Ezra Pound's Adams Cantos

by David Ten Eyck

Overview

A study of Ezra Pound's poetic innovations and treatment of American history in The Cantos.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441100498
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/29/2012
Series:	Historicizing Modernism , #9
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

David Ten Eyck teaches Modernism and poetry at the University of Lorraine, France. He is currently co-editing a new critical edition of Pound's Pisan Cantos and, in addition to his work on Pound he has written articles on 20th-century writers such as David Jones, James Joyce, John Berryman and Philip Larkin.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface \ 1. ‘Including History': The Evolution of Ezra Pound's Documentary Method \ 2. The Development and Composition of the John Adams Cantos \ 3. Reading Pound's ‘Adams Paideuma' \ 4. The John Adams Cantos and Pound's Social Criticism of the 1930s \ 5. Representations of the American Republic in the Washington Cantos \ Bibliography \ Index

Editorial Reviews

Without insisting that [The Adams Cantos] are always as successful as the best of Pound's other work, Ten Eyck shows that they are much more successful, and much more interesting, than they can seem. As such, Ezra Pound's Adams Cantos represents an invaluable contribution to Pound studies. The book also opens up new opportunities for thinking about the poetry of the 1930s, modernist poetry more generally, and the histories of found poetry and documentary poetics.” —Sean Pryor, University of New South Wales, Modernism/Modernity

From the Publisher

Without insisting that [The Adams Cantos] are always as successful as the best of Pound's other work, Ten Eyck shows that they are much more successful, and much more interesting, than they can seem. As such, Ezra Pound's Adams Cantos represents an invaluable contribution to Pound studies. The book also opens up new opportunities for thinking about the poetry of the 1930s, modernist poetry more generally, and the histories of found poetry and documentary poetics.

Sean Pryor

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