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Personae: Revised Edition: Poetry

Personae: Revised Edition: Poetry

Baechler, Lea
Pound, Ezra
Litz, A. Walton

Hardcover

Series: Revived Modern Classic

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0811211207
ISBN13: 9780811211208
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Apr 17 1990
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.06
Height: 1.15 Width: 5.68 Depth: 8.25
Language: English
If the invention of literary modernism is usually attributed to James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound, it was Pound alone who provides (in Hugh Kenner's words) the synergetic presence to convert individual experiment into an international movement. In 1926, Pound carefully sculpted his body of shorter poems into a definitive collection that would best show the concentration of force, the economy of means, and the habit of analysis that were, to him, the hallmarks of the new style. This collection, where Pound presented himself in a variety of characters or masks, was called Personae. In 1926, Personae's publication gave solidity to a movement; today the work stands as one of the classic texts of the twentieth century. Pound scholars Lea Baechler (of Columbia) and A. Walton Litz (Holmes Professor of English Literature at Princeton) have prepared a corrected text and supplied an informative Note on the Text explaining both Pound's original criteria for his selection and the volume's subsequent history.

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