Cantico del Sole
Ezra Pound, "Cantico del Sole" from Personae, copyright 1926 by Ezra Pound. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.
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Poet Ezra Pound 1885–1972
SCHOOL / PERIOD Modern
Subjects Social Commentaries
Biography
Of all the major literary figures in the twentieth century, Ezra Pound has been one of the most controversial; he has also been one of modern poetry's most important contributors. In an introduction to the Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot declared that Pound "is more responsible for the twentieth-century revolution in poetry than is any other individual." Four decades later, Donald Hall reaffirmed in remarks collected . . .
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SUBJECT Social Commentaries
SCHOOL / PERIOD Modern
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