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A Lume Spento consists of 45 poems. [9]A Lume Spento is replete with allusions to works which had influenced Pound, including Provençal and late Victorian literatures. Pound adopts Robert Browning's technique of dramatic monologues, and as such he "appears to speak in the voices of historical or legendary figures". [5]
The opening of Canto LXXXII marks a return to the camp and its inmates. This is followed by a passage that draws on Pound's London memories and his reading of the Pocket Book of Verse. Pound laments his failure to recognise the Greek qualities of Swinburne's work and celebrates Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Rudyard Kipling, Ford, Whitman, Yeats and others.
ABC of Reading [1] is a book by the 20th-century Imagist poet Ezra Pound published in 1934. In it, Pound sets out an approach by which one may come to appreciate and understand literature (focusing primarily on poetry). Despite its title the text can be considered as a guide to writing poetry.
Comparatively, a volume titled "selected poems" often includes a small but not definitive selection of poems by a poet or editor drawn from several of the poet's collections. [2] A poetry anthology differs in concept because it draws together works from multiple poets chosen by the anthology's editor.
One of the poets Pound "saved", Guido Cavalcanti, would later become a common persona for Pound to adopt in his poetry. [20] The book includes numerous partial translations of Romance poems, described as "merely exegetic". [21] Pound was critical of contemporary translators, whom he viewed as "obfuscating" the poets by treating works as artifacts.
Ripostes is the first collection in which Pound moves toward the economy of language and clarity of imagery of the Imagism movement, and was the first time he used the word "Imagiste." Of its 25 poems, "Salve Pontifex" had appeared in A Lume Spento , and eight others had appeared in magazines. [ 2 ]
Pound opens ABC of Reading with the following pronouncement: . The proper METHOD for studying poetry and good letters is the method of contemporary biologists, that is careful first-hand examination of the matter, and continual COMPARISON of one 'slide' or specimen with another.
Cathay (1915) is a collection of classical Chinese poetry translated into English by modernist poet Ezra Pound based on Ernest Fenollosa's notes that came into Pound's possession in 1913. At first Pound used the notes to translate Noh plays and then to translate Chinese poetry to English, despite a complete lack of knowledge of the Chinese ...