Readings in the Cantos: Volume 2 (The Ezra Pound Center for Literature)

The three volumes of Readings in the Cantos bring together, in a ground-breaking format, a number of critical readings by world-renowned scholars of the central modernist long poem, The Cantos of Ezra Pound . Each contributor approaches either a single Canto or a defined small group of Cantos in isolation, providing a clear, informative, and interpretive reading that includes an up-to-date assessment of sources and an idea of recent critical approaches. Together the contributors offer a remarkably diverse reading of The Cantos that at the same time demonstrates the coherence of Pound's text. This project offers readings of selected individual Cantos from The Cantos of Ezra Pound provided by renowned Poundians. It is designed to be useful for those new to Pound's epic modernist poem, with each "reading" providing a clear, detailed explanantion of Pound's often complicated poetics and fields of reference. The project will form the most complete resource on The Cantos since Carroll F. Terrell's A Companion to the Cantos of Ezra Pound, adding developed prose readings to the source-hunting of Terrell's project. As well as guiding the new reader, however, these essays also offer individual and often oirignal approaches to the poetry in question, providing a wealth of critical material for those already familiar with The Cantos and pursuing the works of Pound in more depth. The variety in approaches and reading methods displayed here offers numerous strategies for readers of Pound and for readers of modernism in general. This is the second volume of three, and describes 27 Cantos in 22 essays, focusing on work published between 1937 and 1948. The final volume will deal with Cantos published between 1956 and 1969, while the first volume addresses work published between 1917 and 1934. Cover Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction (Richard Parker) 1 Cantos 42–44 (John Gery) 2 Canto 45 (Peter Nicholls) 3 Canto 47 (Massimo Bacigalupo) 4 Canto 49 (Zhaoming Qian) 5 Canto 51 (Mary Ellis Gibson) 6 Canto 52 (Michael Kindellan) 7 Canto 53 (Dorsey Kleitz) 8 Canto 57 (Harry Gilonis) 9 Canto 60 (Akitoshi Nagahata) 10 Canto 61 (Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas) 11 Cantos 64–66 (LeeAnn Derdeyn) 12 Canto 67 (David Ten Eyck) 13 Canto 71 (Roxana Preda) 14 Cantos 72–73 (Caterina Ricciardi) 15 Canto 74 (Sean Pryor) 16 Canto 75 (Mark Byron and Richard Parker) 17 Canto 76 (Henry Mead) 18 Canto 79 (Kristin Grogan) 19 Canto 80 (Ira Nadel) 20 Canto 81 (Ronald Bush) 21 Canto 84 (Alexander Howard) Notes Index