Pavannes and Divagations

by Ezra Pound

2021-01-03 06:48:06

The canon of Ezra Pound would be incomplete without a representative collection in the master's lighter vein. Pavanes and Divagations seeks to meet this need. Included are Pound's long essay ''Indiscretions,'' one of his rare autobiographical writing... Read more
The canon of Ezra Pound would be incomplete without a representative collection in the master's lighter vein. Pavanes and Divagations seeks to meet this need. Included are Pound's long essay ''Indiscretions,'' one of his rare autobiographical writings, an assortment of facetious verses, his superb translations from the dialogues of Fontenelle, causeries on topics ranging from religion to the mores of moneyed society, as well as a miscellany of editorials, denunciations, and literary masquerades. Pound's barbed wit is displayed here to its best advantage. But more than a simple diversion, this volume presents an important but neglected aspect of the prime shaper of modern poetry in English. Less

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File size8 X 5.2 X 0.8 in
PublisherNew Directions Publishing
Publication date January 17, 1974
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780811205757
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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 Oct 1885 – 1 Nov 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during Worl...

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