Selected Poems of Ezra Pound

196 Pages·1957·15.219 MB·English

by  Ezra Pound

SELECTED
POEMS
EZRA
POUND
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THE SELECTED POEMS OF EZRA POUND
BY EZRA POUND
ABC OF READING
THECANTOSOFEZRAPOUND(NUMBERS 1-117& 120)
THE CLASSIC NOH THEATRE OF JAPAN
COLLECTEDEARLYPOEMSOFEZRAPOUND
CONFUCIUS (ENGLISH VERSIONS)
CONFUCIUS TO CUMMINGS (WORLD POETRY ANTHOLOGY)
EZRA POUND AND MUSIC
EZRA POUND AND THE VISUAL ARTS
GAUDIER-BRZESKA
GUIDE TO KULCHUR
LITERARY ESSAYS
LOVEPOEMSOFANCIENTEGYPT (TRANSLATED WITH NOEL STOCK)
PAVANNES AND DIVAGATIONS
PERSONAE
POUND/FORD: THE STORY OF A LITERARY FRIENDSHIP
POUND/JOYCE: LETTERS & ESSAYS
SELECTED CANTOS
SELECTED LETTERS 1907-1941
SELECTEDPROSE 1909-1965
SELECTED POEMS
THE SPIRIT OF ROMANCE
TRANSLATIONS
WOMEN OF TRACHIS (SOPHOKLES)
POUND
EZRA
SELECTED POEMS
A Neiu Directions Paperbook
Copyright 1926, 1934, 1937, 1940, 1948, 1949 by Ezra Pound. Copyright
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1956, 1957 by Ezra Pound. Library of Congress Catalog Card
Number: 57-8603. (isbn: 0-8112-0162-7) All rights reserved. Except
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retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher.
The Publisher is grateful to Hugh Kenner and Hayden Carruth for
suggestions in regard to the texts in this edition, and to Eva Hesse
and John Espey for textual corrections. First published as New
Directions Paperbook 66, 1957. Manufactured in the United States of
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CONTENTS
BIOGRAPHY V1I1
A Ballad of the Mulberry Road 60
--Alba 36
Alba from "Langne d'Oc" 42
Amities
33
Ancient Music 38
—An
Object 18
—A
Pact 27
Apparuit 22
April 29
Arides
33
A Song of the Degrees 3i
A
Virginal 23
-Ballad of the Goodly Fere 9
"Blandula, Te?iella, Vagula" '3
Brennbaum 66
Cantos 96
Cino
1
Coda
34
Coitus 36
Dance Figure 28
Difference of Opinion with Lygdamus 82
Envoi (1919) 70
Epitaphs 39
Erat Hora 14
Exile's Letter 56
From Homage to Sextus Propertius 78
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley ) 61
^-ln a Station of the Metro 35
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31
Lament of the Frontier Guard 55
Les Millwin 30
Mauberley {1920) 71
Medallion 77
Meditatio 34
Mr. Nixon 67
Na Audiart
3
Near Perigord 42
Of Jacopo del Sellaio 23
Pagan?s> November 8 41
P/awfc for the Young English King 12
Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin 54
Portrait d'une Femme 16
Salutation 26
Salvationists 32
Sestina: Altaforte 7
ilSiena mi fe'; disfecemi Maremma" 66
Song of the Bowmen of Shu 49
.!Laking Leave of a Friend 59
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Tame Cat 37
Tenzone 24
"Tfo /4ge Demanded" 73
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The Beautiful Toilet 50
~ The Coming of War: Actaeon 35
—The Encounter 36
-—The Garden 26
The Garret 25
The House of Splendour 14
The Jewel Stairs' Grievance 55
The Lake Isle 38
The Rest 29
- The Return 24
(±/~The River-merchant's Wife: A Letter 52
The River Song 51
—
The Seafarer 18
The Spring 27
The Tea Shop
37
The Tomb of Akr Caar 15
—
The Tree 6
The White Stag 7
Villanelle: The Psychological Hour 39
Villonaud for this Yule 5
Women of Trachis 183
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BIOGRAPHY
Born, Hailey, Idaho, 30 Oct. 1885.
Educ. U. of Penn. and Hamilton. PhB. '05. M.A. '06.
Published. 1908. Venice; A Lume Spento.
1909, Mathews, London. Personae, Exultations.
Thereaftersome40 volumes,in Londontill 1920.
N. York i92o-'30.
1930 onwards, with Faber, London, and in U.S.
1918 began investigation of causes of war, to oppose same.
Lectured in the Universita Bocconi, Milan, 1931, on Jefferson
and Van Buren.
From 1932 continual polemic in two languages, moving from
Social Credit to Gesellism.
Obtaining imprint in Italy of Social Credit and Gesellite
doctrines, comparing them with Catholic canonist theory
and local practice.
1939 first visit to U.S. since 1910 in endeavour to stave off
war. D.Litt, honorary, from Hamilton.
1940 after continued opposition obtained permission to use
Rome radio for personal propaganda in support of U.S.
Constitution, continuing after America's official entry into
the war only on condition that he should never be asked to
say anything contrary to his conscience or contrary to his
duties as an American Citizen. Which promise was faithfully
observed by the Italian Government.
E.P. (1949)