The Cantos

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Cantos
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Ezra Pound
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:832
Dimensions(mm): Height 195,Width 130
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780571382279
ClassificationsDewey:811.52
Audience
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Undergraduate
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Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
NZ Release Date 4 April 2023
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The Cantos of Ezra Pound is one of the great landmarks in twentieth-centurypoetry. This Fourth Collected edition of 1987 includes two previously uncollectedcantos, and some passages from other cantos, omitted from earlierprintings, restored to the text. The additional cantos, numbered LXXII andLXXIII, were written by Ezra Pound in Italian, during the collapse of Italy atthe end of the war.. They belong in the sequence between the John Adams andthe Pisan cantos.

Author Biography

Ezra Pound was born in 1885 in Hailey, Idaho. He came toEurope in 1898 and settled in London, where he was to meetYeats, Eliot, Ford, Hulme and Gaudier-Brzeska. In 1920 hemoved to Paris, and later to Rapallo. His acquaintances bynow included Joyce, Hemingway, Brancusi, Picabia,Cocteau, Antheil and C. H. Douglas. During the SecondWorld War he broadcast over Rome Radio - for which,eventually, he was tried for treason in Washington. He wascommitted to a hospital for the insane, where he was heldfor thirteen years. He was released in 1958 and returned toItaly, dying in Venice in 1972.

Reviews

''The best of Pound's writing - and it is in the Cantos - will last as long asthere is any literature.'' - Ernest Hemingway