Selected Poems 1908-1969

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Selected Poems 1908-1969
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Ezra Pound
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:192
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 130
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780571109074
ClassificationsDewey:811.52
Audience
Primary & Secondary Education
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 22 January 2004
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This selection provides an excellent introduction to Ezra Pound s poetry for the general reader, and for the student of contemporary literature. It takes the place of the pioneer edition edited by T. S. Eliot which was published in 1928. A representative group of early poems is included; Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, Cathay and Homage to Sextus Propertius are printed complete; and there is a selection from the Cantos up to and including Drafts & Fragments (1969).

Author Biography

Ezra Pound was born in 1885 in Hailey, Idaho. He came to Europe in 1898 and settled in London, where he was to meet Yeats, Eliot, Ford, Hulme and Gaudier-Brzeska. In 1920 he moved to Paris, and later to Rapallo. His acquaintances by now included Joyce, Hemingway, Brancusi, Picabia, Cocteau, Antheil and C. H. Douglas. During the Second World War he broadcast over Rome Radio - for which, eventually, he was tried for treason in Washington. He was committed to a hospital for the insane, where he was held for thirteen years. He was released in 1958 and returned to Italy, dying in Venice in 1972.His main publications include The Cantos (I-CXVII), Collected Shorter Poems, Translations, The Confucian Odes, Literary Essays, Guide to Kulchur; Selected Prose and ABC of Reading.