Ezra Pound, poet: a portrait of the man & his work

V.1. The young genius, 1885-1920. Part 1. 1885-1911. 1 Born in the USA ; Four generations 3 ; The Westons ; A small boy in Wyncote ; Homer ; Isabel ; Cheltenham Military Academy ; The Grand Tour with Aunt Frank ; Suburban prejudice ; XRa ; What he wanted to do ; 2 In a World of Books ; College of Liberal Arts, University of Pennsylvania: 1901-1903 14 ; Hamilton College, Class of '05 ; Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: '05-'07 ; 3 First Poems: 1901-1908 ; Dryad 34 ; Katherine Ruth Heyman ; Aesthetics ; False starts ; A Lume Spento ; 4 Hell and Deliverance ; The gadfly 55 ; Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana ; 5 Outward and Away ; Via Gibraltar and Venice 62 ; 6 London 1908-1910 ; A stiff white collar 68 ; A letter to his mother ; Elkin Mathews ; A Quinzaine for This Yule ; 'People are interested' ; 'The Dawn' and Dorothy ; Personae of Ezra Pound ; Yeats ; Exultations of Ezra Pound ; Ford Madox Hueffer ; The Spirit of Romance ; A tirade on the epic ; 'Our renaissance in the egg' ; 7 Patria Mia ; The exile's mission 127 ; Dorothy ; Canzoni ; Part 2. 1911-1920, London ; 8 Prelude in Paris 153 ; 9 1911-1912: Settling In ; Of heaven and the ground under it 158 ; A passive engagement ; The work of genius ; Ripostes of Ezra Pound ; 'This is where I belong' ; 10 In the Steps of the Troubadours 182 ; 11 Stirring Things Up: 1912-1913 ; Embroidery and vortex 196 ; One thing and another ; Taking on the contemporary ; Making enemies in The New Age ; Making a renaissance in Poetry ; Individualism in The New Freewoman ; The Imagiste vortex ; Odd ends ; 12 Going to War: 1913-1915 ; Spirits at Stone Cottage 236 ; A marriage ; The Blast vortex ; The coming of war ; Poets in a world at war: Cathay ; Finding himself ; 13 Shaping an Intelligence Unit: 1915-1916 ; Caring for Wyndham Lewis and James Joyce 276 ; Lustra of Ezra Pound: the censor censored ; Dialogues at Stone Cottage ; Works and days ; Poems of 1915-16, and the measure of realism ; 'Three Cantos': finding his form ; 14 Into Action: 1917-1918 ; Editor, male, seeks magazine (1912-16) 316 ; Thomas S. Eliot (1914-16) ; The Little Review and the Great War: arrival of new force ; From a letter to his father ; The Little Review and the Great War: the enemy ; His several fronts: chronicle ; 'Langue d'Oc' and Homage to Sextus Propertius ; 15 Goodbye to England: 1919-1920 ; The smell of French asphalt 355 ; The Fourth Canto, and a new poetic ; Public affairs ; Hugh Selwyn Mauberley ; A pair of old shoes ; ' ... out of the dead land'

v. 2. The epic years, 1921-1939. Part 1. 1921-1932. 1 A year in Paris, 1921-1924 ; 2 From Rapallo, 1924-1932 ; Part 2 1933-1939. 3 A democrat in Italy, 1933 ; 4 Things fall apart, 1933-1939 ; 5 Ideas of order, 1937-1939 ; 6 Alien in America ; Appendices

v. 3 The tragic years 1939-1972. Part One: 1939

1945.

1 Between Paradise & Propaganda: 1939-40 ; 2 A Dutifully Dissident Exile, 1941 ; 3 In a Web of Contradictions: 1942-43 ; 4 'To Dream the Republic': 1943-44 ; 5 For the Resurrection of Italy: 1944-45 ; Part Two: 1945. 6 Talking to the FBI ; 7 A Prisoner in the Eyes of Others ; 8 'In the mind indestructible': The Pisan Cantos ; Part Three. 9 American Justice ; 10 Giving Cornell his head

Lunacy at St. Elizabeths ; Part Four:

ST ELIZABETHS 1946

1958 ;

10 A Year in the Hell Hole ; 11 Resilience: 1947

50

Histrionics

'a awful lot of company'

No release

Thrown to wolves

Courage against cowardice ; 12 The Life of the Mind: 1950

55 ;

13 'Indictment Dismissed': 1956-58

The Tale of John Kasper

The skeleton in the national closest

'M' Amour, ma vie'

The St Elizabeths Cantos (2): Thrones 96-109 de los cantares

MacLeish gets his 'nol pros' ; 14 Clearing Out ; Part Five: 1958

1972.

15 A Final Testament: 1958

59 ;

16 'You Find Me In Fragments': 1959

62 ;

17 His Sickness & His Wealth: 1962 64

Mainly clinical

The Commitee's agenda ; 18 Afterlife of the Poet: 1965

1972 ;

Appendix. The Settlement of the Estate.

V. 1. The young genius, 1885-1920

v. 2. The epic years, 1921-1939

v. 3. The tragic years, 1939-1972.

V.1. The young genius, 1885-1920. Part 1. 1885-1911. 1 Born in the USA ; Four generations 3 ; The Westons ; A small boy in Wyncote ; Homer ; Isabel ; Cheltenham Military Academy ; The Grand Tour with Aunt Frank ; Suburban prejudice ; XRa ; What he wanted to do ; 2 In a World of Books ; College of Liberal Arts, University of Pennsylvania: 1901-1903 14 ; Hamilton College, Class of '05 ; Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: '05-'07 ; 3 First Poems: 1901-1908 ; Dryad 34 ; Katherine Ruth Heyman ; Aesthetics ; False starts ; A Lume Spento ; 4 Hell and Deliverance ; The gadfly 55 ; Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana ; 5 Outward and Away ; Via Gibraltar and Venice 62 ; 6 London 1908-1910 ; A stiff white collar 68 ; A letter to his mother ; Elkin Mathews ; A Quinzaine for This Yule ; 'People are interested' ; 'The Dawn' and Dorothy ; Personae of Ezra Pound ; Yeats ; Exultations of Ezra Pound ; Ford Madox Hueffer ; The Spirit of Romance ; A tirade on the epic ; 'Our renaissance in the egg' ; 7 Patria Mia ; The exile's mission 127 ; Dorothy ; Canzoni ; Part 2. 1911-1920, London ; 8 Prelude in Paris 153 ; 9 1911-1912: Settling In ; Of heaven and the ground under it 158 ; A passive engagement ; The work of genius ; Ripostes of Ezra Pound ; 'This is where I belong' ; 10 In the Steps of the Troubadours 182 ; 11 Stirring Things Up: 1912-1913 ; Embroidery and vortex 196 ; One thing and another ; Taking on the contemporary ; Making enemies in The New Age ; Making a renaissance in Poetry ; Individualism in The New Freewoman ; The Imagiste vortex ; Odd ends ; 12 Going to War: 1913-1915 ; Spirits at Stone Cottage 236 ; A marriage ; The Blast vortex ; The coming of war ; Poets in a world at war: Cathay ; Finding himself ; 13 Shaping an Intelligence Unit: 1915-1916 ; Caring for Wyndham Lewis and James Joyce 276 ; Lustra of Ezra Pound: the censor censored ; Dialogues at Stone Cottage ; Works and days ; Poems of 1915-16, and the measure of realism ; 'Three Cantos': finding his form ; 14 Into Action: 1917-1918 ; Editor, male, seeks magazine (1912-16) 316 ; Thomas S. Eliot (1914-16) ; The Little Review and the Great War: arrival of new force ; From a letter to his father ; The Little Review and the Great War: the enemy ; His several fronts: chronicle ; 'Langue d'Oc' and Homage to Sextus Propertius ; 15 Goodbye to England: 1919-1920 ; The smell of French asphalt 355 ; The Fourth Canto, and a new poetic ; Public affairs ; Hugh Selwyn Mauberley ; A pair of old shoes ; ' ... out of the dead land'

v. 2. The epic years, 1921-1939. Part 1. 1921-1932. 1 A year in Paris, 1921-1924 ; 2 From Rapallo, 1924-1932 ; Part 2 1933-1939. 3 A democrat in Italy, 1933 ; 4 Things fall apart, 1933-1939 ; 5 Ideas of order, 1937-1939 ; 6 Alien in America ; Appendices

v. 3 The tragic years 1939-1972.

v. 1. The young genius, 1885-1920

v. 2. The epic years, 1921-1939

v. 3. The tragic years 1939-1972.