The late cantos of Ezra Pound : composition, revision, publication /

Drawing extensively on material from the archives, The Late Cantos of Ezra Pound explores the textual history of Pound's later verses Section: Rock-Drill (1955) and Thrones (1959). Examining unpublished letters, draft manuscripts and critical essays this book recounts the history of the composi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kindellan, Michael (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
Series:	Historicizing modernism.
Subjects:	Pound, Ezra, > 1885-1972. > Cantos. Cantos (Pound, Ezra) LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: "The Text is Somewhat Exigeant": the Lateness of Pound's Late Cantos
2. "I Have Always Loathed Reading": the Trouble with Philology
3. "To Copy and Amplify": Totalitarian Scholarship in Section: Rock-Drill
4. "No, That Is Not Textual": the Immaterial Language of Thrones
5. "A Butcher's Block for Biographers": On Pound's Quiddity
6. Conclusion: "Ego, Scriptor Cantilenae": Authority Reconsidered
Appendices and Figures
Bibliography
Index.