Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: March 1, 1968
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780811201575
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Other prose: 19th century; Poetry; Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Poetics; Essays; Addresses, essays, lectures; Literary Collections / Essays; History and criticism; Addresses and essays
Description: "For this definitive collection of Pound's Literary Essays, his friend (and English editor) T. S. Eliot chose material from five earlier volumes: Pavannes and Divisions (1918), Instigations (1920), How to Read (1931), Make It New (1934), and Polite Essays (1937). 33 pieces are arranged in three groups: "The Art of Poetry," "The Tradition," and "Contemporaries." Eliot wrote in his introduction: "I hope that this volume will demonstrate that Pound's literary criticism is the most important contemporary criticism of its kind . . perhaps the kind we can least afford to do without . . . the refreshment, the revitalization and ‘making new' of literature in our time.""--Publisher's description.