Readings in the Cantos

The first in a landmark three-volume project, this book brings together some of the world's leading Pound and modernist scholars to read critically the quintessential long modernist poem, The Cantos. Each chapter approaches either a single canto or a defined small group of cantos, providing a clear, informative, and interpretive reading that includes an up-to-date assessment of sources and an idea of recent critical approaches to the work. Each essay includes relevant background about the canto's composition, source-hunting material explaining Pound's quotations and references, critical context, and correction of previous critical work on the canto. Contributors include Helen Carr, Stephen Romer, Ronald Bush, Aaron Jaffe, and Andrew Thacker.