Ezra Pound and the Spanish World

Viorica Patea is Professor of American Literature at the University of Salamanca, where she teaches American and English literature. Her published books include Entre el mito y la realidad: Aproximación a la obra poética de Sylvia Plath (1989), a study on Whitman, La apología de Whitman a favor de la épica de la modernidad (1999) and T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (2005), forthcoming in a second edition with a new translation, extended notes, and a new introduction. She has edited various collections of essays such as Critical Essays on the Myth of the American Adam (2001) and, together with Paul Scott Derrick, Modernism Revisited: Transgressing Boundaries and Strategies of Renewal in American Poetry (2007). Her edited collection of essays, Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First-Century Perspective (2012) received the Javier Coy Research Award for the best edited book (2013). In addition, Patea is an accomplished translator: from Romanian into English (with Paul Derrick), several editions of the poetry of Romanian poet Ana Blandiana, My Native Land A4 (2014) and Five Books (2021); from Romanian into Spanish, the poetry of Blandiana as well as the poetry of Patrizia de Rachewiltz; and from Romanian into Spanish, an annotated edition of El diario de la felicidad by Nicolae Steinhardt (2007). John Gery is an American poet, critic, collaborative translator, and editor. He has published seven books of poetry, a critical work on the treatment of nuclear annihilation in American poetry, two co-edited volumes of literary criticism and two co-edited anthologies of contemporary poetry, as well as, a co-authored biography and guidebook on Ezra Pound's Venice. Walter Baumann was born in Switzerland and studied at the Universities of Zurich and Aberdeen. His academic teaching career in German Studies started at Toronto University and continued at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. He published on J. W. Goethe, H. Broch, and M. Frisch.

‘This is an insightful, meticulous and wide-ranging study which comprises original criticism on the boundless figure of Pound – the specificity, conciseness and precision of each essay is clearly an asset. Highly illustrative and clearly informative, this collective volume will appeal to anyone interested in Pound and the Spanish tradition, and not only to specialists in the field.’Carles Granel Sales, EPOS

• PrefacePART ONE: EZRA POUND AND THE SPANISH WORLD: ESSAYSI. Introduction 1. “A Dream Spain”: The Legacy of Spain in Pound’s Oeuvre Viorica PateaII. Spanish Beginnings from Averroes to the BaroquePound’s Ibn Rushd (Averroes): The Arabic Contribution to an Alternate History Maria Luisa Ardizzone “The Pale Dawn of Spain”: Pound’s Morphology of Dawn Giuliana Ferreccio The Vitality and Precision of the Poetic Word Onstage: Ezra Pound’s Reflections on Lope de VegaNatalia Carbajosa Pound Lopista vs E.P.: Dissociation from the Spanish Baroque Paula Barba Guerrero III. Spain and/in The CantosRe-Reading Pound and Camões Stephen Wilson Menippean Satire and Carnivalism in Ezra Pound’s Pisan Canto 74 J. Rhett Forman The Congruence of Lope de Vega’s Plays and Noh in The Pisan Cantos Yoshiko Kita Washington Irving’s Alhambra in The Cantos Caterina Ricciardi Pound’s Prado and the “Glimpse of Velázquez” John Gery IV. Pound’s Modernist Iberian ConnectionsPound and Unamuno: The History of a Collaboration Miriam Borham-Puyal Juan Ramón and the Imagists: A Reappraisal of Modernism(o) Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan Lines of Division: Nancy Cunard, Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and the Spanish Civil War Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec Discovering the Mediterranean Sanity: Pound and Hemingway Massimo Bacigalupo V. Echoes of Pound in the Postmodern Spanish WorldPound’s Amulet in Roberto Bolaño’s Novels Emanuele Zoppellari Perale Science and Silence: Reading Antonio Colinas in the Light of Pound’s Theory of the ImageMelania Stancu The Cantos in Translation: The Spanish Variations Leonor María Martínez Serrano Pound and the Novísimo Poets: Three Memoirs A. Brief Chronicle of an Encounter Antonio Colinas B. Pound’s Classics as a Model for the Novísimos Jaime Siles C. Ezra Pound, The Homer of the 21st Century Luis Alberto de Cuenca PART TWO: POUND AND THE SPANISH WORLD: A READERLetter from Pound to Viola Baxter, May 9, 1906Pound’s Postcards to Viola Baxter from Madrid, May 27, 1906Pound Correspondence with the Librarians of the Biblioteca Palacio Real, Madrid, May 28-June 7, 1906Ezra Pound, “Burgos: A Dream City of Old Castile” (1906)Ezra Pound, “Some Notes on Francisco de Quevedo Villegas” (1921)Ezra Pound, Letter to José Vázquez Amaral (facsimile), October 23, 1954José Vázquez Amaral’s Articles on Pound and The Cantos (1968-1975)Letters of Ezra and Dorothy Pound to Juan Ramón Jiménez and Zenobia Camprubí (1948-1956)