The Pound Biennial

Volume 1

Edited by Anderson Araujo and Ronald Bush

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The Ezra Pound Studies Biennial claims a place as the flagship journal entirely devoted to Pound’s work at a time when Pound studies represents one of the most active fields in modernist scholarship. Elaborating on the life, work, and international reception of one of the prime movers of the modernist revolution in the arts and letters, this inaugural volume joins an ever-increasing number of studies examining Pound’s letters, prose, poetry, translations, companions and international reception, and taking the form among other things of critical essays and editions, digital projects, and monographs. Building on this work, the current volume features twelve high-caliber contributions written by a diverse group of established and emerging Pound scholars. Their subjects include the genesis of Pound’s Pisan Cantos, the poet’s political and economic preoccupations, his association with modernist women writers, his fascination with typography and with the Italian Renaissance, and his translations of Noh plays and French poetry.

About the Editors

Anderson Araujo is Professor of English and World Literatures at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of A Companion to Ezra Pound’s Guide to Kulchur, and has published articles on T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and Richard Aldington, among others, as well as the chapter on “Italian Fascism” in The New Ezra Pound Studies (Cambridge). He is currently writing a monograph on modernist cultural politics and the Spanish Civil War.

Ronald Bush is Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature Emeritus at Oxford University, where he taught from 1997–2013, and a senior fellow both at St. John’s College Oxford and at the Institute for English Studies at the University of London’s School for Advanced Studies. Earlier in his career, Bush taught at Harvard University and Caltech. Among his publications are articles on Eliot, Pound, Joyce, Nabokov, and Roth, as well as the chapter on “Modernist Poetry and Poetics” in The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature. His major work in progress is a multi-volume genetic and critical edition of Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos.

Editors’ Introduction | Anderson Araujo and Ron Bush

I The Cantos
1. In the Antechamber of The Pisan Cantos | Ron Bush
2. Ezra Pound’s Annotations to Translations of The Pisan Cantos in the 1950s | Kenneth Haynes
3. Ezra Pound on Printing and Typography: The Cantos and the Solid Form of Language | Leonor María Martínez Serrano

II Drama, Fiction, and Poetry
4. Ezra Pound and the Original Enlightenment Ideas in the Noh Plays Sotoba Komachi and Kakitsubata | Hidetoshi Tomiyama
5. “Brilliant Detective Cut Off …”: The Blue Spill as a Clue-Puzzle Collaboration | Mark Byron
6. Endurance in Ezra Pound and Tennyson | Jack L. Hart
7. “Dans un Omnibus de Londres”: Ezra Pound’s Untranslated French Poem | Aya Yoshida

III Economics, Politics, and Visual Culture
8. Ezra Pound and William Paterson | Archie Henderson
9. Ezra Pound and Italo-Spanish Power Politics | Anderson Araujo
10. “An Accumulation of Images”: For a Late Iconography of Ezra Pound | Sean Mark

IV Literary Influences and Friendships
11. “Dear Iris Barry”: The Feminism of Ezra Pound | Paula Camacho
12. Laurence Binyon and Ezra Pound | Michael Alexander