Ezra Pound
Bibliography
PRIMARY SOURCES
Poems
- A Lume Spento. Venice 1908.
- Personae of Ezra Pound. London: Elkin Mathews 1909.
- Personae of Ezra Pound. London: Elkin Mathews 1909.
- Canzoni of Ezra Pound. London: Elkin Mathews 1911.
- Ripostes of Ezra Pound. London: S. Swift and Co. 1912.
- Personae and Exultations of Ezra Pound. London: Elkin Mathews 1913.
- Canzoni and Ripostes of Ezra Pound. London: Elkin Mathews 1913.
- Des Imagistes: An Anthology. New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1914.
- Cathay. London: Elkin Mathews 1915.
- Lustra of Ezra Pound.London: Elkin Mathews 1916.
- Quia Pauper Amavi. London: The Egoist Ltd 1919.
- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. London: The Ovid Press 1920.
- Poems 1918-1921. New York: Boni and Liverlight 1921.
All these collections havebeen superseded today by:
- Personae: The Shorter Poems. Revised edition by Lea Baechler and A. Walton Litz. NewYork: New Directions 1970.
- Selected Poems. Edited with an introduction by T.S. Eliot. London: Faber and Faber, 1948.
- Collected Early Poems of Ezra Pound. Edited by Michael John King ; with an introd. by Louis L. Martz. New York: New Directions 1976.
- Selected Poems. New York: New Directions 1956.
- Selected Cantos. New York: New Directions 1956.
- The Pisan Cantos. New York: New Directions 1948
- Drafts & Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII by Ezra Pound. New York: New Directions 1968.
- Thrones; 96-109 de los Cantares. New York: New Directions 1959.
- The Cantos of Ezra Pound. (1916-1968) New York: New Directions 1971.
- I highly recommend the only heavily annotated edition of Pound's Cantos which is a (Spanish/English bilingual) by Javier Coy:
- Ezra Pound. Cantares Completos. Bilingual edition 3 vols. edited and annotated by Javier Coy and translated by José Vázquez Amaral. Madrid: Cátedra 1994, 1996, 2000.
Prose
- The Spirit of Romance (1910). New York: New Directions 1968.
- Make It New (1934) New Haven: Yale UP, 1935; London: Faber and Faber 1934.NY: New Directions 1940.
- Polite Essays (1937) London: Faber and Faber 1937.
- Guide to Kulchur. NY: New Directions 1938; NY: New Directions 1970.
- Literary Essays of Ezra Pound (1935). with an Introduction by T. S. Eliot. New York: New Directions 1968.
- Selected Prose, 1909-1965 of Ezra Pound: edited, with an introduction, by William Cookson. London: Faber 1973.
- Gaudier-Brzeska, a memoir (1916). London and New York: John Lane, 1916; London:Laidlaw and Laidlaw,1939; New York: New Directions 1970.
- Pavannes and Divisions (1918). New York: Knopf 1918.
- Pavannes and Divagations. New York: New Directions 1958.
- Instigations of Ezra Pound, together with an essay on the Chinese written character by Ernest Fenollosa. New York: Boni and Liverlight 1920; Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries P 1967.
- Indiscretions, or une Revue de deux mondes. Paris: Three Mountains Press 1923.
- Antheil and The Treatise on Harmony by Ezra Pound (1925). Paris: Three Mountains Press 1924; New introd. by Ned Rorem. New York: Da Capo P, 1968.
- ABC of Economics (1933). London: Faber and Faber 1933; New York: New Directions 1970.
- ABC of Reading (1934). London: Routledge 1934; New York: New Directions 1951.
- Social Credit: an Impact (1935). London: S. Nott 1935.
- Jefferson and/or Mussolini ; L'idea statale; fascism as I have seen it. New York: Liveright, 1936.
- An Introduction to the Economic Nature of the United States (1950). Translated from the italian by Carmine Amore. London: Peter Russell 1950.
- "Ezra Pound speaking": radio speeches of World War II . Edited by Leonard W. Doob. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood P, 1978.
- Ezra Pound's Poetry and Contribution to Periodicals. Ed. Lea Baechler, A. Walton Litz and james Longenbach. New York: Garland, 1991.
Correspondence:
- Letters, 1907-1941. Edited by D. D. Paige. New York: Harcourt, Brace 1950.
- Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakeaspear: Their Letters 1909 - 1914. Ed. Omar Pound and A. Walton Litz. New York: New Directions 1984.
- Pound/Joyce; the letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce, with Pound's essays on Joyce. Edited and with commentary by Forrest Read. New York: New Directions, 1967.
- Pound/Ford, the story of a literary friendship: the correspondence between Ezra Pound and Ford Madox Ford and their writings about each other. Edited and with an introduction and narrative commentary and notes by Brita Lindberg Seyersted. New York: New Directions, 1982.
Miscellanea:
- Love poems of Ancient Egypt, translated by Ezra Pound and Noel Stock. Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions 1962. The Unwobbling Pivot and the Great Digest.New York: New Directions 1947. The Classic Anthology Defined by Confucius. translated by Ezra Pound. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1954.
- The Natural Philosophy of Love (1904), by Remy de Gourmont. Translated with an Introduction by Ezra Pound.London: Casanova Socirety 1926. London: Quartet Encounters 1992.
- Elektra: a play. Translated by Ezra Pound and Rudd Fleming; edited and annotated by Richard Reid. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton U P, 1989.
- Ezra Pound: Translations. With an Introduction by Hugh Kenner. New York: New Directions, 1963.
- Ezra Pound and the Visual arts. Edited with an introduction by Harriet Zinnes. New York: New Directions, 1980.
SECONDARY SOURCES
Guides:
- Froula, Christine. A Guide to Ezra Pound's Selected Poems. New York: New Directions, 1983.
- Brooker, Peter. A Student's Guide to the Selectd Poems of Ezra Pound. London: Faber and Faber 1979.
- Kearns, George. Guide to Ezra Pound's Selected Cantos. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers U P, 1980.
- Terrell, Carroll F. A Companion to the Cantos of Ezra Pound. Berkeley: U of California P, 1980, 1984.
Biographical Sources:
- Carpenter, Humphrey. A Sserious Character: the Life of Ezra Pound. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988.
- Fraser, G. S. Ezra Pound. NY: Grove P 1961, 1960.
- Heymann, C. David. Ezra Pound, the Last Rower: a Political Profile. NY: Viking P, 1976.
- Kenner, Hugh. The Pound Era. Berkeley, U of California P, 1971.
- Stock, Noel. The life of Ezra Pound. NY: Pantheon Books 1970.
- Wallace, Emily M. "Some Friends of Ezra Pound: A Photographic Essay." Yale Review 75.3 (1986): 331-56.
- Wilhelm, J. J. Ezra Pound in London and Paris: 1908-1925. U Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1990.
- - - -. Ezra Pound: The Tragic Years: 1925-1972. U Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1994.
Criticism:
- Ackroyd, Peter. Ezra Pound and his World. New York: Scribner, 1980.
- Alexander, Michael J. The Poetic Achievement of Ezra Pound. Berkeley: U of California P, 1979.
- Bacigalupo, Massimo. The Formed Trace: the Later Poetry of Ezra Pound. New York: Columbia U P, 1980.
- Beach, Christopher. ABC of Influence: Ezra Pound and the Remaking of American Poetic Tradition. Berkeley: U of California P, 1992.
- Bell, Ian F. A. Critic as Scientist: the Modernist Poetics of Ezra Pound. New York: Methuen, 1981.
- Bloom, Harold. ed. Ezra Pound. NY: Chelsea, 1987.
- Bornstein, George. ed. Ezra Pound among the Poets. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1985.
- Brooke-Rose, Christine. A ZBC of Ezra Pound. Berkeley, U of California P, 1971.
- Bush, Ronald. The genesis of Ezra Pound's Cantos. Princeton: Princeton UP 1976.
- Coyle, Michael. Ezra Pound, Popular Genres, and the Discourse of Culture. U Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1995
- Dasenbrock, Reed W. Imitating the Italians. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP 1991.
- Davie, Donald. Ezra Pound: Poet as Sculptor. New York: Oxford U P, 1964.
- Dembo, L. S. The Confucian Odes of Ezra Pound; a Critical Appraisal. Berkeley, U of Califonia P, 1963.
- Flory, Wendy S. The American Ezra Pound. New Haven: Yale UP, 1989.
- ---. Ezra Pound and The Cantos: A Record of Struggle. New Haven: Yale UP 1980.
- Gallup, Donald C. Ezra Pound, a bibliography. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1983.
- Gibson, Mary E. Epic Reinvented: Ezra Pound and the Victorians. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1995.
- Harmon, William. Time in Ezra Pound's Work. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1977.
- Homberger, Eric. Ezra Pound: the Critical Heritage. Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972.
- Jackson, Thomas H. The Early Poetry of Ezra Pound. Cambridge, Harvard UP, 1968.
- Kaye, Jacqueline. ed. Ezra Pound and America. New York: St. Martin's, 1992.
- Kenner, Hugh. The Pound Era. Berkeley: U of California P 1971.
- ---. The Poetry of Ezra Pound. London: Faber and Faber 1951.
- Korn, Marianne. ed. Ezra Pound and History. Orono: U of Maine, 1985.
Kuberski, Philip. A Calculus of Ezra Pound: Vocations of the American Sign. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1992.
- Levy, Alan. Ezra Pound, the Voice of Silence. Sag Harbor, N.Y.: Permanent P, 1983.
- Makin, Peter. Pound's Cantos. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP 1985.
- ---. Provence and Pound. Berkeley: U of California P 1978.
- Qian, Zhaoming. Orientalism and Modernism.Durham: Duke UP, 1995.
- Quinn, Mary B. Ezra Pound; an Introduction to the Poetry. New York: Columbia U P, 1972.
- Robinson, Alan. Symbol to Vortex: Poetry, Painting, and Ideas, 1885-1914. New York: St. Martin's P, 1985.
- Sicari, Stephen. Pound's Epic Ambition. New York: State U of New York P 1991.
- Stanford, Donald E. Revolution and Convention in Modern Poetry: Studies in Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and Yvor Winters. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1983.
- Stock, Noel. ed. Pound Ezra, 1885-1972: Ezra Pound perspectives; Essays in Honor of his Eightieth Birthday. Chicago, H. Regnery Co. 1965.
- Surette, Leon. Light from Eleusis: A Study of the Cantos of Ezra Pound. Oxford: Clarendon, 1979.
- - - -. The Birth of Modernism: Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats and the Occult. Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 1993.
- - - -, and Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos. eds. I Cease not to Yowl: Ezra Pound's Letters to Olivia Rossetti Agresti. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1998.
- Tiffany, Daniel. Radio Corpse: Imagism and the Cryptaesthetic of Ezra Pound. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1995.
- Torrey, E. Fuller. The Roots of Treason: Ezra Pound and the Secret of St. Elizabeths. New York: McGraw Hill, 1984.
- Tsukui, Nobuko. Ezra Pound and Japanese Noh Plays. Washington, DC: UP of America, 1983.
- Wilhelm, James. Dante and Pound. The Epic Judgement. Orono: U of Maine P 1974.
- ---. Il Miglior Fabbro. Orono: National Poetry Foundation 1982.
- Witemeyer, Hugh. The Poetry of Ezra Pound. Forms and Renewal, 1908-1920. Berkeley: U of California P, 1969.