- Mauberley (1920)
- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
- Cantos: 1, 2, 3, 9, 13, 38
- The River-merchant's Wife: A Letter
- The Garden
- The Coming of War
- Sestina: Altaforte
- Portrait d'une Femme
- In a Station of the Metro
I'm working off the New Directions Paperbook edition of Selected Poems of Ezra Pound, but you should feel free to work from any edition. Be wary of some of the on-line versions of the poems which are not always reliable.
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I had to try three bookstores (not including NDNU) in the area before finally locating one lone copy at the Barnes & Noble in Redwood City. I was frankly surprised by how little of Pound's work these major bookstores carried, considering they all carry works of more obscure and less important poets. I was equally surprised at how little of his work I found in anthologies. The Norton Anthology of Literature treats Pound in an article about imagists and reproduces only "In a Station of the Metro." The Norton Poetry Anthology and the Oxford Anthology carry just a smattering of poems and one or two Cantos. I'm wondering if Pound's political views--he was a fascist and was tried for treason after the Second World War -- might be the reason he is given such short shrift.
Was hoping that we may talk a little bit about imagism, vorticism and ideogrammtic method in our discussion of Pound tonight?
Also having some trouble finding a couple of the cantos (9 and 38?)
Are there lingering questions about Imagism and Vorticism that we didn't get a chance to get to in class?
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