Ezra Pound : Volume II: the Epic Years.

Cover -- EZRA POUND : POET: A Portrait of the Man and his Work -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- CHRONOLOGY -- PLATE -- PART ONE : 1921-1932 -- 1 : A YEAR IN P A R I S , 1921-1924 -- Nature, genius, and the state of the world -- Canto II: seeing the light -- 'Le Testament' or Pound's Villon: in the dark -- A new theory of harmony -- Year 1 of a new era: kaleidoscope -- A renaissance man -- Life and times: 1923-192 -- 2 : FROM RAPALLO, 1924-1932 -- Human complications -- Saving the world by pure form -- A sextant for 'A Draft of XXX Cantos' -- Literary relations old and new -- In the sphere of action -- Cavalcanti: the intelligence of love -- Threads, tesserae -- PART TWO : 1933-1939 -- 3 : ADEMOCRAT IN I T A L Y, 1933 -- Il Poeta meets Il Duce -- Revolutionary economics -- Making music of history: 'Cantos 31-41' -- Note: A historian, the Bank Wars, and the New Deal -- 4 : TH I N G S F AL L AP A R T ,1933-1937 -- To spread order about him -- The turning point: 1935-1936 -- 'The boss knows his business' -- Music, money, cantos -- 'The Fifth Decad': against Usura -- The form and pressure of the time -- 5 : IDEAS OF ORDER, 1937-1939 -- 'Immediate need of Confucius' -- Signor Mussolini speaks -- To educate -- Anschluss -- Going wrong, thinking of rightness -- Czechoslovakia sacrificed -- Comings and goings -- The end of Czechoslovakia -- Two books for governors: (1) cantos 52-61 -- Two books for governors: (2) cantos 62-71 -- 6 : AL I E N I N AMERICA -- APPENDICES -- A. Outline of Pound's Le Testament or Villon -- B. A brief history of Le Testament or Villon -- C. Outline of Cavalcanti. A sung dramedy in 3 acts -- D. EP, 'Huey, God bless him', an unpublished article intended for New Democracy, enclosed with a letter to Gorham Munson dated' 13 or 14 Aug. [1935]' (HRC).

E. The founding of the Bank of England, and the US National Banking Act (46/233) -- ABBREVIATIONS -- The Principal Writings of Ezra Pound (1885-1972) -- Writings by Others -- Other Abbreviations -- NOTES -- PART ONE: 1921-1932 -- 1. AYEAR IN PARIS, 1921-1924 -- Nature, genius, and the state of the world -- Canto II: seeing the light -- 'Le Testament' or Pound's Villon: in the dark -- A new theory of harmony -- Year 1 of a new era: kaleidoscope -- A renaissance man -- Life and times: 1923-1924 -- 2. FROM RAPALLO, 1924-1932 -- Human complications -- Saving the world by pure form -- A sextant for 'A Draft of XXX Cantos' -- Literary relations old and new -- In the sphere of action -- Cavalcanti: the intelligence of love -- Threads, tesserae -- PART TWO: 1933-1939 -- 3. ADEMOCRAT IN ITALY, 1933 -- Il Poeta meets Il Duce -- Revolutionary economics -- Making music of history: 'Cantos 31-41' -- Note: A historian, the Bank Wars, and the New Deal -- 4. THINGS FALL APART, 1933-1937 -- To spread order about him -- The turning point: 1935-1936 -- 'The boss knows his business' -- Music, money, cantos -- 'The Fifth Decad': against Usura -- The form and pressure of the time -- 5. IDEAS OF ORDER, 1937-1939 -- 'Immediate need of Confucius' -- Signor Mussolini speaks -- To educate -- Anschluss -- Going wrong, thinking of rightness -- Czechoslovakia sacrificed -- Comings and goings -- The end of Czechoslovakia -- Two books for governors: (1) cantos 52-61 -- Two books for governors: (2) cantos 62-71 -- 6. ALIEN IN AMERICA -- APPENDIX C. OUTLINE OF CAVALCANTI. A SUNG DRAMEDY IN 3 ACTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE -- COPYRIGHT -- INDEX.

The long-awaited second volume of A. David Moody's acclaimed three-part biography. The Epic Years examines Pound's middle years, a period which was also his most productive.

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