edited by George Bornstein
University of Chicago Press, 1985
Cloth: 978-0-226-06640-0 | Paper: 978-0-226-06642-4
Library of Congress Classification PS3531.O82Z623 1985
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.52

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
"Be influenced by as many great writers as you can," said Ezra Pound. Pound was an "assimilative poet" par excellence, as George Bornstein calls him, a writer who more often "adhered to a . . . classical conception of influence as benign and strengthening" than to an anxiety model of influence. To study Pound means to study also his precursors—Homer, Ovid, Li Po, Dante, Whitman, Browning—as well as his contemporaries—Yeats, Williams, and Eliot. These poets, discussed here by ten distinguished critics, stimulated Pound's most important poetic encounters with the literature of Greece, Rome, China, Tuscany, England, and the United States. Fully half of these essays draw on previously unpublished manuscripts.

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