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Page references throughout are to The Cantos of Ezra Pound (Faber & Faber, London, 1975) whose pagination is the same as that of the New Direction^complete edition of The Cantos issued in the United States. There is no line numbering in any edition of The Cantos. I have provided certain long passages with my own line references for the reader's convenience, and all line references in the text refer to my quoted passages. xi to bring Pound closer to the educated reader at the level of his greatest achievement. The Pisan Cantos, may still be worth a try. Detailed commentary has not been my chief aim. I have attempted it on occasion, but with a chastening sense of how easy it is to go wrong. What has most 1 Pound is less easy. The economic issue, if detached from the Confucianism and neo-pagan Illuminism which were the main components of Pound's eclectic religious outlook, is a red herring. Large and over-active, it does credit to his conscience and good intentions but does not, in isolation, help the reader to grasp the elusive coherence of his achievement. Eliot's religious position, by contrast, implicit in Gerontion and The Waste Land , and gradually unfolding itself in Ash Wednes

Author

Woodward, Anthony, 1932-

Published

2015

Language

EN