Reviews for Collected Early Poems Of Ezra Pound

The average rating for Collected Early Poems Of Ezra Pound based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-04-19 00:00:00 Craig Henry The other reviews are misleading. This collection is everything pre-Cathay, pre-Lustra, which are where Pound comes into his own as, respectively, a translator and a poet. So this isn't even everything excluded from the 1926 Personae. (Not the 1909 book of the same name which is included here in total. Pound disowned that 1909 book but re-used its title for the 1926 edition of his collected poems. To add to the confusion, there are different editions of his selected poems titled Personae as well.) So if you're looking for all the early poems excluded from the Selected Poems and the New Selected Poems and Translations (as I was), better luck finding those in yet another edition. (Why in the world New Directions is yet to put all the non-Cantos into one volume, as they did with Charles Olson's non-Maximus poems, is beyond me.)

Review # 2 was written on 2017-03-02 00:00:00 Brandon Peterson This collection of Early Pound poems shows why he was a poet of poets, why Yeats suggested him to reach to James Joyce, why Modernism without him would have been something else, and why many poets and artists advocated for him during his tumultuous years because of his political ideas. Pound's poetry think; his verses cut like an axe.