Ezra Pound, Italy, and the Cantos

by Massimo Bacigalupo

Book Overview

Ezra Pound lived in Italy spanning six decades (1920s to 1970s) and composed here most of his ambitious American and international epic, The Cantos. He largely employed Italian materials: landscapes, artworks, politics, history, people. Bacigalupo's study approaches Pound's poetry through its principal physical and cultural background proposing a new and rewarding reading of The Cantos as an account of things seen and noted with a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1835538754
• ISBN13: 9781835538753
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Clemson University Press W/ Lup