Ezra Pound
Birth date: October 30, 1885
Died: November 01, 1972
Ezra Pound's Books
Alphabetical List of Titlesfrom Personae (1908, 1909, 1910)--Cino--Na Audiart--Villonaud for this Yule--The Tree--Sestina: Altaforte--Ballad of the Goodly Fere--Planh for the Young English King--"Blandula, Tenulla, Vagula"--Erat Hora--The House of Splendour--La Fraisne--A Villonaud: Ballad of the Gi...
Ezra Pound (1913) Ezra Pound (1885 – 1972) had his fingers in many pies, some of which were hot enough to burn him badly. One of these pies was the translation of poetry into English. Over his lifetime he published translations from at least 10 different languages, though of some of these, like Ch...
I'm using this as the nearest edition to the iPad app from Faber and Touch Press, which is spectacular.
I can say I liked some of it, and disliked a lot of it. Still, I'll tip the balance in the favor of three, and not two, stars, because what I liked, I liked a lot (Though to be fair, what I disliked, I disliked a lot, as well. But because I respect the man's language, imagery, erudition, daring, and...
Poor Guido Cavalcanti. First, his BFF Dante immortalizes him in a work of genius that will be studied and footnoted for centuries to come, but also kind of strongly implies that he is following his father to Hell. (The language in Canto X is ambiguous.) Then he gets an English-language poet champ...
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