Epic reinvented

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In Epic Reinvented, Mary Ellis Gibson examines Ezra Pound's Cantos to trace connections between his aesthetics and his politics. She treats little-known and unpublished writings, including many early poems. One substantial poem, "In Praise of the Masters," appears here in print for the first time. Discussing Pound's relationship to his Victorian predecessors, particularly Robert Browning and nineteenth-century historians, Gibson demonstrates how Pound's attempt to write a post-Romantic epic both confronted questions of genre and social order and led to the unpredictabilities of his politics. She develops a rhetorical tropology to account for the formal and cultural dimensions of Pound's contradictions. Exploring fin-de-siecle publishing, Gibson investigates how Pound's utopian political vision was rooted in nineteenth-century and fascist ideologies of gender. Violence is implicit in both. For Gibson, the aesthetic Pound and the political Pound, Pound the visionary and Pound the historian, are one.

subjects: American Epic poetry,  English influences,  English literature,  Epic poetry, American,  History,  History and criticism,  Knowledge,  Literature,  Modernism (Literature),  Political and social views,  Politics and literature,  Epos,  Politieke meningen,  Politische Philosophie,  Literatur,  Literaire esthetiek,  Politik,  Poetik,  Art,  Cantos (Pound, Ezra),  Histoire et critique,  Et la littérature,  Modernisme (littérature),  Pensée politique et sociale,  Littérature anglaise,  Lyrik,  Pound, ezra, 1885-1972,  English literature, history and criticism, 19th century,  United states, politics and government, 20th century,  Great britain, politics and government, 19th century,  Epic poetry,  Knowledge and learning

People: Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

Places: English-speaking countries

Times: 19th century,  20th century