The Genesis of Ezra Pound's CANTOS

Ronald Hush traces the organic development of the poem and demonstrates that what seems to be eccentricity in the Cantos frequently corresponds to the common practice of Pound's contemporaries.

Originally published in 1977.

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Auteur

Ronald L. Bush

Contenu

• FrontMatter,
• CONTENTS,
• INTRODUCTION,
• PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION,
• CHAPTER I. RED HERRINGS,
• CHAPTER II. A FIRST SET OF STRUCTURAL TERMS,
• CHAPTER III. THE GROWTH OF THREE CANTOS,
• CHAPTER IV. TOWARD A NEW NARRATIVE VOICE CHAPTER V STAGES OF REVISION,
• CHAPTER V. STAGES OF REVISION,
• CHAPTER VI. "MURMUR OF OLD MEN'S VOICES",
• Appendix A. A Guide to the Publication History of the Cantos up to and Including 1925's A Draft of XVI. Cantos of Ezra Pound for the Beginning of a Poem of some Length,
• Appendix . The Future Cantos,
• Appendix C. Canto VI as it originally appeared in A Draft of XVI Cantos,
• ABBREVIATIONS,
• GENERAL INDEX,
• INDEX OF POUND'S WORKS,