Ezra Pound The Solitary Volcano

Name: Ezra Pound The Solitary Volcano
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ISBN: 9780385198707

ISBN-10: 0385198701

ISBN-13: 9780385198707

Edition: N/A

Authors: John Tytell

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Unlike other biographical portraits of Ezra Pound, John Tytell’s brilliant and ambitious work offers an interpretive study that boldly confronts the emotional truths and psychological drama that formed this complex and controversial American poet. Neither an apology nor a condemnation, it presents instead a meticulous exploration into the mind and vision of a man who galvanized a generation and challenged an entire literary—and world—establishment. Although he enjoyed little fame in his lifetime, Pound’s notoriety and influence were enormous, as he arrogantly slashed away at convention and almost single-handedly brought about the twentieth-century revolution in poetry known as modernism.…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/3/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

John Tytell is author of Naked Angels: The Lives and Literature of the Beat Generation, Reading New York, and Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano. He has taught modern American literature at Queens College since 1963.