In the winter of 1949, a group of judges — including poets T.S. Eliot and Robert Lowell — met to decide the winner of the prestigious Bollingen Prize for the best book of poetry published in the ...

FYI: As a counterweight to the LOA edition's heft, Sieburth breaks out the oft-taught Pisan Cantos —written while Pound was imprisoned by the U.S. in Italy, published in 1948, and awarded the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Ezra Loomis Pound: Arts and ...

The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound, by Daniel Swift, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 320 pages Ezra Pound is a litmus test as much as he is a poet. His cartoonish ...

The Pound that matters is early Pound, essentially the Pound of the London years. He arrived in London to stay (he had visited earlier) on August 14, 1908 and within a decade or so of that date had ...

Percy Shelley called poets the “unacknowledged legislators of the world.” No poet sought acknowledgment more enthusiastically than Ezra Pound. No poet legislated so ambitiously or disastrously, either ...

Ezra Pound, edited by Richard Sieburth, New Directions, $15.95 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1733-0 Whatever one might think of Pound's legacy—both political and poetical—there's practically no ...

Above the Dock Above the quiet dock in mid night, Tangled in the tall mast’s corded height, Hangs the moon. What seemed so far away Is but a child’s balloon, forgotten after play. T. E. Hulme ...

Robert D. Kaplan’s “Adriatic” takes readers on a political, intellectual and personal tour from Italy to Albania. By Thomas F. Madden A poet who was undone by his own words. By R. O. Blechman “Only ...