'76: One World and the Cantos of Ezra Pound

by Forrest Read

Book Overview

Read's revolutionary work postulates that there is a hidden key to Pound's lifework, a hermetic coherence created from a pagan calendar that Pound devised and published in 1922 and from the Great Seal and Constitution of the United States. From these Read extrapolates an elaborate combination of heraldry, numerology, and geometry that he applies to Pound's entire poetic work. Discussing each canto separately, Read shows that the designs, paradigms,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807814555
• ISBN13: 9780807814550
• Release Date: November 1981
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"