Ezra pound and poetic influence : : the official proceedings of the 17th International Ezra Pound Conference held at Castle Brunnenburg, Tirolo di Merano / / edited by Helen M. Dennis.

• Superior document: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 51
• TeilnehmendeR: Dennis, Helen May, 1951-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Brill Rodopi,, [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Series: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 51.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This collection of twenty essays investigates a series of different aspects of poetic influence in relation to the major modernist poet, Ezra Pound. The volume commences with five essays on matters to do with translation and poetic influence, which situate Ezra Pound as an important transitional figure between 19th-century and 20th-century translation strategies. The next five essays consider different influences on Pound's poetry, and introduce the reader to new research in a variety of areas, including how specific Chinese cultural artefacts inform his poetry. The following five essays explore Pound's influence on some of his major contemporaries, such as Eugenio Montale and Charles Olson, and also (through the reading he gave her as a girl) on his daughter, Mary de Rachewiltz. The concluding five essays exemplify different approaches to the thorny issue of Pound and politics, and end with two diametrically opposed interpretations of Pound's political / poetic thought. The collection will be of great interest to scholars of Ezra Pound and of modern to postmodern poetry; but it will also serve as a useful and lively introduction to some of the debates within Pound scholarship to students coming to his work for the first time.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- 1. William PRATT, "To Have Gathered from the Air a Live Tradition": Pound's Poetic Legacy -- 2. David GORDON, "The River-Merchant's Wife": after 80 years an update -- 3. Milne HOLTON, Poets and Gaol-Birds: Pound, Lowell, and Villon -- 4. Helen M. DENNIS, The Translation Strategies of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ezra Pound and Paul Blackburn -- 5. Roxana PREDA, The Broken Pieces of the Vessel: Pound and Cavalcanti -- 6. Diana COLLECOTT, "This pother about the Greeks": Hellenism and Anti-Hellenism in 1914 -- 7. Stefano M. CASELLA, Ezra Pound and Cunizza da Romano: Fragments of an Unfinished Epic Poem -- 8. Leon SURETTE, Ezra Pound and Richard Hovey -- 9. Zhaoming QIAN, Pound and Chinese Art in the British Museum Era_ -- 10. Naikan TAO, Canto IV and the "Peach-Blossom-Fountain" Poetic -- 11. Burton Hatlen, Pound's Pisan Canto s and the Origins of Projective Verse -- 12. Hélène AJI, Jerome Rothenberg Reading Ezra Pound -- 13. Massimo BACIGALUPO, Pound and Montale -- 14. Tony LOPEZ, Pound and Postmodern British Poets -- 15. Evelyn HALLER, Willa Cather's Shadows on the Rock and Ezra Pound's Daughter, Mary -- 16. Richard TAYLOR, Towards a Reading Text of The Cantos -- 17. Michael FAHERTY, Defeated But Not Destroyed: the Prison Poems of Ezra Pound and Wilfred Scawen Blunt -- 18. Ted BLAKE, America's Lord Haw-Haw: The Trial of Ezra Pound in the Popular Press -- 19. Scott EASTHAM, Modernism contra Modernity: the 'case' of Ezra Pound -- 20. William McNAUGHTON, The Secret History of St. Elizabeths -- Notes on contributors -- Select Bibliography.