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Canto I. By Ezra Pound. And then went down to the ship, Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea, and. We set up mast and sail on that swart ship, Bore sheep aboard her, and our bodies also. Heavy with weeping, and winds from sternward. Bore us out onward with bellying canvas,
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.
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, collection of poems by Ezra Pound, who began writing these more or less philosophical reveries in 1915. The first were published in Poetry magazine in 1917; through the decades, the writing of cantos gradually became Pound’s major poetic occupation, and the last were published in 1968.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
In 1949, while imprisoned for treason, Ezra Pound won the prestigious Bollingen Prize for Poetry for The Pisan Cantos, a sequence he began while in jail. He died, following a decade of silence, in 1972.
The Cantos Project is dedicated to the research of Ezra Pound's long poem The Cantos.
Dive into The Cantos by Ezra Pound, a monumental poem that showcases Pound's complex style and thematic depth. Explore the literary brilliance and challenging narrative that define this epic work.
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