Ezra Pound 
Selected Poems of Ezra Pound [EPUB ebook] 

Ezra Pound has been called ‘the inventor of modern poetry in English.’

The verse and criticism which he produced during the early years of the twentieth century very largely determined the directions of creative writing in our time; virtually every major poet in England and America today has acknowledged his help or influence. Pound’s lyric genius, his superb technique, and his fresh insight into literary problems make him one of the small company of men who through the centuries have kept poetry alive—one of the great innovators.
This book offers a compact yet representative selection of Ezra Pound’s poems and translations. The span covered is Pound’s entire writing career, from his early lyrics and the translations of Provençal songs to his English version of Sophocles’
Trachiniae. Included are parts of his best known works—the Chinese translations, the sequence called
Hugh Selwyn Mauberly, the
Homage to Sextus Propertius.
The Cantos, Pound’s major epic, are presented in generous selections, chosen to emphasize the main themes of the whole poem.

Circa l’autore

New Directions has been the primary publisher of Ezra Pound in the U.S. since the founding of the press when James Laughlin published New Directions in Prose and Poetry 1936. That year Pound was fifty-one. In Laughlin’s first letter to Pound, he wrote: “Expect, please, no fireworks. I am bourgeois-born (Pittsburgh); have never missed a meal. . . . But full of ‘noble caring’ for something as inconceivable as the future of decent letters in the US.” Little did Pound know that into the twenty-first century the fireworks would keep exploding as readers continue to find his books relevant and meaningful.