Ezra Pound : poet : a portrait of the man and his work /

Moody, Anthony David.

Ezra Pound : poet : a portrait of the man and his work / A. David Moody. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, (c)2007-<2015>. - 1 online resource (3 volumes) : illustrations.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The young genius, 1885-1920. -- 1885-1911. -- Born in the USA -- Four generations -- The Westons -- A small boy in Wyncote -- Homer -- Isabel -- Cheltenham Military Academy -- The Grand Tour with Aunt Frank -- Suburban prejudice -- XRa -- What he wanted to do ; -- In a World of Books -- College of Liberal Arts, University of Pennsylvania: 1901-1903 -- Hamilton College, Class of '05 -- Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: '05-'07 ; -- First Poems: 1901-1908 -- Dryad -- Katherine Ruth Heyman -- Aesthetics -- False starts -- A Lume Spento ; -- Hell and Deliverance -- The gadfly -- Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana ; -- Outward and Away -- Via Gibraltar and Venice -- London 1908-1910 -- A stiff white collar -- A letter to his mother -- Elkin Mathews -- A Quinzaine for This Yule -- 'People are interested' -- 'The Dawn' and Dorothy -- Personae of Ezra Pound -- Yeats -- Exultations of Ezra Pound -- Ford Madox Hueffer -- The Spirit of Romance -- A tirade on the epic -- 'Our renaissance in the egg' ; -- Patria Mia -- The exile's mission -- Dorothy -- Canzoni ; -- 1911-1920, London ; -- Prelude in Paris 153 ; -- 1911-1912: Settling In -- Of heaven and the ground under it -- A passive engagement -- The work of genius -- Ripostes of Ezra Pound -- 'This is where I belong' ; -- In the Steps of the Troubadours 182 ; -- Stirring Things Up: 1912-1913 -- Embroidery and vortex -- One thing and another -- Taking on the contemporary -- Making enemies in The New Age -- Making a renaissance in Poetry -- Individualism in The New Freewoman -- The Imagiste vortex -- Odd ends ; -- Going to War: 1913-1915 -- Spirits at Stone Cottage -- A marriage -- The Blast vortex -- The coming of war -- Poets in a world at war: Cathay -- Finding himself ; -- Shaping an Intelligence Unit: 1915-1916 -- Caring for Wyndham Lewis and James Joyce -- Lustra of Ezra Pound: the censor censored -- Dialogues at Stone Cottage -- Works and days -- Poems of 1915-16, and the measure of realism -- 'Three Cantos': finding his form ; -- Into Action: 1917-1918 -- Editor, male, seeks magazine (1912-16) -- Thomas S. Eliot (1914-16) -- The Little Review and the Great War: arrival of new force -- From a letter to his father -- The Little Review and the Great War: the enemy -- His several fronts: chronicle -- 'Langue d'Oc' and Homage to Sextus Propertius ; -- Goodbye to England: 1919-1920 -- The smell of French asphalt -- The Fourth Canto, and a new poetic -- Public affairs -- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -- A pair of old shoes -- '...out of the dead land' -- The epic years, 1921-1939. -- 1921-1932. -- A year in Paris, 1921-1924 ; -- From Rapallo, 1924-1932 ; -- 1933-1939. -- A democrat in Italy, 1933 ; -- Things fall apart, 1933-1939 ; -- Ideas of order, 1937-1939 ; -- Alien in America ; Appendices -- The tragic years 1939-1972. V. 1. The young genius, 1885-1920 -- volume 2. The epic years, 1921-1939 -- volume 3. The tragic years 1939-1972.



9780191058974


Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.


Poets, American--20th century--Biography.


Electronic Books.

PS3531 / .E973 2007