Ezra Pound
This Web page has information to help researchers find materials related to the author Ezra Pound 1885-1972. While aimed at E505B students, anyone doing research on the poet should find the page useful.
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Books
Books are a key resource for literary research. Books by and about Ezra Pound can be found at call number PS 3531 .O82; there are over four shelves of books in Morgan Library. They are located in the lower level (basement) of the building. Do an author search (last name first) in the library catalog SAGE to find his poetry, prose, letters, translations, etc.
Those interested in reading criticism of his cantos should do a subject search in the library catalog SAGE for:
Pound Ezra 1885 1972 Cantos
His letters may be more easily found by doing a subject search for:
Pound Ezra 1885 1972 Correspondence
There are 82 subjects for Pound, Ezra 1885 1972; it would be worth glancing through them all.
Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 13, 18, 34, 48, 50, and 112. PN 771 .C617 Reference
This reference book has biographical information and articles of literary criticism on Pound. Parts of this reference book, Select, are available online to CSU affiliates. "Also known as: Ezra Weston Loomis Pound, William Atheling, The Poet of Titchfield Street, Alfred Venison."
Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vols. 4, 45, and 63. PS 221 .D5 Reference
This reference book has extensive essays on included authors. Three volumes (numbers above) have entries on Pound.
Journal
Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship. PS 3531 .O82Z7855 Journal Room. Older issues 1974-1975,1978- on Movable Shelves.
Articles
For literature, and therefore Ezra Pound, there are three indexes that provide the most sources for research on the author and his works. The indexes are MLA Bibliography, Academic Search Premier, and Humanities Index. However, there are additional indexes of interest, listed below. See the Web page on Woolf for details on searching the databases.
Search the MLA Bibliography for articles, book chapters, etc. After finding a citation, check SAGE to see if CSU owns the journal or book.
There are many entries on Ezra Pound in MLA (as of January 2008 there are over 3300 subject entries for "Pound, Ezra").
To eliminate the book reviews from your search, do a people search for "Pound, Ezra" not books-reviews (PE Pound, Ezra, NOT books-reviews). Same software as MLA above. There are over 250 records on Pound in Academic Search Premier. Some of the records are for a more general audience than MLA, and may be very useful. You can also limit your results, under "search options," to scholarly articles (this option is not found in MLA--generally speaking, everything in MLA is scholarly).
Humanities Index (AI 3 .I495 Reference South 1974-98; online 1984- ). Online (different publisher, similar subject coverage): Humanities International Index Varies.
Over 1300 articles about or mention Ezra Pound and his works/influence in the online database; in over 750 (January 2008) he is mentioned as a subject.
Subject Terms: POUND, Ezra
2650 articles about Pound (over 7100, including reviews; limit to articles to identify articles only). All full text.
Over 55 records with Pound, Ezra as a LC Subject. All articles are full text and may be viewed in HTML or PDF. Do a LC Subject search or "All Fields Except Text" because the "all fields w/text" brings up hundreds of irrelevant articles.
Essay & General Literature Index.
Citations to book chapters. Over 180 records for default search: Pound, Ezra 1885-1972. There are a number of subdivisions. For example, DE "Pound, Ezra 1885-1972--About individual works--The cantos" brings up 18 entries (January 2008).
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (via Web of Science).
Over 1500 citations.
Electronic Collections Online.(ECO.)
Over 75 citations.
New York Times Historical 1851-.
Quite a large number of items of interest can be found in this newspaper. There are display ads for Pound's books (with quotes from reviewers, in some cases). Do a search for "Ezra Pound" and one of his works to find articles of interest. Or wade through over 2500 entries with his name. Entries begin in 1910 and continue to the present. Most of these are notices of Pound's work in anthologies and other collections, so this database will not be very fruitful for the serious researcher.
Pound on the Web
Some of these sites have pop-ups, so be careful about possible viruses, etc.
Ezra Pound (1885-1972). Twentieth-century Poetry in English. Eiichi Hishikawa. Faculty of Letters, Kobe University.
Biographical information (chronological), bibliography divided by subtopics, discography, filmography, library collections, and more.
Ezra Pound. Poetry Exhibits, the American Academy of Poetry.
Selected bibliography. Scroll down to see links to other exhibits/essays on the Web.
Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972). Poets @ internal.org
Brief biography and full texts of over 50 poems.
Ezra Pound and the Occult. Modernism: The Salons. William Marling (?). Case Western University
Links with brief annotations. Main page has link to audio with Pound reading canto 1 and has links to biographies, bibliographies, and photos of Pound.
Ezra Pound (1885-1972). 1998-2007 by Donna J. Pridmore.
"A selective bibliography of 51 active links for Ezra Pound, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages."
Selected Poetry of Ezra Loomis Pound (1885-1972). Representative Poetry Online. Department of English at the University of Toronto.
13 poems, notes on life and works, bibliography, some online annotations.
Chapter 7: Early Twentieth Century - Ezra Pound (1885-1972). PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide. © Paul P. Reuben.
Primary Works, Selected Bibliography: Biographical, Critical: Books, Critical: Articles.
Additional Poems by Ezra Pound. Modern American Poetry.
A few poems, full text.
Ezra Pound an Fenollosa. (C) 1997 Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Images from three items sent to Pound in 1913. Image of one of Pound's typescripts. Links at foot of page go to Web pages on other modernists; from an exhibition.
Modernist Journals Project. Brown University and the University of Tulsa.
Digital copies of journals, books, essays, etc. Journals include: Blast; The Blue Review; Coterie; Dana; The English Review; The New Age; The Owl; Le Petit Journal des Réfusées; Rhythm; The Tyro; and Wheels. Periodicals end in 1922. This site is "intended to become a major resource for the study of the rise of modernism in the English-speaking world, with periodical literature at the center of this study. As such, its historical scope has a chronological range of 1890 to 1922, and a geographical range that extends to English language periodicals, wherever they were published."
Ezra Pound (1885-1972). Poemhunter.com.
This site is saturated with many ads, including pop-ups. 80 of Pound's poems available to be read online. Foot of poems has options to search by topic or theme--which pull up poems by other authors.
Robert Anton Wilson commentary on The Cantos of Ezra Pound.
Poetic commentary on Canto II.
Ezra Pound. Edited by Richard Sieburth. Penn Sound at the University of Pennsylvania.
Links to audio recordings, many of them of cantos, but there are other materials as well. "These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. Except as indicated above, all rights to this recorded material belong to, and are © 2006 by, the heirs of Ezra Pound, Mary de Rachewiltz and Omar S. Pound, and New Directions Publishing Corp, agent for the heirs."
Ezra Pound 5. YouTube.
Audio of Pound with images of him walking and sitting (as an old man). Not the highest quality images, but audio is very good. There are others: Ezra Pound 4 (just his voice and 32 seconds), etc.
Ezra Pound - Life Stories, Books, and Links. Today in Literature.
Biographical Information; Stories about Ezra Pound; Selected works by this author; Selected books about/related to this author; Recommended links (annotated).
Ezra Pound (1885-1972): Classroom Issues and Strategies. Contributing Editor: Betsy Erkkila.
Ideas for teaching Pound. Comparisons to other writers.
Ezra Pound in His Time and Beyond: The Influence of Ezra Pound on Twentieth Century Poetry. University of Delaware Library.
Part of a special collections exhibit, there are links with brief information about Pound's influence. (These are on the right hand side--the links are not obvious.) Each entry has a bibliography and cover images of primary sources.
Poetry to Fascism: The Life of Ezra Pound. Robert Edmiston. Echoes.
These pages are difficult to read because is has purple lettering on a black background. The initial page has brief biographical information. At the top of the page are links to sample poems (brief explication) and inspirational poems by Pound.
Hypertext (Pound and in General)
KYBERNEKYIA: A Hypervortext of Ezra Pound's Canto LXXXI. Concept & editing Ned Bates. Project director Gail Mcdonald.
"This project is intended as a pedantic experiment. Thus the rights for the texts, graphics and sounds used in the creation of Kybernekyia have not been obtained. Kybernekyia uses these materials in the spirit of an academic paper for the explication of Pound's Canto LXXXI. No profit has been obtained from the use of these materials."
Hypertext Companion to the Cantos of Ezra Pound. Unnamed authors. Westminster College.
Click on photo to enter. Currently there are selections from two of the Cantos (links found on left-hand side), but the site owners hope to add more.
English 434: Hypertext in Theory and Practice. Timothy Materer, English Dept., U. of Missouri. Winter 1997.
Seminar outline that discusses "works that anticipate and parallel the development of hypertext," including Pound's Cantos. This will be useful for the exploration of hypertexts in general.
Reading, Scholarship, and Hypertext Editions. John Lavagnino.
Discusses hypertext. "This paper was published in TEXT: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship, volume 8, in 1995, pages 109-124; it is made available here by permission of the STS."
Cantos XLV. A Hypertext Translation of Ezra Pound's Poem. Brendon Keresey.
One person's hypertext version of Cantos XLV.
Collaborative Hypertext Teaching Projects in the University of Saskatchewan English Department. Peter Stoicheff, 2002
Essay discussing hypertext, with literary examples, including Pound's Cantos.
As in all research, be sure to carefully evaluate whatever you read, be it a book, article, or Web page.
See also Milton, Chaucer, Poe, O'Connor, William Carlos Williams & Wallace Stevens, Dickinson & Wright, Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, and Shakespeare.