Product Description

This edition includes a representative group of early shorter poems, much of Pound's major work and a selection from the "Cantos".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15029 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01-22
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 186 pages

From the Back Cover
This selection provides an excellent introduction to Ezra Pound's poetry for the general reader, and for the student of contemporary literature. It takes the place of the pioneer edition edited by T. S. Eliot which was published in 1928. A representative group of early poems is included; ‘Hugh Selwyn Mauberley', ‘Cathay' and ‘Homage to Sextus Propertius' are printed complete; and there is a selection from the ‘Cantos' up to and including ‘Drafts & Fragments' (1969).

Customer Reviews

Selected Poems
This is a good selection from Pound's poetry. It includes a generous selection from his shorter (on the whole, earlier) poetry, including the complete texts of the brilliant _Hugh Selwyn Mauberly_ and of the earlier translations / adaptions _Cathay_ (from the Chinese) and _Homage to Sextus Propertius_ (from the Latin). After these comes a generous selection from the Cantos that goes up to the last volume, published in 1969.

It must be said that Faber's editorial procedures leave a lot to be desired in this book. There is no mention of _who_ selected the poems; dates are put to some of the volumes from which poems are chosen, but not others; there is no first-line index, and for some reason the alpabetical title index is at the beginning of the book. But the selection itself is good; and the poetry -- there's nothing like it elsewhere.