The Collected Early Poems of Ezra Pound contains the complete text, the poet’s first six books, their title pages in facsimile (
A Lume Spento, 1908;
A Quinzaine for This Yule, 1908;
Personae, 1909;
Exultations, 1909;
Canzoni, 1911;
Ripostes, 1912), and the long poem
Redondillas (1911), for many years available only in a rare limited edition. There are, in addition, twenty-five poems originally published in periodicals but not previously collected, as well as thirty-eight others drawn from miscellaneous manuscripts. Ezra Pound’s 1926 collection, entitled
Personae after his earlier volume of that name, was his personal choice of all the poems he wished to keep in print other than some translations and his
Cantos. It was intended to be the definitive collection of his shorter poems, and so it should remain. Yet even the discarded works of a great poet are of value and interest to students and devotees. Originally, brought out clothbound by New Directions in 1976, the texts were established at the Center for the Study of Ezra Pound and His Contemporaries of The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. They were edited by Michael King under the direction of Louis L. Martz, who wrote the introduction, and Donald Gallup, formerly Curator of American Literature. Included are textual and bibliographic notes as well as indexes of titles and first lines.
This book title, Collected Early Poems of Ezra Pound, ISBN: 9780811208437, by Ezra Pound, published by New Directions (November 17, 1982) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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