9. Ezra Pound
Modern Poetry (ENGL 310) with Langdon Hammer The lecture introduces the poetry of Ezra Pound. Tensions in Pound s personality and career are considered, particularly in terms of his relationships with other poets and his fascism and anticapitalism. The poem The Seafarer is examined as a quintessentially Poundian project in its treatment and translation of poetic forms. The first Canto of his epic project, The Cantos, is analyzed as a meditation on the process of expressing and engaging with history and
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