The papers included were selected from those given at the 14th international Ezra Pound Conference held at Brunnenburg, Tirolo di Merano, 16-18 July 1991. The guiding principle for organizing the volume was thematic coherence and quality of thought as well as presentation. The articles are gathered under five headings: "General Impressions", "Traditional Affiliations", "Contemporary Connections", "Constructing Continuities", and "Specific Texts". The exhibitions accompanying the conference are represented and Pound's involvement with Europe is reflected in studies of his relationship with traditional authors as well as his contemporaries. Larger considerations and analysis is offered in Section Four and Cathay, Cantos LXXIII, and Drafts and Fragments are given individual attention.
Table of contents:GENERAL IMPRESSIONS. Mary de RACHEWILTZ: Ezra Pound's Library: What Remains. Ira B. NADEL: "Nothing but a nomad": Ezra Pound in Europe (1898-1911). TRADITIONAL AFFILIATIONS. Helen M. DENNIS: Is Wyatt to Petrarch as Ezra Pound to Arnault Daniel? Leon SURRETTE: Cavalcanti & Pound's Arcanum. G. SCHMIDT: "Rome. From the French of Joachim du Bellay": A European Perspective. CONTEMPORARY CONNECTIONS. Richard CADDEL: Acknowledged Land: A Biography of "They Say Etna" and a Debate between Bunting and Pound. A.D. MOODY: Bel Esprit and the Malatesta Cantos: A Post-Waste Land Conjunction of Pound and Eliot. Demetres TRYPHONOPOULOS: Ezra Pound and Olivia Rossetti Agresti: Their Correspondence. Anne CONOVER: Ezra Pound and the Crosby Continental Editions. John SOLT: The Hooking of Distant Antennae: Ez Po & Kit-Kat. Ernesto LIVORNI: Ezra Pound and Giuseppe Ungaretti: Between Haiku and Futurism. Constructing Continuities. Mohammed SHAHEEN: Pound's Revolution: A Renaissance of Activity. Archie HENDERSON: Pound, Sweden, and the Nobel Prize: An Introduction. Peter NICHOLLS: Lost Object(s): Ezra Pound and the Idea of Italy. John Xiros COOPER: Music as Symbol and Structure in Pound's Pisan Cantos and Eliot's Four Quartets. Helen V. EMMITT: "Make-strong old dreams": Ezra Pound and European Aestheticism. SPECIFIC TEXTS. Tony LOPEZ: Sequential Meaning in Ezra Pound's Cathay. Massimo MANDOLINI PESARESI: Pound's Admirable Presenza in the Italian Language: Cantos LXXII and LXXIII. Ronald BUSH: "Unstill, ever turning": The Composition of Ezra Pound's Drafts & Fragments.
Table of contents:GENERAL IMPRESSIONS. Mary de RACHEWILTZ: Ezra Pound's Library: What Remains. Ira B. NADEL: "Nothing but a nomad": Ezra Pound in Europe (1898-1911). TRADITIONAL AFFILIATIONS. Helen M. DENNIS: Is Wyatt to Petrarch as Ezra Pound to Arnault Daniel? Leon SURRETTE: Cavalcanti & Pound's Arcanum. G. SCHMIDT: "Rome. From the French of Joachim du Bellay": A European Perspective. CONTEMPORARY CONNECTIONS. Richard CADDEL: Acknowledged Land: A Biography of "They Say Etna" and a Debate between Bunting and Pound. A.D. MOODY: Bel Esprit and the Malatesta Cantos: A Post-Waste Land Conjunction of Pound and Eliot. Demetres TRYPHONOPOULOS: Ezra Pound and Olivia Rossetti Agresti: Their Correspondence. Anne CONOVER: Ezra Pound and the Crosby Continental Editions. John SOLT: The Hooking of Distant Antennae: Ez Po & Kit-Kat. Ernesto LIVORNI: Ezra Pound and Giuseppe Ungaretti: Between Haiku and Futurism. Constructing Continuities. Mohammed SHAHEEN: Pound's Revolution: A Renaissance of Activity. Archie HENDERSON: Pound, Sweden, and the Nobel Prize: An Introduction. Peter NICHOLLS: Lost Object(s): Ezra Pound and the Idea of Italy. John Xiros COOPER: Music as Symbol and Structure in Pound's Pisan Cantos and Eliot's Four Quartets. Helen V. EMMITT: "Make-strong old dreams": Ezra Pound and European Aestheticism. SPECIFIC TEXTS. Tony LOPEZ: Sequential Meaning in Ezra Pound's Cathay. Massimo MANDOLINI PESARESI: Pound's Admirable Presenza in the Italian Language: Cantos LXXII and LXXIII. Ronald BUSH: "Unstill, ever turning": The Composition of Ezra Pound's Drafts & Fragments.