The Cantos of Ezra Pound

Synopsis

The cantos of ezra pound is the most important epic poem of the twentieth century. Delmore schwartz said about the cantos: "they are one of the touchstones of modern poetry. " william carlos williams said "[pound] discloses history by its odor, by the feel of it―in the words; fuses it with the words, present and past, to make his cantos. Make them. " since the 1969 revised edition, the italian cantos lxxii and lxxiii (as well as a 1966 fragment concluding the work) have been added. Now appearing for the first time is pound's recently found eglish translation of italian canto lxxii.