Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano
by John Tytell
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Explores the mind and vision of the controversial American poet who almost singlehandedly brought about the twentieth-century revolution in poetry known as modernism.Tags
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Since when are you an economist, pal? The last I knew you were a fuckin' bassoon player. Hemingway in a 1933 letter to Pound.
Just before the holidays I bought a stack of copies of this less than regal biography in an ongoing attempt to keep a reading group afloat. We all are good friends, yet we all have lives and egos; social media has afforded all the willing a platform and thus an online reading group appears as it is: so 1999.
John Tytell appears to have a cut and pasted a modestly comprehensive view of this divisive literary figure. There is no speculation about Pound's eccentric behavior, his contradictions and his beaming generosity. There is really no life in this portrait, just a list of names and an a exhaustive bibliography. show more This is likely closer to a 2 star text, though I did glean benefit from those who orbited in wonky arabesques of influence from St. Ezra the Blackshirt. show less
Just before the holidays I bought a stack of copies of this less than regal biography in an ongoing attempt to keep a reading group afloat. We all are good friends, yet we all have lives and egos; social media has afforded all the willing a platform and thus an online reading group appears as it is: so 1999.
John Tytell appears to have a cut and pasted a modestly comprehensive view of this divisive literary figure. There is no speculation about Pound's eccentric behavior, his contradictions and his beaming generosity. There is really no life in this portrait, just a list of names and an a exhaustive bibliography. show more This is likely closer to a 2 star text, though I did glean benefit from those who orbited in wonky arabesques of influence from St. Ezra the Blackshirt. show less
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John Tytell is author of Naked Angels: The Lives and Literature of the Beat Generation, Reading New York, and Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano. He has taught modern American literature at Queens College since 1963.
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- Ezra Pound
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Biography & Memoir, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 811.52 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American poetry 20th Century 1900-1945
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- PS3531 .O82 .Z8687 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1900-1960
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