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Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

Auteur van The Cantos of Ezra Pound

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Ezra Pound, 1885-1972 Ezra Weston Loomis Pound ("Ezra Pound"), along with T. S. Eliot, was one of the two main influences on British and U.S. poetry between the two world wars. Pound was born in a small, two-storey house in Hailey, Idaho Territory on October 30, 1885. Between 1897 and 1900 Pound toon meer attended Cheltenham Military Academy, sometimes as a boarder, where he specialized in Latin. Pound graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and went abroad to live in 1908. The collection of his Letters, 1907--1941 revealed the great erudition of this most controversial expatriate poet. His first book, A Lume Spento, a small collection of poems, was published in Venice in 1908. With the publication of Personae in London in 1909, he became the leader of the imagists abroad. Pound's writings have been subject to many foreign influences. First he imitated the troubadours; then he came under the influence of the Chinese and Japanese poets. The Cantos (1925--60), his major work, to which he added for many years, is a mixture of modern colloquial language and classical quotation. The Pisan Cantos (1948), written during his imprisonment in Italy, is more autobiographical. Pound's prose, as well as his poetry, has been extremely influential. The Spirit of Romance (1910) is a revision of his studies of little-known romance writers. ABC of Reading (1934) is an exposition of his critical method. His critical writings include Literary Essays of Ezra Pound (1954), Instigations (1920), and Guide to Kulchur (1938). Pound was a linguist, whom Eliot called "the inventor of Chinese poetry for our time." His greatest translating achievements from Japanese, Chinese, Anglo-Saxon, Italian, Provencal, and French are collected in The Translations of Ezra Pound (1933). Among his other writings are Make It New: Essays; Jefferson and/or Mussolini, a discussion of American democracy and capitalism and fascism; and The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan, with Ernest Fenollosa. Living in Italy, Pound felt that some of the practices of Mussolini were in accord with the doctrines of social credit, in which he had become interested in the 1920s and 1930s. He espoused some of the general applications of fascism and also was a strong advocate of anti-Semitism. During World War II, he broadcast a pro-Fascist series of programs addressed to the Allied troops on Italian radio. Indicted for treason and brought to the United States to stand trial in 1946, he was judged mentally incompetent to prepare a defense and was committed to St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C. for over 12 years. After a concerted appeal to the federal government by American poets, led by Robert Frost, Pound was at last released in 1958 and returned to Italy. Pound died on November 1, 1972. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1948) 1,367 exemplaren
Selected Poems (1957) 1,309 exemplaren
ABC of Reading (1934) 1,054 exemplaren
Personæ (1926) 528 exemplaren
Literary Essays of Ezra Pound (1954) 400 exemplaren
Poems and translations (2003) 379 exemplaren
Selected Cantos of Ezra Pound (1967) 278 exemplaren
Guide to Kulchur (1970) 258 exemplaren
Selected Poems, 1908–1969 (1975) 208 exemplaren
De Pisaanse Canto's (1973) 206 exemplaren
The Translations of Ezra Pound (1953) 160 exemplaren
A Draft of XXX Cantos (1930) 125 exemplaren
The Spirit of Romance (1930) 118 exemplaren
Confucius (1947) 115 exemplaren
Confucius to Cummings: An Anthology of Poetry (1964) — Redacteur — 101 exemplaren
Cathay (1915) 100 exemplaren
Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir (1960) 83 exemplaren
Love Poems of Ancient Egypt (1962) 81 exemplaren
Selected Poems {Eliot} (1928) 80 exemplaren
Early Writings (2005) 60 exemplaren
Pavannes and Divagations (1918) 49 exemplaren
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1959) 37 exemplaren
The Cantos (1–95) (1956) 36 exemplaren
Diptych Rome-London (1994) 34 exemplaren
Poesia (1993) 25 exemplaren
How to Read (1931) 25 exemplaren
Thrones, 96-109 de los cantares (1960) 24 exemplaren
Jefferson and/or Mussolini (1935) 22 exemplaren
Lustra of Ezra Pound (1973) 22 exemplaren
Cantos LII-LXXI (1940) 20 exemplaren
Posthumous cantos (2002) 17 exemplaren
Confucian Analects (1933) 17 exemplaren
Opere scelte (1992) 16 exemplaren
Disfraces (1999) 15 exemplaren
Exultations (1973) 15 exemplaren
Impact (1960) 15 exemplaren
Lesebuch. Dichtung und Prosa (1985) 14 exemplaren
Make It New (1934) 14 exemplaren
Homage to Sextus Propertius (1982) 13 exemplaren
Ezra Pound Reads (1985) 12 exemplaren
Dichtung und Prosa (1956) 11 exemplaren
Antología (1979) 11 exemplaren
Ripostes (1912) 11 exemplaren
Des Imagistes: An Anthology (1914) — Redacteur — 11 exemplaren
A selection of poems (1940) 11 exemplaren
Eleven New Cantos, XXXI-LXI (1934) 11 exemplaren
15 Cantos 10 exemplaren
Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts (1980) 10 exemplaren
Personae - A Draft of XXX Cantos (1980) 10 exemplaren
The fifth decad of cantos (1937) 8 exemplaren
Patria mía (1950) 8 exemplaren
A lume spento, 1908-1958 (1965) 7 exemplaren
Canzoni (2007) 7 exemplaren
Ezra Pound (2015) 7 exemplaren
Arte da Poesia, A (1988) 6 exemplaren
Polite essays (2001) 6 exemplaren
Canti postumi (2002) 6 exemplaren
Quia pauper amavi 6 exemplaren
Poèmes (1985) 5 exemplaren
Provenca (2012) 5 exemplaren
Dikt i utvalg (1971) 5 exemplaren
Do Caos à Ordem (1983) 5 exemplaren
Mauberley, en andere gedichten (1985) 4 exemplaren
Dk/Some Letters of Ezra Pound (1974) 4 exemplaren
Le poesie scelte 4 exemplaren
CARTA DA VISITA 4 exemplaren
25 dikter 4 exemplaren
Culture 4 exemplaren
The exile 3 exemplaren
Sztuka maszyny i inne pisma (2003) 3 exemplaren
Cathay (2013) 3 exemplaren
Cantos XVIII-XXX 3 exemplaren
Confucian Odes. The 2 exemplaren
Pound / Theobald Letters (1984) 2 exemplaren
Venezia nei Cantos 2 exemplaren
Lettere 1907-1958 2 exemplaren
Ezra Pound at Seventy 2 exemplaren
Seventy cantos (1950) 2 exemplaren
Cinco poesias (1952) 2 exemplaren
Digte og cantos 2 exemplaren
Active anthology 2 exemplaren
Ezra Pound's Cavalcanti poems — Vertaler — 2 exemplaren
What is money for (1999) 2 exemplaren
The Exile 1 2 exemplaren
Kantolar (2020) 2 exemplaren
Awai no uye: a play by Ujinob (2010) 2 exemplaren
Tre cantos 2 exemplaren
Cantos 91, 96 2 exemplaren
Scritti economici 2 exemplaren
Canti pisani 2 exemplaren
Esprit des litteratures romanes (1966) 2 exemplaren
A Pact 1 exemplaar
Forked Branches 1 exemplaar
Dante (I nodi) (2015) 1 exemplaar
Confucian Odes 1 exemplaar
Selected Prose, 1909-1965 (1978) 1 exemplaar
Camões (2005) 1 exemplaar
Antología poética (1991) 1 exemplaar
Konfüçyüs 1 exemplaar
ABC de la lectura 1 exemplaar
Poems from Cathay. 1 exemplaar
Seçme Kantolar 1 exemplaar
Cántico del Sol (2005) 1 exemplaar
SEÇME KANTOLAR 1 exemplaar
Cantico del Sol 1 exemplaar
How to Read 1 exemplaar
The Last Rower 1 exemplaar
Fenollosa 1 exemplaar
Agenda 1 exemplaar
CANTARES COMPLETOS 1 exemplaar
The Cantos (2009) 1 exemplaar
Passages from the letters of John Butler Yeats (1971) — Redacteur — 1 exemplaar
Kultur 1 exemplaar
The Exile 1 exemplaar
Poems (1918-21) 1 exemplaar
Ars poetica: saggi letterari (2009) 1 exemplaar
ABC des Lebens. 1 exemplaar
Pensieri sull'amore — Vertaler — 1 exemplaar
Patria Mea 1 exemplaar
Κατάη 1 exemplaar
Imaginary letters 1 exemplaar
Saggi letterari 1 exemplaar
Nō - vom Genius Japans (1990) 1 exemplaar
Radiodiscorsi (1998) 1 exemplaar
Nine, No. 1 1 exemplaar
Liryki najpiękniejsze (2000) 1 exemplaar
Poezje wybrane (1989) 1 exemplaar
Carta a C.J.C. 1 exemplaar
LXXV canto pisano 1 exemplaar
Cantemos al amor 1 exemplaar
Cantos I-XVII 1 exemplaar
Versi prosaici 1 exemplaar
Les cantos : [extraits] (1997) 1 exemplaar
Two essays 1 exemplaar
The Exile 4 1 exemplaar
Per conoscere Pound 1 exemplaar
Orientamenti 1 exemplaar
Kāntau I 1 exemplaar
26 dikter (1973) 1 exemplaar
The Salo Cantos 1 exemplaar
Antología Poética 1 exemplaar
Ezra Pound, Selected Poems (1957) 1 exemplaar
An angle 1 exemplaar
Om harmoni : musikessäer (1978) 1 exemplaar
Il libro di Hilda 1 exemplaar
Selected Poems 1 exemplaar
Cantos prohibidos (2011) 1 exemplaar
The Return [poem] 1 exemplaar
Lettres de Paris (2004) 1 exemplaar
Cavalcanti Sonnets 1 exemplaar
Trattato d'armonia 1 exemplaar
Guide to Kulchur 1 exemplaar
Prologo di Natale (1992) 1 exemplaar
Pieśni (1996) 1 exemplaar
Instigations (2014) 1 exemplaar
Abc da Literatura 1 exemplaar

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Officiële naam
Pound, Ezra Weston Loomis
Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
Atheling, William
Mao, Ming
Venison, Alfred
The Poet of Titchfield Street
Geboortedatum
1885-10-30
Overlijdensdatum
1972-11-01
Graflocatie
San Michele Cemetery, San Giorgio Maggiore, Italy
Geslacht
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Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
Hailey, Idaho, USA
Plaats van overlijden
Venice, Italy
Oorzaak van overlijden
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Hailey, Idaho, USA
Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, USA
Wyncote, Pennsylvania, USA
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Clinton, New York, USA
London, England, UK (toon alle 10)
Venice, Italy
Paris, France
Rapallo, Italy
St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, D.C., USA
Opleiding
Cheltenham Military Academy
Hamilton College (BPhil|1905)
University of Pennsylvania (MA|1906)
Beroepen
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literary critic
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music critic
Relaties
Pound, Omar (son)
De Rachewiltz, Mary (daughter)
Shakespear, Olivia (mother-in-law)
Shakespear, Dorothy (wife)
Aldington, Richard (friend)
H. D. (friend) (toon alle 25)
Eliot, T. S. (friend)
Cummings, E. E. (friend)
Ford, Ford Madox (friend)
Frost, Robert (friend)
Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri (friend)
Hemingway, Ernest (friend)
Hulme, T. E. (friend)
Joyce, James (friend)
Kenner, Hugh (friend)
Lawrence, D. H. (friend)
Lewis, Wyndham (friend)
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Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, USA
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BLAST! (toon alle 9)
Little Review
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Prijzen en onderscheidingen
Dial Award (1927)
Academy of American Poets fellowship (1963)
American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1938])
Honorary doctorate, Hamilton College
Homer Pound House in Hailey, Idaho, on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places

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Ο Ezra Pound γεννήθηκε στο Hailey/Idaho (1885), μεγάλωσε στο Wyncote της Πενσυλβανίας και φοίτησε στο Κολλέγιο του Χάμιλτον και στο Πανεπιστήμιο της Πενσυλβανίας. Δίδαξε για λίγο γαλλικά και Ισπανικά στο Κολλέγιο Wabash/Indiana κι απολύθηκε γιατί ένα βράδυ πρόσφερε στέγη σε μιαν απένταρη χορεύτρια. Αμέσως ξενιτεύτηκε στην Ευρώπη (1907). Έμεινε ένα χρόνο στη Βενετία, όπου τύπωσε (1908) την πρώτη του συλλογή A Lune Spento. Τον ίδιο χρόνο εγκαταστάθηκε στο Λονδίνο κι άρχισε να εμφανίζεται με προκλητική εμφάνιση στα καλλιτεχνικά σαλόνια. Εκεί τύπωσε τις συλλογές του Personae και Exultations (1909), πρωτοστατώντας στο αμερικανικό ποιητικό κίνημα του "εικονισμού" που καθιέρωνε μια ποίηση λιτή, απέριττη, αντικειμενική και ελλειπτική. Το 1914 παντρεύτηκε τη Dorothy Shakespear, απόχτησε από το γάμο του ένα γιο (1926) κι αργότερα την εγκατέλειψε για να συνδεθεί έως το τέλος της ζωής του με την πιανίστα Όλγα Rudge, ερωμένη και πιστή του φίλη. Καρπός του δεσμού τους υπήρξε η κόρη του πριγκήπισσα Mary de Rachewiltz. Την εποχή εκείνη παρεκίνησε τον Τζόυς και τον Έλιοτ να τυπώσουν τα έργα τους και μάλιστα περιέκοψε σχεδόν τη μισή "Έρημη χώρα" του Έλιοτ και της έδωσε την τελική της μορφή. Παράλληλα ασχολήθηκε και με τη μουσική. Συνέθεσε (μουσική και λιμπρέτο) την όπερα "Francois Villon" και ήταν από τους πρώτους που ανακάλυψαν στον αιώνα μας τον Βιβάλντι.
Φύση αντιφατική με τραγικές μεταπτώσεις από την τρυφερότητα έως την αυτοκαταστροφή, μπορούσε να βοηθάει από το υστέρημά του τους φίλους του ή ν' αναπτύσσει μια δική του οικονομική θεωρία περί κοινωνικής πίστεως, να μελετά επί χρόνια νεκρές γλώσσες για να μεταφράζει ή να παραφράζει αρχαία κείμενα από το πρωτότυπο ή να φωνασκεί υπέρ του Μουσολίνι και κατά των Εβραίων από το Ραδιοφωνικό σταθμό της Ρώμης. Αυτές οι τακτικές εκπομπές συνεχίστηκαν σ' όλο το διάστημα του Β' παγκοσμίου πολέμου. Ακολούθησε η σύλληψή του (1945) από τα αμερικανικά στρατεύματα που απελευθέρωσαν την Ιταλία, η απομόνωσή του σ' ένα ξέσκεπο κλουβί με συρματοπλέγματα στην Πίζα και η μεταφορά του στην Ουάσιγκτον (1945) για να δικαστεί επί προδοσία. Κρίθηκε διανοητικά ακατάλληλος για δίκη και κλείστηκε σε ψυχιατρική κλινική. Αποφυλακίστηκε (1958) και ξαναγύρισε τον ίδιο χρόνο στην Ιταλία. Πέθανε στη Βενετία, στις 2 Νοεμβρίου 1972. (Από την παρουσίαση της έκδοσης)
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AG0900 | Mar 5, 2024 |
> RÉSUMÉ. — L'Anthologie classique (le Shijing) rassemble les 305 poèmes - chansons populaires, odes pour les cérémonies de cour, odes religieuses -sélectionnés et ordonnés, selon la tradition, par Confucius (551-479 av. J.-C.), dont la doctrine politique et sociale fut érigée en religion d'Etat et marqua profondément la civilisation chinoise. Ezra Pound voyait dans le confucianisme un véritable "code de la vie" et une possibilité de renouvellement pour l'Occident. Après Les Entretiens de Confucius (ou Analectes), le poète américain traduit donc les odes confucéennes au temps de sa détention à l'hôpital St. Elizabeth's. Sa connaissance du chinois peut sembler rudimentaire : il suit l'enseignement de son maître Fenollosa, et ses solutions ne sont pas exemptes de fantaisie. Toutefois, Pound accorde une importance particulière au travail de traduction et voit dans la concordance des langues un critère majeur de civilisation. Il préfère par conséquent toujours la restitution d'une inflexion vivante au strict respect de la syntaxe. Une approche non conventionnelle mais efficace, qu'avait remarquée Simon Leys : "Pound ne savait guère le chinois ; ses interprétations sont quelquefois loufoques... mais Pound a fait preuve d'une infaillible intuition des rythmes de l'original... son oreille ne se trompe jamais, et dans ce domaine il nous administre une leçon exemplaire."… (meer)
 
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Joop-le-philosophe | Jan 27, 2024 |
Questa è una recensione su un libro impossibile da leggere, uno di quei libri non legati alla quotidianità, non di quelli che si comprano perché di moda, perché ne parlano i giornali, si è visto e sentito l'autore in TV o se n'è discusso in Rete. Non di libri e autori che appaiono e scompaiono, che vivono lo spazio di una stagione, magari anche vendendo migliaia di copie. Non di libri che hanno il fiato corto, finiscono nel dimenticatoio della storia della letteratura, appartengono a mezza generazione. Finiscono nella indifferenziata della cultura consumistica che divora tutto, sia i testi che i loro autori. Non di questi, bensì di libri che, pur diventati classici, difficilmente sono letti nella loro interezza.

Libri impossibili da leggere perchè troppo impegnativi, spesso inavvicinabili dall'uomo comune, perché difficili nella forma e nei contenuti. Troppo concettuali, intellettuali, di cui però tutti ne parlano, li citano e menano vanto di conoscere, ma nessuno li ha veramente letti. Ne volete qualche esempio? Per motivi personali e professionali ne ricordo qualcuno, chi legge avrà memoria di altri. Sono scelte quanto mai personali legate all'esperienza, alla professione, alle tendenze e proprie predisposizioni. Libri come l' "Ulisse", "La Veglia di Finnegan", entrambi di James Joyce, "La montagna incantata" di Thomas Mann, il "Silmarillion" di John Tolkien, "Il Nome della Rosa" di Umberto Eco, "Il Castello" di Franz Kafka, "Il Principe" di Machiavelli.

"I Canti Pisani" di Ezra Pound è uno di questi libri sui quali intendo soffermarmi. Un libro di fronte al quale chi legge si sente smarrito e sperduto per la dimensione sia spaziale e temporale che lo comprende, per il viaggio orizzontale e verticale che l'autore percorre attraverso la foresta dei simboli che caratterizza l'esperienza umana. La sola storia di Ezra Pound è di per sé un "classico". Per poter comprendere l'universalità che questo grande libro esprime, credo non ci sia migliore descrizione di quella che ne fece sessanta anni fa Eugenio Montale. Ecco quanto scrisse:

"I Canti Pisani" sono una sinfonia non di parole, ma di frasi in libertà. Non siamo tuttavia nel caos perché queste frasi sono legate da un "montaggio" che supera di gran lunga, per apparente incoerenza, quello di qualche parte dell' "Ulysses" e dell'eliotiana "Waste Land". Si tratta però di un montaggio di cui sfugge totalmente il connettivo, il nesso conduttore. Immaginate che si possa radiografare il pensiero di un condannato a morte dieci minuti prima dell'esecuzione capitale, e supponete che il condannato sia un uomo della statura di Pound e avrete i "Canti Pisani": un poema che è la fulminea ricapitolazione della storia del mondo (di un mondo), senza alcun legame o rapporto di tempo e di spazio (...) Migliaia di personaggi, fitto intarsio di citazioni in ogni lingua, ideogrammi cinesi, brani di musica, allusioni a tutto ciò che per cinquant'anni ha alimentato, nella storia, nella filosofia, nella medicina, nell'economia e nell'arte il pensiero moderno, non senza salti vertiginosi nel mondo del mito e della preistoria (....). L'interesse è però ravvivato dal fatto che qua è la', in questi canti di prigioniero, intravediamo un Pound nuovo, provato dal dolore, una voce che piange, che geme, che soffre; e sentiamo allora che il gioco diventa serio e lo spettacolo del clown si fa tragedia".

Non credo si possa aggiungere altro. Un libro universale che comprende spazio e tempo, che va oltre il soggetto e diventa oggetto, significato e significante nella dimensione dell'essere e del divenire. Un libro davvero per tutti e per nessuno. Tutti sono sfidati ad entrare nella mente del poeta che scrive, prigioniero di se stesso e del mondo. Pochi sapranno leggere il suo messaggio arrivando fino in fondo. Lo dice chiaramente "il grande fabbro" Pound nel canto 81, parlando della vanità dell'essere e del mondo.

Quello che veramente ami rimane,
il resto è scorie
Quello che veramente ami non ti sarà strappato
Quello che veramente ami è la tua vera eredità
Il mondo a chi appartiene, a me, a loro
o a nessuno?
Prima venne il visibile, quindi il palpabile
Elisio, sebbene fosse nelle dimore d’inferno,
Quello che veramente ami è la tua vera eredità
La formica è un centauro nel suo mondo di draghi.
Strappa da te la vanità, non fu l’uomo
A creare il coraggio, o l’ordine, o la grazia,
Strappa da te la vanità, ti dico strappala
Impara dal mondo verde quale sia il tuo luogo
Nella misura dell’invenzione, o nella vera abilità dell’artefice,
Strappa da te la vanità,
Paquin strappala!
Il casco verde ha vinto la tua eleganza.
“Dominati, e gli altri ti sopporteranno”
Strappa da te la vanità
Sei un cane bastonato sotto la grandine,
Una pica rigonfia in uno spasimo di sole,
Metà nero metà bianco
Né distingui un’ala da una coda
Strappa da te la vanita’
Come son meschini i tuoi rancori
Nutriti di falsità.
Strappa da te la vanità,
Avido di distruggere, avaro di carità,
Strappa da te la vanità,
Ti dico strappala.
Ma avere fatto in luogo di non avere fatto
questa non è vanità. Avere, con discrezione, bussato
Perché un Blunt aprisse
Aver raccolto dal vento una tradizione viva
o da un bell’occhio antico la fiamma inviolata
Questa non è vanità.
Qui l’errore è in ciò che non si è fatto, nella diffidenza che fece esitare.

Ezra Pound,
"Pisan Cantos"
(Canto 81)
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AntonioGallo | 14 andere besprekingen | Nov 1, 2023 |
This very thin book of poetry shows us that even 3,000 years ago, men and women were going through the exact same issues we go through today when it comes to love.

Ezra Pound gets the opening verses, a piece called "Conversations in Courtship." I don't know how much liberty was taken with the placement of this conversation, but it is comical that after a few obsessive statements about a man's love for a woman, the woman barely gets to respond before we have to hear from her disapproving mother- "the mere thought of him is revolting". The couple watch each other from afar, afraid to expose their infatuation to the public. This is a nice set of lyrics that captures perfectly the internal turmoil love can bring. Some of the situations are odd- the girl being possibly passed around by the boy's friends, and the praying to multiple gods and goddesses, but Pound's voice comes through. "Love Lyrics" opens with a little more sensuality, also showing the extremes a man and a woman would go through to be with their soulmate. "More Love Lyrics" is more of the same, comparing being in love to being drunk without wine. "Pleasant Songs of the Sweetheart Who Meets You in the Fields" is a sad story of a young woman so in love, her field work suffers. She finally becomes the mistress of her man's house, first among his women, before he meets someone else. "Pleasant Songs" offers some nice fragments, while "Garden Songs" follows the courtship from the point of view of an actual garden, it seems. The problem is in the conjugation of some of the verbs, common with most of these poems. The ironically titled "Sweet Phrases" shows the downside of love. Drunkenness, infidelity, and seduction are touched upon in this angry set. "Haste" is simply two lovers trying to meet as soon as possible.

Only the opening conversation is credited to Pound, so I must assume the other verses were done by Stock. The accompanying artwork, by Tom di Grazia, is very good, and the introduction explains that while many of the poems are only found in fragments, they are presented here as complete. "Come Swiftly to Your Love: Love Poems of Ancient Egypt" is a nice, short set that can easily be read in a few minutes. It shows the reader that anything they may be going through with their respective partner are issues that have been around for millennia. Ezra Pound and Noel Stock capture that very nicely. Recommended to poetry lovers, and lovers in general.
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