Ezra Pound's Adams Cantos [Hardcover]

A study of Ezra Pound's poetic innovations and treatment of American history in The Cantos.

Series Editors' Preface \ 1. Including History': The Evolution of Ezra Pound's Documentary Method \ 2. The Development and Composition of the John Adams Cantos \ 3. Reading Pound's Adams Paideuma' \ 4. The John Adams Cantos and Pound's Social Criticism of the 1930s \ 5. Representations of the American Republic in the Washington Cantos \ Bibliography \ Index

Without insisting that [The Adams Cantos] are always as successful as the best of Pound's other work, Ten Eyck shows that they are much more successful, and much more interesting, than they can seem. As such, Ezra Pound's Adams Cantos represents an invaluable contribution to Pound studies. The book also opens up new opportunities for thinking about the poetry of the 1930s, modernist poetry more generally, and the histories of found poetry and documentary poetics. Sean Pryor, University of New South Wales, Modernism/Modernity