Ezra Pound's Early Verse and Lyric Tradition
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Ezra Pound
forthcoming
Modernism
Modernist Poetry
Twentieth-Century Literature
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- ISBN 9781399567213
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jul 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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, a poetic 'jargon' with a unique lexicon, grammar, and even morphology. 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 François Villon, Guido Cavalcanti, Robert Burns, Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne and Walt Whitman on Pound's lyrical style. For Stark, Pound's poly-vocalism arises out of his interest in dialect and, above all, in the the acoustic qualities of language.
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.
