Ezra Pound's Early Verse and Lyric Tradition
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Ezra Pound's Early Verse and Lyric Tradition by Robert Stark
Traces the lyricism and musicality in Pound's early verse through to his radical Modernist style. Robert Stark argues that Pound learned how to write poetry more or less as if it was a foreign tongue - or poetic 'jargon' - with a unique lexicon, grammar, and even morphology, and that his most innovative poetry is the result of his ambivalent orientation towards different European literary traditions.Stark contextualizes Pound's poetic craft by examining his relationship to the Mediaeval and Classical originators of the methods he employs and by considering the practice and criticism of his immediate Victorian and Romantic predecessors. He explores the influence of poets such as Fran ois Villon, Guido Cavalcanti, Robert Burns, Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne and Walt Whitman on Pound's lyrical style. For Stark, Pound's multi-vocalism arises out of his interest in dialect and the acoustic qualities of speech which leads to a 'modern' barbarous language marked by polysemy and heterogeneity.
Robert Stark is the author of Ezra Pound and Lyric Tradition: A Jargoner's Apprenticeship (Edinburgh University Press, 2012). Ernest Dowson: Lyric Lives – the first full-length, critical work to appear on this neglected, canonical poet – is his latest book, forthcoming from Oxford University Press in November 2023, and he is now preparing a chronological, variorum edition of Dowson's collected works for Edinburgh University Press (projected for 2025). A Middle North, Stark's debut collection of original poetry, appeared in 2014. Since graduating, he has taught Modern Literature in the United States, Europe and throughout the world.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781399567213 |
| ISBN 10 | 1399567217 |
| Title | Ezra Pound's Early Verse and Lyric Tradition |
| Author | Robert Stark |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Year published | 2026-07-31 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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