Ezra Pound: Poet I: The Young Genius 1885-1920

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This first volume of what will be a full-scale biography presents Ezra Pound as a very determined and energetic young genius--at 15 he told his father "I want to write before I die the greatest poems that have ever been written"--setting out to make his way both as a poet and as a force for civilization in England and America in the years before, during and just after World War I.
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This first volume of what will be a full-scale biography presents Ezra Pound as a very determined and energetic young genius--at 15 he told his father "I want to write before I die the greatest poems that have ever been written"--setting out to make his way both as a poet and as a force for civilization in England and America in the years before, during and just after World War I.
In this lively narrative A. David Moody weaves a story of Pound's early life and loves, his education in America, and his years in London, where he trained himself to become a great poet-learning from W. B.Yeats, Ford Madox Hueffer, and others-and exhorting his contemporaries to abandon Victorian sentimentality and "make it new." Pound was at the center of everything, forming his own Imagiste group, joining with Wyndham Lewis in his Vorticism, championing the work of James Joyce, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, and T. S. Eliot, and constantly on the lookout for new talent as International Editor for Harriet Monroe's Poetry magazine. Moody traces Pound's evolution as a poet from the derivative idealism and aestheticism of his precocious youth to his Cathay," based on the transliterations of the Sineologist Ernest Fenollosa, to the stunningly original Homage to Sextus Propertius and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. By 1920 Pound was established as a force for revolution in poetry and in his critical writing as a brilliant iconoclast who argued against stifling conventions and the economic injustice of the capitalist system.
Ezra Pound: Poet gives us illuminating readings of the major early works and a unforgettable portrait of Pound himself-by turns brilliant, combative, selfless, ambitious-and always fascinating.
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Charles McGrath
In sorting out all Pound's contradictions and complexity, Moody, a professor emeritus at the University of York and the author of a previous book about Eliot, is invaluable. He knows more about Pound's poetry than probably anyone else alive, and supplies careful, detailed readings of all the early books (this volume ends in 1920; a second will cover the years until Pound's death in 1972).
—The New York Times
School Library Journal

In this first volume of what promises to be a monumental biography, Moody (Tracing T.S. Eliot's Spirit) presents a first-of-its-kind study of poet Ezra Pound's (1885-1972) life and works based on a thorough examination of the American literary giant's published and unpublished writings. His purpose, he writes, is to explore Pound's complexity and the "disruptive, regenerative force of his genius." He chronicles Pound's attempts, beginning with his 12-year-long residence in London, to bring about an American renaissance by importing the heritage of Old World culture, and he illustrates how neither the British nor the American literary sets knew what to make of Pound's early work, a new kind of poetry radically departing from the rules of prosody. Moody further discusses Pound's involvement in such movements as imagism and vorticism; his promotion and generous support of fellow writers like T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Wyndham Lewis; his work for such periodicals as Poetry,the Egoist, and the Little Review; and the creation of the early Cantos. A carefully researched and documented study; recommended for academic libraries.
—Denise J. Stankovics Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780199215577
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publication date: 11/24/2007
  • Pages: 544
  • Product dimensions: 9.30 (w) x 6.00 (h) x 1.90 (d)

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A. David Moody is Professor Emeritus of the University of York and the author of the acclaimed Thomas Stearns Eliot: Poet.

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Table of Contents


Illustrations     ix
Preface     xi
Chronology     xiii
1885-1911
Born in the USA
Four generations     3
The Westons
A small boy in Wyncote
Homer
Isabel
Cheltenham Military Academy
The Grand Tour with Aunt Frank
Suburban prejudice
XRa
What he wanted to do
In a World of Books
College of Liberal Arts, University of Pennsylvania: 1901-1903     14
Hamilton College, Class of '05
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: '05-'07
First Poems: 1901-1908
Dryad     34
Katherine Ruth Heyman
Aesthetics
False starts
A Lume Spento
Hell and Deliverance
The gadfly     55
Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana
Outward and Away
Via Gibraltar and Venice     62
London 1908-1910
A stiff white collar     68
A letter to his mother
Elkin Mathews
A Quinzaine for This Yule
'People are interested'
'The Dawn' and Dorothy
Personae of Ezra Pound
Yeats
Exultations of Ezra Pound
Ford Madox Hueffer
The Spirit of Romance
A tirade on the epic
'Our renaissance in the egg'
Patria Mia
The exile's mission     127
Dorothy
Canzoni
1911-1920, London
Prelude in Paris 153
1911-1912: Settling In
Of heaven and the ground under it     158
A passive engagement
The work of genius
Ripostes of Ezra Pound
'This is where I belong'
In the Steps of the Troubadours 182
Stirring Things Up:1912-1913
Embroidery and vortex     196
One thing and another
Taking on the contemporary
Making enemies in The New Age
Making a renaissance in Poetry
Individualism in The New Freewoman
The Imagiste vortex
Odd ends
Going to War: 1913-1915
Spirits at Stone Cottage     236
A marriage
The Blast vortex
The coming of war
Poets in a world at war: Cathay
Finding himself
Shaping an Intelligence Unit: 1915-1916
Caring for Wyndham Lewis and James Joyce     276
Lustra of Ezra Pound: the censor censored
Dialogues at Stone Cottage
Works and days
Poems of 1915-16, and the measure of realism
'Three Cantos': finding his form
Into Action: 1917-1918
Editor, male, seeks magazine (1912-16)     316
Thomas S. Eliot (1914-16)
The Little Review and the Great War: arrival of new force
From a letter to his father
The Little Review and the Great War: the enemy
His several fronts: chronicle
'Langue d'Oc' and Homage to Sextus Propertius
Goodbye to England: 1919-1920
The smell of French asphalt     355
The Fourth Canto, and a new poetic
Public affairs
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
A pair of old shoes
'...out of the dead land'
Abbreviations     411
Notes     421
Acknowledgements     486
Index     492
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