The Cantos (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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- Author: Ezra Pound
- Type of Work: Long poem
- 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
Pound began writing the Cantos in 1915, published the first ones in 1917, published his first collection in 1925, and continued on them for most of the rest of his long life. He finally abandoned them after fifty-three years of effort. The Cantos are his most notable work, crammed with allusions, learning, splendid poetry, musical notations, Chinese ideograms, bitter invective and insults, baffling transitions and private jokes, and characters from Pound's personal life as well as from world history. They form an immensely long work, and the Cantos have caused...
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Ezra Pound (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Ezra Pound (Poetry)Canto 1 (Poetry)Canto 4 (Poetry)Canto 29 (Poetry)Canto 49 (Poetry)Canto 74 (Poetry)Canto 81 (Poetry)Canto 116 (Poetry)
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