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Selected Poems 1908-1969
[Paperback - 1975]
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Category: Literature
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Publisher: Faber And Faber Uk | ISBN: 9780571109074 | Pages: 194
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This selection provides an excellent introduction to Ezra Pound's poetry for the general reader, and for the student of contemporary literature. It takes the place of the pioneer edition edited by T.S. Eliot which was published in 1928.A representative group of early shorter poems is included;Hugh Selwyn Mauberley,CathayandHomage to Sextus Propertiusare printed complete; and there is a selection from theCantosup to and includingDrafts & Fragments(1969).Illustration by Wyndham Lewis

Ezra Pound (1884–1972) was a leading Modernist poet and the driving force behind Imagism and Vorticism.

Timothy Billings is Professor of English and American Literatures at Middlebury College. With Christopher Bush, he edited and translated Victor Segalen’s Stèles / ???? (Wesleyan, 2007), which won the Aldo and Jean Scaglione Prize for Best Translation of a Literary Work. He has also edited and translated Matteo Ricci’s On Friendship: One Hundred Maxims for a Chinese Prince (Columbia, 2009) and is the editor of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost (Internet Shakespeare Editions, University of Victoria).

Christopher Bush is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University and the author of Ideographic Modernism: China, Writing, Media (Oxford, 2010).

Haun Saussy is University Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. He won the René Wellek Prize for Comparative Literature (for the second time) for his most recent book, Translation as Citation: Zhuangzi Inside Out (Oxford, 2018). His book The Ethnography of Rhythm: Orality and Its Technologies (Fordham, 2016) was awarded the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies.

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