Sean Pryor‘s “Particularly Dangerous Feats: The Difficult Reader of the Difficult Late Cantos” explores the relationship between the reader and Ezra Pound’s late cantos. The article, which deals with the pedagogical concerns of Pound as expressed by The Cantos, naturally arose “from the always strange but stimulating experience of trying to teach Pound,” as Pryor [...]
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Preview of Paideuma 36: Sean Pryor
Posted in Announcements, Ezra Pound, Paideuma, tagged Ezra Pound, Pound, Sean Pryor on July 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Preview of Paideuma 36: Robert Stark
Posted in Announcements, Ezra Pound, Paideuma, tagged Allan Ramsay, Ezra Pound, James Whitcomb Riley, Pound, Robert Burns, Robert Stark on July 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Robert Stark’s “‘Toils Obscure, / An’ A’ That’: Romantic and Celtic Influences in Hilda’s Book,” takes a look at Ezra Pound’s chewy jargon by examining his predecessors, most notably Robert Burns, Allan Ramsay, and James Whitcomb Riley. While Pound’s “odd spellings are usually calculated…to estrange the reader,” Stark views Pound’s archaisms in Hilda’s Book as [...]
Il Rebus Pound
Posted in Ezra Pound, tagged Antonio Carioti, Billitteri, Carla Billitteri, CasaPound, Corriere della Sera, Ezra Pound, Luca Gallesi, Mary de Rachewiltz, Marzio Breda, Piero Sanavio, Pound on April 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From EPOUND-L, the Ezra Pound Discussion List (hosted by the University of Maine), comes a link to an April 14th story in Corriere della Sera concerning Ezra Pound’s politics. The article is framed as a debate between two Italian Poundians, Luca Gallesi and Piero Sanavio, but the real antagonists are CasaPound (Pound House), a center [...]
ABC of the Tea Party Movement
Posted in Ezra Pound, tagged Ezra Pound, John H. Richardson, Pound, Tea Party Movement on March 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There are so many different Ezra Pounds: the expatriate poet, founder of Imagism, redactor of The Waste Land, explicator of troubadours — exponent of Social Credit, Vivaldi, Chinese ideogram — secretary to Yeats, servant to Mussolini — a poet half Futurist, half Pre-Raphaelite — translator, composer, editor, pedagogue, critic … and sometime crank. It’s in [...]
