... The verse sounds as free as a finch twittering in the dips of its flight. And just as each li... more ... The verse sounds as free as a finch twittering in the dips of its flight. And just as each line has its various rhythm, so each sonnet uses a different rhyme scheme ... Ezra Pound is matching Cavalcanti's early freshness with a color lifted from the early freshness of English poetry. ...
Ezra Pound is remembered today as much for his modernist poetry as for his vocal support of Musso... more Ezra Pound is remembered today as much for his modernist poetry as for his vocal support of Mussolini and, before WWII, fascism. During the Depression, he corresponded frequently with monetary reformers, economic historians, and journalists in the United States, Great Britain, and Italy. This annotated edition of many of Pound's letters from the period reveal his passionate efforts to effect global economic change. They provide a contemporary, albeit subjective insight into the debates raging among orthodox and radical economists during the 1930s. Pound's support for such new economic theories as social credit and free economy lay behind his hopes that economic reforms could alleviate the evils of poverty and prevent global war. "Ezra Pound's Economic Correspondence, 1933-1940" provides compelling new insights into a number of the most sensitive and controversial issues in Pound studies, including the way economic beliefs were mirrored in his poetry; his attitu...
... The verse sounds as free as a finch twittering in the dips of its flight. And just as each li... more ... The verse sounds as free as a finch twittering in the dips of its flight. And just as each line has its various rhythm, so each sonnet uses a different rhyme scheme ... Ezra Pound is matching Cavalcanti's early freshness with a color lifted from the early freshness of English poetry. ...
... The verse sounds as free as a finch twittering in the dips of its flight. And just as each li... more ... The verse sounds as free as a finch twittering in the dips of its flight. And just as each line has its various rhythm, so each sonnet uses a different rhyme scheme ... Ezra Pound is matching Cavalcanti's early freshness with a color lifted from the early freshness of English poetry. ...
Ezra Pound is remembered today as much for his modernist poetry as for his vocal support of Musso... more Ezra Pound is remembered today as much for his modernist poetry as for his vocal support of Mussolini and, before WWII, fascism. During the Depression, he corresponded frequently with monetary reformers, economic historians, and journalists in the United States, Great Britain, and Italy. This annotated edition of many of Pound's letters from the period reveal his passionate efforts to effect global economic change. They provide a contemporary, albeit subjective insight into the debates raging among orthodox and radical economists during the 1930s. Pound's support for such new economic theories as social credit and free economy lay behind his hopes that economic reforms could alleviate the evils of poverty and prevent global war. "Ezra Pound's Economic Correspondence, 1933-1940" provides compelling new insights into a number of the most sensitive and controversial issues in Pound studies, including the way economic beliefs were mirrored in his poetry; his attitu...
... The verse sounds as free as a finch twittering in the dips of its flight. And just as each li... more ... The verse sounds as free as a finch twittering in the dips of its flight. And just as each line has its various rhythm, so each sonnet uses a different rhyme scheme ... Ezra Pound is matching Cavalcanti's early freshness with a color lifted from the early freshness of English poetry. ...
I am a contributing editor for The Cantos Project, ed. Roxana Preda et al., which aims to produce... more I am a contributing editor for The Cantos Project, ed. Roxana Preda et al., which aims to produce a hypertext edition of the Cantos of Ezra Pound, selections of which will be freely available online.
Make It New is the digital quarterly of the Ezra Pound Society launched in May 2014. In February ... more Make It New is the digital quarterly of the Ezra Pound Society launched in May 2014. In February 2015 it received its own dedicated website.
The Cantos Project platform was created in the summer of 2014 and launched on Pound's birthday on... more The Cantos Project platform was created in the summer of 2014 and launched on Pound's birthday on 30 October.
This is the letter I sent to the Ezra Pound Society after finishing a searchable table of the 237... more This is the letter I sent to the Ezra Pound Society after finishing a searchable table of the 237 Chinese characters in The Cantos of Ezra Pound. The table can be found on The Cantos Project website under "Resources" in the main menu. I explain to society members the principles underlying my design of the table and the benefits that Pound research can draw from it.
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