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From:Southwest Review (Vol. 78, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedRobert Kelly's poem 'The Flowers of Unceasing Coincidence' is a demonstration of the use of paganism in a contemporary long poem. His thematic concerns and technique compliment each other best in this poem. Kelly was a...
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From: The American Poetry Review[(essay date March-April 1996) In the essay below, Pinsky contemplates the social contexts of American poetry in contemporary America, tracing the development of its various manifestations and emphasizing the individual...
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From: Criticism[(essay date spring 1995) In the following essay, Newcomb analyzes the reasons why Millay's work has been marginalized by critics since the mid-twentieth century. Newcomb argues for "a serious, sympathetic consideration"...
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From: The Old Moderns: Essays on Literature and Theory[(essay date 1994) In the following essay, Donoghue takes Poe’s story as a starting point for a brief history of literary responses to the rise of the modern city. He argues that the story’s presentation of the old man...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 32, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWhat did Chinese poetry sound like in 1914 to speakers of English who knew nothing about the Chinese language and had to rely exclusively on translations? It sounded like this. This translation, by Herbert Giles,...
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From: Durrell and the City: Collected Essays on Place[(essay date 2012) In the following essay, Gifford traces modernist influences in The Alexandria Quartet. He posits that although the work’s unconventional shifts in time and point of view align it with modernist...
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From: Boundary 2[(essay date Spring 1995) In the following essay, Moncef examines Pound's disdain for gold as a symbol of evil. According to Moncef, "the malevolent aspect of gold exists in its own right throughout Pound's works;...
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From: Utopian Studies[(essay date 2004) In the essay below, Bizzini depicts The Cantos as Pound's effort to build a utopian literary city and discusses Pound's treatment of various actual cities, including those in which he lived--London,...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 28, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedOn April 28, 2005, a group of writers and scholars left Philadelphia for Utica, New York. The goal of the trip was a conference jointly organized by Steve Yao of Hamilton College and Michael Coyle of Colgate University...
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From: Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship[(essay date 1988) In the following essay, Sicari examines Ezra Pound's Cantos written before the fall of Mussolini and Italian fascism to find evidence of Pound's conception of the prototypical fascist hero.] To...
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From: The Poetic Achievement of Ezra PoundThe vitality of Pound's contribution to the arts before the Great War, and the redirection he gave to poetry during his years in Kensington, are acknowledged. His own poetry, however, has received less unanimous...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 32, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAs Dante long ago recognized--a recognition that Pound as the miglior fabbro is happy to endorse--the troubadour's art is fundamentally international and multilingual. It derives much of its lyric potency through...
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From:Journal of Literary Studies (Vol. 20, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedSummary This article examines the social and cultural function of the criticism of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. To read the criticism of these Modernist poets is to examine the ways in which their poetry is inserted...
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From:Philological Quarterly (Vol. 92, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn March 1941, on the eve of the outbreak of Pacific War, Ezra Pound wrote to his friend, the Japanese poet and critic Kitasono Katsue, proposing that the United States concede Japan the island of Guam, object of...
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From:The Mississippi Quarterly (Vol. 69, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedTHE PURPOSE OF THIS ESSAY IS TO REASSESS THE WORK OF ELIZABETH Madox Roberts and to identify her unique place as a specifically modernist writer. Critics and scholars of American literature have often been preoccupied...
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From: American Poetry[(essay date 1990) In the following essay, Materer probes the mythic unconscious of Merrill's poetry.] You will recall that in the case of the [slip of the tongue] the man was asked how he had arrived at the wrong word...
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From:Italica (Vol. 91, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn October 1958, James Laughlin and Vanni Scheiwiller published in Verona, Italy, a limited edition (two hundred numbered copies) of Ezra Pound's Diptych Rome-London: the book was distributed in the United Kingdom by...
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From:ELH (Vol. 60, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe translation of Chinese poems in Ezra Pound's collection 'Cathay' attempts to inveigle the ordinary Western reader to sympathize and participate in a culture that is strange and unfamiliar. It counterbalances what...
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From: The Southern Review[(essay date autumn 2002) In the following essay, Coley summarizes the events surrounding Pound's selection for the Bollingen Award and gives the opinions of many of the leading literary figures of the period and on...
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From: Irish Theatre in America: Essays on Irish Theatrical Diaspora[(essay date 2009) In this essay, McDiarmid describes the fundraising activities--in Ireland, England, Europe, and the United States--that Yeats and Lady Gregory undertook on behalf of the Abbey Theatre and other Irish...