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Ezra Pound

A Literary Life

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  • © 2004

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  1. Ira B. Nadel
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Ira B. Nadel
    Pages 1-6

  3. ‘Mastership at One Leap’: 1885–1908

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    Pages 7-32

  4. ‘My Music is Your Disharmony’: 1908–14

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    Pages 33-66

  5. ‘The Noble Crested Screamer’: 1914–20

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    Pages 67-88

  6. ‘Bring Order to Your Surroundings’: 1920–29

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    Pages 89-116

  7. ‘The Indifferent Never Make History’: 1930–40

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    Pages 117-143

  8. ‘Nothin’ Undecided’: Rome, Pisa, Washington, 1940–58

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    Pages 144-172

  9. ‘The European Mind Stops’: Drafts, Fragments and Silences, 1958–72

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    Pages 173-194

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 195-218
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About this book

Drawing on a series of new sources, this biography of Ezra Pound - the first to appear in more than a decade - outlines his contribution to modernism through a detailed account of his development, influence and continued significance. It pays special attention to his role in creating Imagism, Vorticism and the modern long poem, as well as his importance for Yeats, Joyce and Eliot. His roles as editor, translator and critic, plus his attempt to complete The Cantos , are also studied.

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'Time and time again we are presented with biography which is closely linked to the poetry and which brings the poetry alive again for the reader'. - The Use of English Journal

About the author

Ira Nadel is Professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of Leonard Cohen: A Life in Art (1994), Double Act: A Life of Tom Stoppard (2000), Ezra Pound: A Literary Life (2004), Joyce and His Publishers (2005), The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound (2007), and David Mamet: A Life in the Theatre (2008). Nadel is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a UBC Distinguished University Scholar, and the winner of the 1996 Medal for Canadian Biography. He has also been awarded a Killam Research Prize, Mellon and Dorot Fellowships at the Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, and a Beinecke Fellowship at Yale University, USA.

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