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- “A lume spento” could mean “with lights out,” but for historical reasons, most translators of the Purgatorio give something like Pound’s “with tapers quenched.” The phrase refers to the medieval tradition of burying heretics “sine cruce, sine luce”—without crosses or candles to accompany them.
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A Lume Spento consists of 45 poems. A Lume Spento is replete with allusions to works which had influenced Pound, including Provençal and late Victorian literatures. Pound adopts Robert Browning's technique of dramatic monologues, and as such he "appears to speak in the voices of historical or legendary figures".
- Ezra Pound
- 1908
Sep 3, 2010 · Collection. internetarchivebooks; americana; inlibrary; printdisabled. Contributor. Internet Archive. Language. English. "First printing"--Verso of t.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 124) and index. A lume spento -- A quinzaine for this Yule -- Some poems from the "San Trovaso" notebook.
The Ezra Pound Archive in the Beinecke Library, Yale University, includes an autograph manuscript notebook of Pound's titled "At San Trovaso," written during 1907-08.13 The inside back wrapper of this notebook has Pound's list of recipients of copies of A Lume Spento. Probably he began keeping this list in Venice, when copies were first
Ezra Pound's first collection, A Lume Spento, self-published in Venice in 1908, recorded here in full. At the time, the London Evening Standard called it "wi...
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In 1908, Pound published his first volumes, A Lume Spento [With Tapers Quenched], A Quinzaine for This Yule, and Personae [Masks]. Content to live outside his native land, in September 1909, he settled in a sparse front room in London's Kensington section; five years later, he married Dorothy Shakespear.
A Lume Spento (With Tapers Spent), which sold 100 copies at six cents each. The London Evening Standard called it "wild and haunting stuff, absolutely poetic, original, imaginative."
