Contemporary Literary Criticism


Pound, Ezra (Vol. 112) | Further Reading

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Criticism

Beach, Christopher. "Ezra Pound and Harold Bloom: Influences, Canons, Traditions, and the Making of Modern Poetry." ELH: English Literary History 56, No. 2 (Summer 1989): 463-83.

Compares Pound's modernist theories of literary innovation and influence with those of contemporary literary critic Harold Bloom.

Casilo, Robert. "The Italian Renaissance: Pound's Problematic Debt to Burckhardt." Mosaic 22, No. 4 (Fall 1989): 13-29.

Discusses the influence of historian Jacob Burckhardt's The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy on Pound's conception of Renaissance scholarship, cultural and aesthetic ideals, and historical view of Italian fascism.

Dasenbrock, Reed Way. "Ezra Pound, the Last Ghibelline." Journal of Modern Literature XVI, No. 4 (Spring 1990): 511-32.

Examines Pound's affinity for Mussolini in...

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