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Title

New selected poems and translations / Ezra Pound ; edited and annotated with an afterword by Richard Sieburth ; with essays by T.S. Eliot and John Berryman.

Author

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972

Publication

New York, NY : New Directions Pub. Corp., c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sieburth, Richard
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

xxi, 391 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

An essential collection of the author's poetry is newly expanded and annotated, with essays by Richard Sieburth, T. S. Eliot, and John Berryman.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 > Criticism and interpretation
• 1900-1999
• Poetry
• American poetry > 20th century
• Poets, American > 20th century

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• "New Directions paperbook original (NDP1185)."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Poems 1908-1912. From A Lume Spento (1908). The Tree -- La Fraisne -- Cino -- Na Audiart -- From A Quinzaine for This Yule (1908). Histrion -- From Personæ (1909). In Durance -- From Exultations (1909). Sestina: Altaforte -- Piere Vidal Old -- Ballad of the Goodly Fere -- Planh for the Young English King -- From Canzoni (1911). Sonnet: Chi e questa? -- "Blandulla, Tenulla, Vagula" -- Erat Hora -- Rome -- Translations and Adaptations from Heine -- The Flame -- Au Salon -- From Ripostes (1912). The Seafarer -- The Plunge -- N.Y. -- A Girl -- The Picture --Portrait d'une Femme -- Sub Mare -- Dōria -- Apparuit -- The Return -- To Whistler, American --
• Poems 1913-1915. From Lustra (1916). Tenzone -- The Garret -- The Garden -- Ortus -- Salutation the Second -- Commission -- A Pact -- In a Station of the Metro -- April -- Gentildonna -- The Rest -- Les Millwin -- Alba -- The Bath Tub -- Arides -- The Encounter -- Simulacra -- Coitus -- Liu Ch'e -- Fan-Piece, For Her Imperial Lord -- Ts'ai Chi'h -- Epitaphs -- "Ione, Dead the Long Year" -- Papyrus -- Ime rrō -- Provincia Deserta -- Image from d'Orleans -- The Spring -- The Coming of War: Actæon -- The Gypsy -- The Game of Chess -- Ancient Music -- Et Faim Saillir les Loups des Boys -- The Tea Shop -- Phyllidula -- Shop Girl -- Another Man's Wife -- Poem: Abbreviated from the Conversation of Mr. T. E. H. --
• Cathay(1915). Song of the Bowmen of Shu -- The Beautiful Toilet -- The River Song -- The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter -- Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin -- The Jewel Stairs' Grievance -- Lament of the Frontier Guard -- Exile's Letter -- Four Poems of Departure -- Separation on the River Kiang -- Taking Leave of a Friend -- Leave-Taking Near Shoku -- The City of Choan -- South-Folk in Cold Country -- Sennin Poem Kakuhaku -- A Ballad of the Mulberry Road -- Old Idea of Choan by Rosoriu -- To-Em-Mei's "The Unmoving Cloud" --
• Poems 1915-1918. Near Perigord -- Villanelle: The Psychological Hour -- Fish and the Shadow -- Pagani's, November 8 -- The Lake Isle -- Impressions of Francois-Marie Arouet (de Voltaire) -- Cantico del Sole -- L'Aura Amara -- Alba -- Avril -- From Mœurs Contemporaines -- Homage to Sextus Propertius (1918/19) -- Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (1920) -- The Cantos (1925-1969). From A Draft of XXX Cantos (1930). Canto I -- Canto II -- Canto III -- Canto IV -- Canto VII -- Canto IX -- Canto XIII -- Canto XIV -- Canto XVI -- Canto XVII -- Canto XX -- From Canto XXX -- From Eleven New Cantos XXXI-XLI (1934). Canto XXXI -- From Canto XXXVI -- Canto XXXVIII -- From The Fifth Decad of Cantos (1937). Canto XLV -- Canto XLVII -- Canto XLIX -- From Cantos Lll-LXXl (1940). From Canto LII -- From Canto LIII -- Canto LXX -- From The Pisan Cantos (1948). From Canto LXXIV -- From Canto LXXVI -- From Canto LXXIX -- From Canto LXXX -- From Canto LXXXI -- From Canto LXXXIII -- From Section: Rock-Drill de Los Cantares (1955). Canto XC -- From Canto XCI -- From Canto XCII -- From Canto XCIII -- From Thrones de Los Cantares (1959). From Canto XCIX -- From Drafts and Fragments of Canto CX-CXVII (1969). From Canto CXII -- Canto CXIII -- From Canto CXV -- Canto CXVI -- Notes for CXVII et seq. --
• Translations 1954-1964. From The Classic Anthology Defined by Confucius (1954). "Hid! Hid!" -- "Lies a dead deer" -- "Rabbit goes soft-foot" -- "Hep-Cat Chung" -- Je Bois dans Mon Verre -- "Lonely pear tree" -- "Chariots, rank on rank" -- "Pick a fern" -- Huang Niao -- "Flies, blue flies" -- "Folk worn out" -- Attributed to the Earl of Fan -- "Great hand" -- Choruses from Sophokles' Women of Trachis (1956). From Translations (1964). Rimbaud: "Cabaret Vert" -- "Comedy in Three Caresses" -- "Anadyomene" -- "Lice-Hunters" -- From Conversations in Courtship -- Catullus: "XXVI" -- "LXXXV" -- Horace: "Ask not Ungainly" -- "By the Flat Cup" -- "This Monument Will Outlast" -- La Marquise de Boufflers: "Air: Sentir avec Ardeur" --
• Notes -- Appendix. Editor's Afterword: Selecting Pound / by Richard Sieburth -- Introduction: 1928 / by T. S. Eliot -- The Poetry of Ezra Pound / by John Berryman.

ISBN

• 9780811217330 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• 0811217337 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2010016065

OCLC

• 601098633
• SCSB-11515033

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library