The Cantos
Cantos, The,long, fluid body of poetry by Ezra Pound. Begun with the publication of the first three segments in Quia Pauper Amavi (1919), the work occupied Pound for most of the rest of his life. Succeeding volumes adding to the work are A Draft of XVI Cantos …for the Beginning of a Poem of Some Length (1925), A Draft of Cantos XVII to XXVII (1928), A Draft of XXX Cantos (1933), Eleven New Cantos, XXXI–XLI (1934), The Fifth Decad of Cantos (1937), Cantos LII–LXXI (1940), The Pisan Cantos (1948)—a particularly unified segment of ten sections based on Pound's incarceration in an Italian prisoner-of-war camp, in which he views himself as a romantic hero whose sensibility will bring order to a world of chaos, Section: Rock-Drill, 85–95 de los Cantares (1956), Thrones; 96–109 de los Cantares (1959). The writing begun in 1915 was finally collected in The Cantos of Ezra...
[The entire page is 405 words long]
Join eNotes
Over 3,500 study guides, question and answer forums, literature criticism, reference content, and much more!
Oxford University Press Titles
