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Ezra Pound: Poems & Translations (LOA #144) (Library of America)
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Here in one volume is the biggest and best collection of Pounds poetry (excepting his long poem The Cantos) and translations ever assembled.Ranging from the text of the handmade first collection Hildas Book (a gift to the poet H.D.) to his late translations of Horace, and containing dozens of items previously unavailable, Poems and Translations reveals the diversity and richness of a body of work marked by daring invention and resonant music.In such early volumes as Ripostes, Cathay, Lustra, and Hugh Selwyn Mauberleyas surely as in his later magisterial versions of The Confucian Odes and the Sophoclean dramas Women of Trachis and ElektraPound followed his own directive to make it new, opening fresh formal pathways while exploring the most ancient traditions. Before, during, and after the controversies and catastrophes of his public career (culminating in his long residence in a Washington mental hospital while under indictment for treason), Pound remained capable of rare technical brilliance and indelible lyricism.Here are the lush early lyrics, echoing Browning and the Troubadours; the chiseled free verse of such masterpieces as The Return, Near Perigord, and Homage to Sextus Propertius; the dazzling translations that led Eliot to call Pound the inventor of Chinese poetry for our time. The Chinese verse translations are supplemented by Pounds versions of the Confucian prose textsThe Analects, The Great Digest, and The Unwobbling Pivotwhich he saw as crucial to his literary aims. An extensive chronology offers guidance to Pounds tumultuous life, and detailed notes clarify the many recondite allusions.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nations literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americas best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acidfree paper that will last for centuries.
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