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REQUIRED TEXTS

 

The following texts are required or recommended. Books may be purchased or ordered through any bookstore, by mail or by Internet. Be sure to note overlap of Personae, The Imagist Poem, and Discretions.

I. ENGLISH 4391: The Poetry of Ezra Pound

Required:

Pound, Ezra. Personae: The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound. New Directions, 1926, 1990. ISBN 0-8112-1138-X $15.95

----. The Cantos of Ezra Pound. New Directions, 1972, 1986, 1996. ISBN 0-8112-1326-9 $23.95

----. The ABC of Reading. New Directions, 1934, 1951. ISBN 0-8112-0151-1 $12.95

Pratt, William, ed. The Imagist Poem: Modern Poetry in Miniature. UNO Press, 2008. ISBN: 0-9728143-8-8 $16.95

de Rachewiltz, Mary. Ezra Pound, Father & Teacher: Discretions. New Directions, 2005. ISBN 0-8112-16470. $16.95

Recommended:

Pound, Ezra. Collected Early Poems of Ezra Pound. Ed. Michael King. New Directions, 1982. ISBN: 0-8112-08435 $14.95

Cookson, William. A Guide to the Cantos of Ezra Pound. Persea, 1885, 2001. ISBN 0-89255-246-8 $37.95

Ruthven, K.K. A Guide to Ezra Pound's Personae (1926). U of California P, 1983. ISBN 0-520-04960-8 $12.95.

Terrell, Carroll F. A Companion to The Cantos of Ezra Pound. U of California P, 1980, 1993. ISBN 0-520-08287-7 $34.95

II. ENGLISH 6173/4163: Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry

Pound, Ezra. Personae. New Directions, 1926, 1992. ISBN 0-8112-1138-X $15.95

Pratt, William, ed. The Imagist Poem: Modern Poetry in Miniature. Story Line Press, 2001. ISBN 1-58654-009-2 $14.95

Schakel, Peter J., and Jack Ridl, eds. 250 Poems: A Portable Anthology. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2009. ISBN 0-312-46616-1 $25.95

Deutsch, Babette. Poetry Handbook: A Dictionary of Terms. HarperCollins, 1974. ISBN 0-06-463548-1 $12.95

de Rachewiltz, Mary. Ezra Pound, Father & Teacher: Discretions. New Directions, 2005. ISBN 0-8112-16470. $16.95

English 4391                                                        John Gery, University of New Orleans

                                                     THE POETRY OF EZRA POUND

                             Ezra Pound Center for Literature, Schloss Brunnenburg, Dorf Tirol, Italy

Assignments:

Class #1: Course Introduction.

Class #2: PERSONAE, 3‑52. [Poems of 1908-1911]

Focus: “The Tree,” “Na Audiart,” “Sestina: Altaforte,” “Ballad of the Goodly Fere,” “‘Blandula, Tenulla, Vagula’”

Class #3: PERSONAE, 53‑72, [Poems from Ripostes (1912)]

Focus: “Portrait d’une Femme,” “The Seafarer,” “Doria,” ‘The Return”

10: PERSONAE, 79-127, 147-57, 249-51 [Poems of Lustra (1913-1915)];

THE IMAGIST POEM, 21-30; 47-53; 64-98.

Focus: Imagist poems

Class #4: PERSONAE, 73-78, 129‑46, 165-82. [Poems from Blast (1914), Cathay (1915), and 1917-20]

Focus: “Fratres Minores,” “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter,” “Exile’s Letter,”

“The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance,” “Langue d’Oc”

Class #5: PERSONAE, 183‑225.

Focus: “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley”(1919-20), “Homage to Sextus Propertius” (1917)

Class #6: CANTOS I‑VII, 1‑27. [A Draft of XXX Cantos (1930)]

Focus: Cantos I, II, III, IV                                                      

Class #7: CANTOS VIII‑XX, 28‑95. [A Draft of XXX Cantos (1930)]

Focus: Cantos IX, XII, XIII, XIV‑XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII

Class #8: CANTOS XXI‑XXX, 96‑149. [A Draft of XXX Cantos (1930)]

Focus: Cantos XXII, XXV‑XXVI, XXIX XXX

Class #9: CANTOS XXXI‑XLI, 151‑206. [Eleven New Cantos (1934)]

Focus: Cantos XXXI-XXXII, XXXVI, XXXIX, XLI

Class #10: CANTOS XLII‑LI, 207‑52. [The Fifth Decad of Cantos (1937)]

Focus: Cantos XLII, XLV, XLVII, XLIX, LI

CANTOS LII-LIII, 253-74; CANTO LXIII, 351-354 [from Chinese/Adams Cantos (1940)]

Focus: Cantos LII, LXII

Class #11: CANTOS LXXIV‑LXXVII, 443‑96. [The Pisan Cantos (1948)]

Focus: Canto LXXIV, LXXVI

Class #12: Trip to Venice.

CANTOS LXXVIII‑LXXXIV, 497‑560. [The Pisan Cantos (1948)]

Focus: Cantos LXXVIII, LXXXI, LXXXIII, LXXXIV

Class #13: CANTOS XC‑XCV, 625‑667. [from Section: Rock‑Drill De Los Cantares (1955)]

Focus: Cantos LXXXV, XC, XCII, XCV

Class #14: from CANTOS XCVI‑CXX, 688-703, 748-775. [from Thrones De Los Cantares (1959)]

CANTOS, 795-824. [Drafts and Fragments of Cantos (1969)]

Focus: Cantos XCVII, CII-CV, CX, CXVI-CXX

Class #15: Final Examination

(This schedule is subject to change.)

English 4163/English 6173                                              John Gery, University of New Orleans

                                           ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY

                             Ezra Pound Center for Literature, Schloss Brunnenburg, Dorf Tirol, Italy

Assignments:

Class #1: Introduction

Class #2: Schakel & Ridl, 250 POEMS: Anonymous, 2-3; Wyatt, 3-4; Donne, 11; Herrick, 14; Herbert, 15; Bradstreet, 23-4; Robinson, 129-30; Randall, 174-5; Creeley, 198-9; Lorde, 229-30; Simic, 240-1; R. Jones, 309-10; Cervantes, 311-12; Chin, 316.

Pound, PERSONAE, 31-4, 38.

Focus: Elements of Form

Class #3: 250 POEMS: Wordsworth, 49-50; Frost, 131-5; Hughes, 160-1; J. Wright, 206; Rich, 214-16; Oliver, 232; Pinsky, 247-9; Hass, 249-50; Hejinian, 256; Forche, 286-7; Yau, 288.

Focus: Imagery & Figuration

Class #4: IMAGIST POEM, 64-75, 82-94, 106-29 (Intro, H.D., Williams, Lawrence, Sandburg, Moore, Stevens).

Pound, PERSONAE, 57-8, 110-18, 136.

Focus: Blank Verse, Free Verse, Imagism

Class #5: 250 POEMS: Spenser, 5; Shakespeare, 9-10; Donne, 13; Milton, 17; Blake, 47-8; Dickinson, 112-15; McKay, 154; Millay, 154; Roethke, 169; Wilbur, 187-8.

Pound, PERSONAE, 13-4, 39, 55.

Focus: Sonnets, Quatrains, etc.

Class #6: 250 POEMS: Wordsworth, 55-60; Coleridge, 61-3; Keats, 80-82; Owen, 155; Bishop, 172; Thomas, 178.

Pound, PERSONAE, 10-13, 26-8, 185, 202.

Focus: Odes, Sestinas, Villanelles

Class #7: 250 POEMS: Blake, 48-9; Tennyson, 85-7; Browning, 89-91; Eliot, 147-51; Jarrell, 180; Brooks, 181; Plath, 221-4; Ai, 273-4; Ping, 322.

Pound, PERSONAE, 8-10, 60-3, 135-39.

Focus: Dramatic Monologues, Poems "in translation"

Class #8: Poetry Workshop

Class #9: Poetry Workshop

Class #10: Poetry Workshop

Class #11: Poetry Workshop

Trip to Venice.

Class #12: Poetry Workshop

Class #13: Poetry Workshop

Class #14: Final Examination Due (No Class)

Class #15: Poetry Workshop

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                                            SELECTED LIST OF RECOMMENDED TEXTS

Primary Sources:

Eliot, T.S., The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound. Ed. Valerie Eliot. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.

Fenollosa, Ernest. The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry. City Lights Books, 1963.

Pound, Ezra. Collected Early Poems of Ezra Pound. New Directions, 1982.

----. The Confucian Odes [Shih-ching]: The Classic Anthology Defined by Confucius. Harvard UP, 1954.

----. Confucius. New Directions, 1951.

----. Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir. New Directions, 1960.

----. Guide to Kulchur. New Directions, 1970.

----. Jefferson and/or Mussolini. Stanley Nott Ltd., 1936; Liveright, 1970.

----. Literary Essays of Ezra Pound. Ed T.S. Eliot. New Directions, 1935.

----. Machine Art & Other Writings: The Lost Thought of the Italian Years. Ed. Ardizzone. Duke UP, 1996.

----. Pavannes & Divagations. New Directions, 1958.

----. Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941. Ed. D.D. Paige. New Directions, 1971.

----. Selected Prose, 1909-65. Ed. William Cookson. New Directions, 1973.

----. Spirit of Romance. New Directions, 1952.

----. Translations. New Directions, 1963.

Pound, Ezra, and Ernest Fenollosa. The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan. New Directions, 1959.

Biographies and Reference Books

Ackroyd, Peter. EP. Thames and Hudson, 1980.

Cookson, William. A Guide to the Cantos of EP. Persea, 1985, 2002.

Carpenter, Humphrey. EP, That Difficult Character. MacMillian, 1989.

Conover, Anne. Olga Rudge and EP: “What Thou Lovest Well. . .”. Yale UP, 2001.

Edwards, J. and W. Vasse. Annotated Index to THE CANTOS OF EP (1-84). U of California P, 1957.

Heymann, C. David. EP: The Last Rower. Citadel P, 1976.

Ruthven, K.K. A Guide to EP's PERSONAE (1926). U of California p, 1969.

Stock, Noel. The Life of EP: Expanded Edition. North Point Press, 1986.

Terrell, Carroll F., A Companion to THE CANTOS OF EP. U of California P, 1980, 1993.

Torrey, E. Fuller. The Roots of Treason: EP and the Secret of St. Elizabeths. Harcourt Brace, 1984.

Tytell, John. EP: The Solitary Volcano. Doubleday, 1987.

Wilhelm, J.J. EP in London and Paris, 1908-1925. Pennsylvania State UP, 1990.

Critical Works

Alexander, Michael. The Poetic Achievement of EP. U of California P, 1979.

Bacigalupo, Massimo. The Formed Trace: The Later Poetry of EP. Columbia UP, 1980.

Coyle, Michael. EP, Popular Genres, and the Discourse of Culture. Penn State UP, 1995.

Dasenbrock, Reed Way. The Literary Vorticism of EP and Wyndham Lewis. Johns Hopkins UP, 1985.

Davie, Donald. Ezra Pound. U of Chicago P, 1975.

Dennis, Helen M., ed. EP and Poetic Influence. Rodopi, 2000.

Flory, Wendy Stallard. The American EP. Yalu UP, 1989.

Froula, Christine. To Write Paradise: Style and Error in P's CANTOS. Yale UP, 1984.

Kenner, Hugh. The Pound Era. U of California P, 1971.

Lindberg, Kathryne V. Reading Pound Reading. Oxford UP, 1987.

Makin, Peter. Pound’s Cantos. John Hopkins UP, 1992.

Nadel, Ira B., ed. The Cambridge Companion to EP. Cambridge UP, 1999.

Qian, Zhaoming. Orientalism and Modernism: The Legacy of China in P and Williams. Duke UP, 1995.

Rainey, Lawrence S. EP and the Monument of Culture. U of Chicago P, 1991.

Redman, Tim. EP and Italian Fascism. Cambridge UP, 1991.

Surette, Leon. A Light from Eleusis: A Study of Ezra Pound's Cantos. Clarendon P, 1979.

Witemeyer, Hugh. The Poetry of EP: Forms and Renewal 1908-1920. U of California P, 1981.

Yip, Wai-lim. EP’s “Cathay”. Princeton UP, 1969.