A Guide to Ezra Pound's Personae (1926)

A critical appreciation of the work of the early Pound, providing a balanced approach between adoration and rejection. An intelligent and reliable scholar, this guide is a valuable resource for scholars and students of English literature.

Format: Hardback
Length: 292 pages
Publication date: 25 March 2022
Publisher: University of California Press

This book offers both a commentary on and a critical appreciation of the work of the early Pound. It begins with a lucid introduction to Pound's technique in general, and to his imagist phase (during which the poems commented on in this book were written) in particular. In the critical passages, Mr. Ruthven steers a wise middle course between the attitudes of uncritical adoration and wholesale rejection that mar so much of the literature on Pound. . . . informative without being pedantic, and exhaustive without being long-winded. . . . To turn to Mr. Ruthven's Guide is to follow in the footsteps of an intelligent, sensitive, and reliable scholar.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.

Weight: 499g
Dimension: 203 x 133 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780520356979