Ezra Pound Among the Poets: Homer, Ovid, Li Po, Dante, Whitman, Browning, Yeats, Williams, Eliot

by George Bornstein

Book Overview

"Be influenced by as many great writers as you can," said Ezra Pound. Pound was an "assimilative poet" par excellence, as George Bornstein calls him, a writer who more often "adhered to a&. . . classical conception of influence as benign and strengthening" than to an anxiety model of influence. To study Pound means to study also his precursors-Homer, Ovid, Li Po, Dante, Whitman, Browning-as well as his contemporaries-Yeats, Williams, and Eliot. These...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226066401
• ISBN13: 9780226066400
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.