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Summary: Pound begins The Cantos with a passage describing Odysseus and his companions sailing to Hades to find out what their futures hold.
A brief introduction to a modernist epic. Ezra Pound’s colossal work of modernist poetry, The Cantos, runs to nearly 800 pages and took him over half his life to write – and even then, he never finished it. Is The Cantos a masterpiece of twentieth-century poetry or an artistic failure?
The Cantos. Opening page of the first American edition, published 1933. The Cantos by Ezra Pound is a long poem in 109 sections plus a number of drafts and fragments added as a supplement at the request of the poem's American publisher, James Laughlin.
Mar 9, 2017 · A summary of Pound’s poem Ezra Pound’s colossal work of modernist poetry, The Cantos, runs to nearly 800 pages and took him over half his life to write – and even then, he never finished it. Pound himself said that the structure of The Cantos could be analysed as follows: ‘Live man goes down into….
Summary. The Cantos represents decades of Ezra Pound 's work and was published in a number of stages over the years. A Draft of XXX Cantos. The first 30 cantos were published in several chunks and in various versions and revisions, but after 15 years they were finally collected in one volume as A Draft of XXX Cantos.
1 Summary. 2 Structure and Form. 3 Literary Devices. 4 Detailed Analysis. 5 Similar Poetry. Summary. ‘Canto I’ by Ezra Pound is the start of Pound’s collection of musings, The Cantos. ‘Canto I’ is a translation of one part of The Odyssey. In this section of The Odyssey, Pound translates Odysseus’ journey into the realm of the dead.
