Ezra Pound, Popular Genres, and the Discourse of Culture

by Michael Coyle

In 1917, having begun the long poem that would prove his life's work, Ezra Pound affirmed that "the ultimate goal of scholarship is popularization." Few scholars subsequently have noticed this aim without finding it merely ironic or dismissing it as an early foible. Yet, as Michael Coyle demonstrates, Pound made similar assertions throughout his career, and his affirmation informs most of his work, including the Cantos. Coyle begins by examining T...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271014210
• ISBN13: 9780271014210
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"