Ezra Pound's Early Verse and Lyric Tradition - Stark, Robert
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Describes Ezra Pound's frantic pursuit of lyricism and musicality in his early verse This study argues that Pound learned how to write poetry more or less as if it was a foreign tongue, with a unique lexicon, grammar and even morphology, and that his most innovative poetry is the result of his ambivalent orientation towards a miscellany of European literary traditions. As Robert Stark demonstrates, this essentially foreign form of speech has two distinctive and related aspects: first, by virtue of its obscurity, it manifests outlandish and arcane forms of knowledge. It is, in Pound's words, a…mehr

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Describes Ezra Pound's frantic pursuit of lyricism and musicality in his early verse This study argues that Pound learned how to write poetry more or less as if it was a foreign tongue, with a unique lexicon, grammar and even morphology, and that his most innovative poetry is the result of his ambivalent orientation towards a miscellany of European literary traditions. As Robert Stark demonstrates, this essentially foreign form of speech has two distinctive and related aspects: first, by virtue of its obscurity, it manifests outlandish and arcane forms of knowledge. It is, in Pound's words, a 'language of exploration'. Second, also as a direct consequence of its obscurity, this language necessarily appears as a non-discursive, tactile and essentially acoustic kind of utterance. This dual understanding, Stark suggests, is particularly useful in describing modernist poetics, since it designates the lexical and formal difficulties that are its most characteristic features, and offers a unique account of what makes diction poetic in the twentieth century. Robert Stark is a Lecturer at the University of Exeter where, in addition to his on-going study of Ezra Pound's verse, he is exploring the literature of the Decadent movement in France, England and the United States. Jacket image: Erza Pound Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1913. Bird, Henri Gaudier Brzeskam 1912. Jacket design: [EUP logo] www.euppublishing.com ISBN 978-0-7486-4617-3 Barcode
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Robert Stark is the author of Ezra Pound and Lyric Tradition: A Jargoner's Apprenticeship (Edinburgh University Press, 2012). Ernest Dowson: Lyric Lives - the first full-length, critical work to appear on this neglected, canonical poet - is his latest book, forthcoming from Oxford University Press in November 2023, and he is now preparing a chronological, variorum edition of Dowson's collected works for Edinburgh University Press (projected for 2025). A Middle North, Stark's debut collection of original poetry, appeared in 2014. Since graduating, he has taught Modern Literature in the United States, Europe and throughout the world.