Table of Contents

Contributors; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chronology; 1. Introduction: understanding Pound Ira B. Nadel; 2. Pound and the making of modernism George Bornstein; 3. Early poetry 1908–1920 Hugh Witemeyer; 4. Early Cantos I-XLI Daniel Albright; 5. Middle Cantos XLII-LXXI Ian F. A. Bell; 6. Late Cantos LXXII-CXVII Ronald Bush; 7. Beyond The Cantos: Pound and American poetry Peter Nicholls; 8. The texts of The Cantos Richard Taylor; 9. Pound as critic Massimo Bacigalupo; 10. Pound as translator Ming Xie; 11. Pound and the visual arts Reed Way Dasenbrock; 12. Pound and music Michael Ingham; 13. Pound's politics and economics Tim Redman; 14. Pound, women and gender Helen M. Dennis; 15. Pound and antisemitism Wendy Flory; Further reading; Index.

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