Pound's Cantos

by Peter Makin

Book Overview

"Peter Makin's book is very good... . One of its greatvirtues is that it doesn't try to minimize how difficult The Cantos is, and always will be."--Donald Davie, London Review of Books."Peter Makin... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801843715
• ISBN13: 9780801843716
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

The Electric Godhead in the Fine and Small

A remarkable introduction to Ezra Pound. Makin explains some of the underlying structures that order the Cantos--periplous, ideogram, fugue, the 'repeat in history'--and gives concise readings of individual sections that helped my understanding enormously. He does an especially good job of connecting Pound's theory of money to his views on sex and creativity. Makin manages to be critical of Pound while treating his ideas with verve and sympathy; the writing is colloquial, witty and jargon-free. I enjoyed the Cantos much more after reading this short, effective study.