The Dance of the intellect
Subtitle: studies in the poetry of the Pound tradition
By: Marjorie Perloff.
Series: Avant-garde and modernism studies
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Pound, Ezra, -- 1885-1972.; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Description: Must poetic form be, as Yeats demanded, "full, sphere-like, single," or can it accommodate the "impurities" Yeats and his Modernist generation found so problematic? Sixty years later, these are still open questions, questions to which Marjorie Perloff addresses herself in the essays collected here.

The first group of essays deals with Pound's own poetics as that poetics related to two of his great contemporaries, Stevens and Joyce, as well as to the visual arts of his day. The second group deals with the more technical aspects of verse and prose. In the last four essays, Perloff takes up broader issues, including the current pessimism about the state of poetry, and the work of experimental poets and conceptual poets.
Notes: First published: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Includes bibliographical references and index.