Research Catalog

Title

Ezra Pound, poet : a portrait of the man & his work / A. David Moody.

Author

Moody, Anthony David.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007-2015.

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Details

Description

3 volumes : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Poets, American
• Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
• Biography
• Biographies
• Poets, American > 20th century > Biography
• 1900 - 1999

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• Biography.

Note

• Edition statement varies: vol. 2-3: 1st ed.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• V.1. The young genius, 1885-1920. Part 1. 1885-1911. 1 Born in the USA ; Four generations 3 ; The Westons ; A small boy in Wyncote ; Homer ; Isabel ; Cheltenham Military Academy ; The Grand Tour with Aunt Frank ; Suburban prejudice ; XRa ; What he wanted to do ; 2 In a World of Books ; College of Liberal Arts, University of Pennsylvania: 1901-1903 14 ; Hamilton College, Class of '05 ; Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: '05-'07 ; 3 First Poems: 1901-1908 ; Dryad 34 ; Katherine Ruth Heyman ; Aesthetics ; False starts ; A Lume Spento ; 4 Hell and Deliverance ; The gadfly 55 ; Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana ; 5 Outward and Away ; Via Gibraltar and Venice 62 ; 6 London 1908-1910 ; A stiff white collar 68 ; A letter to his mother ; Elkin Mathews ; A Quinzaine for This Yule ; 'People are interested' ; 'The Dawn' and Dorothy ; Personae of Ezra Pound ; Yeats ; Exultations of Ezra Pound ; Ford Madox Hueffer ; The Spirit of Romance ; A tirade on the epic ; 'Our renaissance in the egg' ; 7 Patria Mia ; The exile's mission 127 ; Dorothy ; Canzoni ; Part 2. 1911-1920, London ; 8 Prelude in Paris 153 ; 9 1911-1912: Settling In ; Of heaven and the ground under it 158 ; A passive engagement ; The work of genius ; Ripostes of Ezra Pound ; 'This is where I belong' ; 10 In the Steps of the Troubadours 182 ; 11 Stirring Things Up: 1912-1913 ; Embroidery and vortex 196 ; One thing and another ; Taking on the contemporary ; Making enemies in The New Age ; Making a renaissance in Poetry ; Individualism in The New Freewoman ; The Imagiste vortex ; Odd ends ; 12 Going to War: 1913-1915 ; Spirits at Stone Cottage 236 ; A marriage ; The Blast vortex ; The coming of war ; Poets in a world at war: Cathay ; Finding himself ; 13 Shaping an Intelligence Unit: 1915-1916 ; Caring for Wyndham Lewis and James Joyce 276 ; Lustra of Ezra Pound: the censor censored ; Dialogues at Stone Cottage ; Works and days ; Poems of 1915-16, and the measure of realism ; 'Three Cantos': finding his form ; 14 Into Action: 1917-1918 ; Editor, male, seeks magazine (1912-16) 316 ; Thomas S. Eliot (1914-16) ; The Little Review and the Great War: arrival of new force ; From a letter to his father ; The Little Review and the Great War: the enemy ; His several fronts: chronicle ; 'Langue d'Oc' and Homage to Sextus Propertius ; 15 Goodbye to England: 1919-1920 ; The smell of French asphalt 355 ; The Fourth Canto, and a new poetic ; Public affairs ; Hugh Selwyn Mauberley ; A pair of old shoes ; ' ... out of the dead land' -- v. 2. The epic years, 1921-1939. Part 1. 1921-1932. 1 A year in Paris, 1921-1924 ; 2 From Rapallo, 1924-1932 ; Part 2 1933-1939. 3 A democrat in Italy, 1933 ; 4 Things fall apart, 1933-1939 ; 5 Ideas of order, 1937-1939 ; 6 Alien in America ; Appendices -- v. 3 The tragic years 1939-1972. Part One: 1939 -- 1945. 1 Between Paradise & Propaganda: 1939-40 ; 2 A Dutifully Dissident Exile, 1941 ; 3 In a Web of Contradictions: 1942-43 ; 4 'To Dream the Republic': 1943-44 ; 5 For the Resurrection of Italy: 1944-45 ; Part Two: 1945. 6 Talking to the FBI ; 7 A Prisoner in the Eyes of Others ; 8 'In the mind indestructible': The Pisan Cantos ; Part Three. 9 American Justice ; 10 Giving Cornell his head -- Lunacy at St. Elizabeths ; Part Four: ST ELIZABETHS 1946 -- 1958 ; 10 A Year in the Hell Hole ; 11 Resilience: 1947 -- 50 Histrionics -- 'a awful lot of company' -- No release -- Thrown to wolves -- Courage against cowardice ; 12 The Life of the Mind: 1950 -- 55 ; 13 'Indictment Dismissed': 1956-58 -- The Tale of John Kasper -- The skeleton in the national closest -- 'M' Amour, ma vie' -- The St Elizabeths Cantos (2): Thrones 96-109 de los cantares -- MacLeish gets his 'nol pros' ; 14 Clearing Out ; Part Five: 1958 -- 1972. 15 A Final Testament: 1958 -- 59 ; 16 'You Find Me In Fragments': 1959 -- 62 ; 17 His Sickness & His Wealth: 1962 -- 64 -- Mainly clinical -- The Commitee's agenda ; 18 Afterlife of the Poet: 1965 -- 1972 ; Appendix. The Settlement of the Estate.
• V. 1. The young genius, 1885-1920 -- v. 2. The epic years, 1921-1939 -- v. 3. The tragic years, 1939-1972.

Call Number

JFL 16-21

ISBN

• 9780199215577
• 019921557X
• 9780199215584
• 0199215588
• 9780198704362
• 0198704364
• 9780199571468
• 0199571465

LCCN

2007021413

OCLC

902598360

Author

Moody, Anthony David.

Title

Ezra Pound, poet : a portrait of the man & his work / A. David Moody.

Imprint

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007-2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Table of contents

Chronological Term

1900 - 1999

Research Call Number

JFL 16-21