The Cantos is a long modernist poem by Ezra Pound, written in 109 canonical sections in addition to a number of drafts and fragments added as a supplement at the request of the poem's American publisher, James Laughlin.
The Cantos, collection of poems by Ezra Pound, who began writing these more or less philosophical reveries in 1915. The first were published in Poetry magazine in 1917; through the decades, the writing of cantos gradually became Pound’s major poetic occupation, and the last were published in 1968.
The Cantos Project is dedicated to the research of Ezra Pound's long poem The Cantos
So begins Ezra Pound in 1917. Calling on the ghost of Robert Browning, educating his reader on his motives as he embarks on his personal epic, The Cantos, a "poem to include history," is Pound's "tale of the tribe."
Ezra Pound, edited by Richard Sieburth, New Directions, $15.95 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1733-0 Whatever one might think of Pound's legacy—both political and poetical—there's practically no ...
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Dallas Morning News: Biography: ‘Ezra Pound: Poet, Volume III, The Tragic Years 1939–1972,’ by A. David Moody
Poet Ezra Pound, released in April from a mental institution, gives a Fascist-style salute on his arrival in Naples, Italy. He was accused of treason for broadcasts made in Italy during World War II ...