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    A Study Guide for Ezra Pound's "The Cantos"
    A Study Guide for Ezra Pound's "The Cantos"
    A Study Guide for Ezra Pound's "The Cantos"
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    A Study Guide for Ezra Pound's "The Cantos"

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    A Study Guide for Ezra Pound's "The Cantos," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Epics for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Epics for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 20, 2016
    ISBN9781535835640
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      A Study Guide for Ezra Pound's "The Cantos" - Gale

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      The Cantos

      Ezra Pound

      1917–1968

      Introduction

      The Cantos is Ezra Pound's most significant contribution to world literature. The poem was published in various parts over a span of five decades and during the twentieth century tended to be read in parts. During the same years, Pound was better known for his short poems, his theoretical writings and manifestoes, and his turbulent personal history. Nonetheless, The Cantos documents the rise, prominence, and fall of literary styles and poetry from various western and Asian cultures and spoke to a generation of artists across a range of media. Pound was perhaps the central figure in the development of modernism, in literature, sculpture, and music, and many of his enduring concerns and artistic innovations are present in The Cantos, both as prefigurations and reminiscences of the heady days of the 1920s and 1930s.

      The sections of The Cantos were published in different countries, languages, and presses. An incomplete description of the serial publication is given here and follows information provided by the American publisher New Directions.

      The first three cantos appeared in Poetry magazine in 1917 and then were significantly changed for their first appearance in a book entitled A Draft of XVI Cantos, which appeared in 1925. A Draft of XXX Cantos appeared in 1930; Eleven New Cantos in 1934, and The Fifth Decad XLII—LI (the Leopoldine cantos) in 1937. Cantos LII—LXXI (the China cantos and the Adams cantos) appeared in 1940. (In 1944 and 1945, Pound wrote LXXII and LXXIII in Italian; these poems, known as the Italian Cantos, were added to the revised complete edition [1987].) The Pisan Cantos LXXIV–LXXXIV appeared in 1948. Section: Rock-Drill de los Cantares LXXXV–XCV was published in 1956, and Thrones de los Cantares XCVI–CIX in 1959. The remaining parts and fragments were published as Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX–CXVII in 1969. In the United States New Directions published numerous editions; The Cantos of Ezra Pound (Cantos 1–117) appeared in 1970. Several complete editions appeared after that, for example, Richard Sieburth's edition Ezra Pound: Poems and Translations Library of America, 2003), which presents the complete oeuvre. Similarly, various helpful guides have appeared, for example, William Cookson's A Guide to the Cantos of Ezra Pound (Persea, 2002).

      Author Biography

      One of the most significant literary figures of the twentieth century, Ezra Loomis Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho, in 1885. His family soon moved to the suburbs of Philadelphia, where Pound

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