The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

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This Companion contains fifteen chapters by leading international scholars who together reflect diverse but complementary approaches to the study of Ezra Pounds poetry and prose. They consider the poetics foreign influences economics politics and publication history of Pounds entire corpus and also situate Pounds work in the context of Modernism illustrating his influence on contemporaries such as T. S. Eliot and James Joyce. Taken together the chapters offer a sustained examination of one of the most versatile influential and certainly controversial poets of the modern period.