Cantos (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ezra Pound
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Free verse, Poetry, Epic, Lyric sequence
- Subjects: Culture, Jews or Jewish life, Anti-Semitism, Greed, Money, Capitalism, Jews and Gentiles, Banks, bankers, or banking, Fascism, Anglo-Saxons
Critical Evaluation:
Ezra Pound may be considered one of the most powerful, disturbing, and enigmatic literary figures of the twentieth century. Often his public persona overshadowed his interest in being a poet who would be remembered for his poetry, but part of that was due to Pound’s own unflagging energies and ambitions as an editor, as a friend to writers in exile from America, and as the “foreign correspondent” for Harriet Monroe’s 1912 publication Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. He was responsible for the final version of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land...
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