveme…
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Weitere Autoren: Baechler, Lea (Hrsg.) / Litz, A. Walton (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-1138-3
- EAN: 9780811211383
- Produktnummer: 9401130
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1990
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.7 cm x D2.1 cm 331 g
- Auflage: 2. A.
- Gewicht: 331
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New Directions has been the primary publisher of Ezra Pound in the U.S. since the founding of the press when James Laughlin published New Directions in Prose and Poetry 1936. That year Pound was fifty-one. In Laughlin's first letter to Pound, he wrote: Expect, please, no fireworks. I am bourgeois-born (Pittsburgh); have never missed a meal. . . . But full of 'noble caring' for something as inconceivable as the future of decent letters in the US. Little did Pound know that into the twenty-first century the fireworks would keep exploding as readers continue to find his books relevant and meaningful.
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