Exultations
Ezra Pound · 1909
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Description
Ezra Pound, a young American poet in London, published Exultations in 1909. It was his third small book in little more than a year. Pound was teaching himself poetry by raiding the past, and this collection leans hard toward the medieval troubadours of Provence.
The poems include translations and imitations of troubadour songs, full of spring mornings, distant ladies, and formal praise. Early original lyrics stand beside them, already showing Pound's drive toward exact, musical speech. The medievalist and the modernist in Pound are both visible here, side by side. Exultations is a workshop book: readers can watch a revolutionary poet gathering his tools from a thousand years of verse.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ezra Pound |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1909 |
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg ebook #40200 |