Ezra Pound's Eriugena

Mark Byron is Senior Lecturer in Modern British and American Literature at the University of Sydney, Australia. His publications include Samuel Beckett's Endgame (2007), as editor.

Close reading of Pound's ongoing conversation with Eriugena demonstrates the importance of expanding the parameters of the critical debate. Byron's fluid and engaging prose proves that conscientious and original scholarship of Anglo-American literary modernism's central figure need not be stuffy or turgid. A good resource for Pound enthusiasts as well as specialists. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -- J. Williamson, Pearl River Community CHOICE Deftly orchestrated, rich in archival discoveries, substantial in its preoccupations (philsophical, theological and aesthetic), and argued with agility and nuance, Mark Byron's understanding of a somewhat neglected figure in the Poundian pantheon is powerfully rewarding. The range of learning here is impressive in its understanding of the Carolingian history from which Eriugena emerges as a figure of controversy... A powerful foray into aesthetic and intellectial history... One of the best lessons we have for reading the machinations of the poetry. -- Ian F.A. Bell Journal of American Studies

• 1. Pound's Eriugena: Neoplatonist and Scholar of Greek 2. The Missing Book of the Trilogy 3. Pound's Unwobbling Pivot 4. The Poetics of Exile: Laon to Changsha Bibliography Index