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The Cantos of Ezra Pound (New Directions Paperbook) (original 1948; edition 1996)

by Ezra Pound

Series: The Cantos (complete)

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For this edition of one of the great landmarks in twentieth-century poetry two previously uncollected cantos have been added, and some passages from other cantos, omitted from earlier printings, restored to the text. The additional cantos, numbered LXXII and LXXIII, were written by Ezra Pound in Italian, during the collapse of Italy at the end of the war. They belong in the sequence between the John Adams and the Pisan cantos.… (more)
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Title:The Cantos of Ezra Pound (New Directions Paperbook)
Authors:Ezra Pound
Info:New Directions (1996), Paperback, 896 pages
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The Cantos of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound (1948)

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  therebelprince | Oct 24, 2023 |
Is it worth reading, or is it a load of horseshit?

Yes.

In my opinion there was a strong strain of horseshit in old Ez, and this is not just because he was at certain points of his life a lousy anti-Semite. When he bothered to leave his ear ON, he had one of the more exquisite ears of any poet; however, he often chose (at least to me it "feels like" he chose) to turn his ear OFF, and leave whatever poetry was coming out of him slathered with blubs and slubs of undigested ... stuff. And the stuff chokes out whatever music there might have been (no, I don't think all poetry has to strive for a quality of music, but ...). In The Cantos, this gets really bad in the "Adams" sections of the work.

More to come -- I'm going to start through this again soon.
  tungsten_peerts | Feb 21, 2023 |
Easily the most complicated poem I have ever read. Enjoyable but a guide is necessary to reading if you wish to maximize the experience. Very original and raw. ( )
  DanielSTJ | May 5, 2019 |
One of the inescapable works of the Twentieth Century, for all of its difficulty; it left poetry as a field permanently changed and enriched, even if Pound's own approach was so specific to himself that he has no true successors, but only a vast field of those whom he influenced. ( )
1 vote jsburbidge | Apr 8, 2016 |
Phew. This is something. I feel like I've run a marathon.

This is a wholly absorbing set of poetry. Approximately 120 cantos which start off reminiscing about the Renaissance, going through all eras and ages of history, citing letters, missives, pamphlets, rages. History as poetry, a grand tour. Chinese characters, intricate, representing ideas and names and figures.

The chant, USURA, elicits rage and greed and war, and the titanic struggles against corruption and ideology which have consumed this past century and which still rage in this one.

As much I find Pound the man abhorrent and mad, but as for Pound the poet, he is a force. I will reread this. ( )
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For this edition of one of the great landmarks in twentieth-century poetry two previously uncollected cantos have been added, and some passages from other cantos, omitted from earlier printings, restored to the text. The additional cantos, numbered LXXII and LXXIII, were written by Ezra Pound in Italian, during the collapse of Italy at the end of the war. They belong in the sequence between the John Adams and the Pisan cantos.

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