Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume III: The Tragic Years 1939-1972

A. David Moody (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, University of York)

Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume III: The Tragic Years 1939-1972
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
8 October 2015
Pages
680
ISBN
9780198704362

Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume III: The Tragic Years 1939-1972

A. David Moody (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, University of York)

This third and final volume of A. David Moody’s critical life of Ezra Pound presents Pound’s personal tragedy in a tragic time. The first volumes of Moody’s biography have been acclaimed as ‘masterly’ (Daily Telegraph), ‘exceptional’ (Literary Review), and ‘invaluable’ (New York Times Book Review). In this concluding volume, we experience the 1939-1945 World War, and Pound’s hubristic involvement in Fascist Italy’s part in it; we encounter the grave moral and intellectual error of Pound holding the Jewish race responsible for the war; and his consequent downfall, being charged with treason, condemned as an anti-Semite, and shut up for twelve years in an institution for the insane. Further, we see Pound stripped for life, by his own counsel and wife, of his civil and human rights. Pound endured what was inflicted upon him, justly and unjustly, without complaint; and continued his lifetime’s effort to promote, in and through his Cantos and his translations, a consciousness of a possible humane and just social order. The contradictions run deep and compel, as tragedy does, a steady and unprejudiced contemplation and an answering depth of comprehension.

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