O Pound o Céline, o Céline o Pound, periodicamente... Regaliamo alla destra un certo numero degli intellettuali di sinistra, che purtroppo sovrabbondano [SGA].
David Moody: Ezra Pound: Poet. The Epic Years 1921-1939, Oxford University Press, pagg. 422 £ 25
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This second volume of A. David Moody's full-scale portrait, covering
Ezra Pound's middle years, weaves together into a single highly readable
and challenging narrative, in a way that has not been done before, the
illuminating story of his life, his achievement as a poet and a
composer, and his one-man crusade for economic justice.
There
is new insight into his complicated personal relationships. There are
detailed accounts of the composition of his two operas and of his
original contribution to the theory of harmony. A canto by canto and
decad by decad elucidation of the form and meaning of the first
seventy-one cantos of his epic reveals their hitherto unperceived
musical structures and their overall design. The thinking behind his
support for Mussolini's economic programme during the Great Depression
of the 1930s is brought to light, and shown to be not "fascist" but
essentially true to the principles of the American Revolution, and,
behind that, to Confucian ideas of responsible government. At the same
time it is made clear that he saw only what he wanted to see in
Mussolini's Fascism, and later in Hitler's Nazism, and was blind to
their darker policies. And it is clear that he went most seriously
wrong in deploying, as a weapon in his war on the injustice of the
capitalist financial system, the anti-Semitism endemic in Europe and
America and at that time turning murderous in Nazi Germany.
Pound is revealed as a great poet and a flawed idealist caught up in the
turmoil of his darkening time and struggling, sometimes blindly and in
error and self-contradiction, to be a force for enlightenment.
A third volume will carry on the narrative of his life and works from 1939 to his death in 1972.
Negli anni Venti e Trenta si concentra la maggior attività del poeta. Fra sperimentazioni, politica e mecenatismo
Luca Gallesi - il Giornale Sab, 06/12/2014
In this second volume of A David Moody’s biography, the controversial
poet, creator of The Cantos, is preoccupied by music and MussoliniDavid Trotter Guardian Thursday 23 October 2014
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Ezra Pound Poet: Volume II. The Epic Years 1921-1939 by A. David Moody: Review
One of the most influential poets of the 20th century is an anti-Semitic fascist; here's an attempt to understand him.
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