Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

Ezra Loomis Pound (October 30, 1885 – November 1, 1972) was an American poet and critic. His most famous work includes The Cantos and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley.1

Works

Poetry

  • A Lume Spento (1908)
  • A Quinzaine for This Yule (1908)
  • Personae (1909)
  • Exultations (1909)
  • Provenca (1910)
  • Canzoni (1911)
  • Ripostes of Ezra Pound (1913)
  • Personae and Exultations of Ezra Pound (1913)
  • Canzoni and Ripostes of Ezra Pound (1913)
  • Lustra of Ezra Pound (1916)
  • Quia Pauper Amavi (1918)
  • The Fourth Canto (1919)
  • Umbra (1920)
  • Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920)
  • Poems, 1918-1921 (1921)
  • A Draft of XVI Cantos (1925)
  • Personae: The Collected Poems of Ezra Pound (1926)
  • Selected Poems (1928)
  • A Draft of the Cantos 17-27 (1928)
  • A Draft of XXX Cantos (1930)
  • Homage to Sextus Propertius (1934)
  • Eleven New Cantos: XXXI-XLI (1934)
  • Alfred Venison’s Poems: Social Credit Themes (1935) Under pseudonym The Poet of Titchfield Street
  • The Fifth Decade of Cantos (1937)
  • Cantos LII-LXXI (1940)
  • A Selection of Poems (1940)
  • The Pisan Cantos (1948)
  • The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1948)
  • Selected Poems (1949)
  • Personnae: The Collected Poems of Ezra Pound (1950)
  • Seventy Cantos, Faber (1950)
  • Section Rock-Drill, 85-95 de los Cantares (1955)
  • Thrones: 96-109 de los Cantares (1959)
  • The Cantos (1-109) (1964)
  • The Cantos (1-95) (1965)
  • A Lume Spento, and Other Early Poems (1965)
  • Selected Cantos (1967)
  • Drafts and Fragments: Cantos CX-CXVII (1968)
  • From Syria: The Worksheets, Proofs, and Text (1981)
  • The Collected Early Poems of Ezra Pound (1982)
  • Diptych Rome-London (1994)
  • Early Poems (1996)
  • Ezra Pound: Poems and Translations (2004)

Prose

  • The Spirit of Romance (1910)
  • Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir Including the Published Writings of the Sculptor and a Selection from His Letters (1916)
  • Noh; or, Accomplishment: A Study of the Classical Stage of Japan (1916) With Ernest Fenollosa
  • Pavannes and Divisions (1918)
  • Instigations of Ezra Pound, Together with an Essay on the Chinese Written Character by Ernest Fenollosa (1920)
  • Indiscretions (1923)
  • Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony (1924)
  • Imaginary Letters (1930)
  • How to Read (1931)
  • ABC of Economics (1933)
  • ABC of Reading (1934)
  • Make It New (1934)
  • Social Credit: An Impact (1935)
  • Jefferson and/or Mussolini (1935)
  • Polite Essays (1937)
  • Culture (1938)
  • What Is Money For? (1939)
  • Carla da Visita (1942)
  • L’America, Roosevelt e le Cause della Guerra Presente (1944)
  • Introduzione alla Natura Economica degli S.U.A. (1944)
  • Oro e Lavoro (1944)
  • Orientamenti (1944)
  • “If This Be Treason…” (1948)
  • Patria Mia (1950)
  • Literary Essays of Ezra Pound (1954)
  • Lavoro ed Usura (1954)
  • Brancusi (1957)
  • Pavannes and Divagations (1958)
  • Impact: Essays on Ignorance and the Decline of American Civilization (1960)
  • Selected Prose, 1909-1965 (1973)
  • Ezra Pound and Music: The Complete Criticism (1977)
  • “Ezra Pound Speaking”: Radio Speeches of World War II (1978)
  • Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts (1980)
  • A Walking Tour in Southern France: Ezra Pound among the Troubadors (1992)
  • Machine Art and Other Writings: The Lost Thought of the Italian Years (1996)

Letters

  • The Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941 (1950)
  • EP to LU: Nine Letters Written to Louis Untermeyer (1963)
  • Pound/Joyce: The Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce (1967)
  • Letters to Ibbotsom, 1935-1952 (1979)
  • Letters to John Theobald (1981)
  • Pound-Ford, the Story of a Literary Friendship: The Correspondence between Ezra Pound and Ford Madox Ford and Their Writings about Each Other (1982)
  • Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear: Their Letters, 1909-1914 (1984)
  • Pound-Lewis: The Letters of Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis (1985)
  • Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky (1987)
  • Pound the Little Review: The Letters of Ezra Pound to Margaret Anderson (1988)
  • The Letters of Ezra Pound to Alice Corbin Henderson (1993)
  • Ezra Pound and James Laughlin: Selected Letters (1994)
  • Ezra Pound and Senator Bronson Cutting: A Political Correspondence, 1930-1935 (1995)
  • Pound/Cummings: The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and E. E. Cummings (1996)
  • Pound/Williams: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams (1996)
  • Ezra and Dorothy Pound: Letters in Captivity, 1945-1946 (1998)
  • I Cease Not to Yowl: Ezra Pound’s Letters to Olivia Rossetti Agresti (1998)

Translations

  • The Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti (1912)
  • Selections from Collection Yvette Guilbert (1912)
  • Cathay (1915)
  • Certain Noh Plays of Japan (1916)
  • Twelve Dialogues of Fontenelle (1917)
  • The Troubadour Sings (1920) With Agnes Bedford
  • The Natural Philosophy of Love (1922)
  • To Hio: The Great Learning (1928)
  • Confucius: Digest of the Analects (1937)
  • Italy’s Policy of Social Economics, 1930-1940 (1941)
  • Ta S’eu Dai Gaku Studio Integrale (1942)
  • The Great Digest [and] The Unwobbling Pivot (1951)
  • Analects (1951)
  • The Translations of Ezra Pound (1953)
  • The Classic Anthology, Defined by Confucius (1954)
  • Pensieri sull’amore (1956)
  • Moscardino (1956)
  • Women of Tiachis (1956)
  • Rimbaud (1957)
  • Love Poems of Ancient Egypt (1962) With Noel Stock

See also

External Links

References

1. “Ezra Pound.” Encyclopedia Britannica. Accessed July 29, 2020.

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