Category: Livres anglais et étrangers,Literature & Fiction,World Literature
The Cantos of Ezra Pound Details
Since the 1969 revised edition, the Italian Cantos LXXII and LXXIII (as well as a 1966 fragment concluding the work) have been added. Now appearing for the first time is Pound's recently found Eglish translation of Italian Canto LXXII.
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This barely legible (on its own - to be read with Terrell's "Companion to the Cantos of Ezra Pound") text is to be heard, read, seen, spoken aloud. It is a monument of poetry, a guide for later poets and also a link with the rest of humanity's literary history, encompassing literature from Homer to Dante and more modern art. Though reading The Cantos will take a lifetime, it is incomparable experience to embark on such a quest, because of the breadth of references - economics, politics, history, philosophy, art etc. - it alludes to, paraphrases, or rewrites.
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