Ezra Pound's Early Verse and Lyric Tradition

A Jargoner's Apprenticeship

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Traces the lyricism and musicality in Pound's early verse through to his radical Modernist style. Robert Stark argues that Pound learned how to write poetry more or less as if it was a foreign tongue, a poetic 'jargon' with a unique lexicon, grammar, and even morphology.　 Stark contextualizes Pound's poetic craft by examining his relationship to the Mediaeval and Classical originators of the methods he employs and by considering the practice and criticism of his immediate Victorian and Romantic predecessors. He explores the influence of poets such as François Villon, Guido Cavalcanti, Robert Burns, Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne and Walt Whitman on Pound's lyrical style. For Stark, Pound's poly-vocalism arises out of his interest in dialect and, above all, in the the acoustic qualities of language.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-07-31
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399567213

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Robert Stark is the author of Ezra Pound and Lyric Tradition: A Jargoner's Apprenticeship (Edinburgh University Press, 2012). Ernest Dowson: Lyric Lives – the first full-length, critical work to appear on this neglected, canonical poet – is his latest book, forthcoming from Oxford University Press in November 2023, and he is now preparing a chronological, variorum edition of Dowson's collected works for Edinburgh University Press (projected for 2025). A Middle North, Stark's debut collection of original poetry, appeared in 2014. Since graduating, he has taught Modern Literature in the United States, Europe and throughout the world.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; Chapter One: Poetic Jargon; Chapter Two: ‘Toils Obscure, An’ A’ That’: Romantic and Celtic Influences in ‘Hilda’s Book’; Chapter Three: ‘Opacity is NOT an American Quality’; Chapter Four: ‘Caliban Casts Out Ariel’: Ezra Pound’s Victorian Barbarian; Chapter Five: ‘The Seafarer’ and a ‘Living Tongue’; Chapter Six: Pound Among the Nightingales: From the Troubadours to a Cantabile Modernism; Chapter Seven: Beyond / Formulated Language: The Function of Intensity in Cathay and Lustra; Envoi: ‘Not of One Bird But of Many’; Appendix: ‘Barbarians and Dark Words of God’: Poetic Jargon in Ancient Greek Drama; Works Cited.