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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.
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Ezra Pound, an American expatriate poet, was a leading figure in the early modernist movement. His work is known for its complexity, incorporating multiple languages and historical references. The Cantos itself is not a single poem but a massive series of poems that Pound started in 1915 and continued developing until his death in 1972.
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?
Most of it was written between 1915 and 1962, although much of the material in the first three cantos was abandoned or redistributed in 1923, when Pound prepared the first instalment of the poem, A Draft of XVI Cantos (Three Mountains Press, 1925).
The term first appears in theoretical writings early in the 13th century (e.g., Boncampagno da Signa, Rhetorica novissima, 1235). [2] The earliest polyphonic compositions almost always involved a cantus firmus, typically a Gregorian chant, although by convention the term is not applied to music written before the 14th century. [3]
It was Edmund Spenser who first used the term “canto” in English. It is used in his epic, ‘The Faerie Queene’ which is now regarded as one of the finest pieces of English verse ever written. The cantos help to structure the poem, which is quite long, and allow the reader an easier way of reading it.
Historical Context. PDF Cite. Pound wrote his The Cantos over a long period of time—the first canto was published in 1917 and the final installment to be published during Pound's lifetime ...
