Ezra Pound and the Career of Modern Criticism

As seasoned scholars with a mature capacity for untangling skeins of fact and weaving narrative, considering the big picture steadily and whole, Coyle and Preda have developed a magnificent achievement making sense of (and offering a very legible map of) this Poundian world and its major driving vortices. Above all, beyond the controversies and gossip, the cliques, the frequent masculinism, the eccentricity and sometime crankishness, they rightly feature the work of scholarship-the courageous and generous achievement of generations of Pound scholars who always moved to a different rhythm, stubborn against the grain of mainstream academia. * MODERNITY * While this study is valuable for retracing the history of modernism's acceptance in the academy, its exhaustive and far-reaching scope also allows one to move freely in the midst of the wider intellectual context surrounding and permeating both Pound Studies and the manifold, controversial aspects of literary criticism both in and out of the academic milieu. * Make It New *

MICHAEL COYLE is Professor of English at Colgate University and has published widely on Pound. ROXANA PREDA is Leverhulme Fellow in American Literature at the University of Edinburgh.

Preface From Wabash to Washington, 1907-1947 A Prize Fight and Institutionalization, 1948-1951 Kenner, Watts, and Professional Attention, 1951-1961 Sailing after Knowledge, 1962-1971 The Pound Era and Its Monumental Companion, 1971-1985 Ezra Pound Studies and the Postmodern Turn, 1980-1990 Reading Ezra Pound in the New Millennium, 1990-2016 The Many Lives of Ezra Pound: Biographies and Memoirs, 1960-2015 Periodicals on Ezra Pound, 1954-2017 Conclusion Chronology of the Bollingen Controversy Bibliography Index