Inbunden, Engelska, 1990

Personae: Revised Edition: Poetry

Av Lea Baechler, A. Walton Litz, Ezra Pound

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If the invention of literary modernism is usually attributed to James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound, it was Pound alone who provides (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 that 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 movement; today the work stands as one of the classic texts of the twentieth century. Pound scholars Lea Baechler (of Columbia) and A. Walton Litz (Holmes Professor of English Literature at Princeton) have prepared a corrected text and supplied an informative “Note on the Text” explaining both Pound’s original criteria for his selection and the volume’s subsequent history.

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Utgivningsdatum: 1990-04-17
Mått: 147 x 211 x 28 mm
Vikt: 523 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 304
Upplaga: 90002
Förlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780811211208

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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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"As much as any single man, he brought about a conscious change in the art of poetry and both by his practice and persuasion made every translator aware of his craft. Above all, he left in Personae and in the Cantos a body of work that will not die."

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