A range of essays on The Cantos showcasing the numerous aspects by which the poem can be approached. With an unusual contribution against the Commedia as model. First edition, the only available in hardback. With a little light wear to the boards. David Moody’s annotations, mostly to Makin’s introduction.

Contents: Peter Makin, “Introduction”; Hugh Kenner, “Ezra Pound”; Guy Davenport, “Persephone’s Ezra”; Girolamo Mancuso, “The Ideogrammic Method in The Cantos”; Reed Way Dasenbrock, “Why the Commedia Is Not the Model for The Cantos and What Is”; Peter Makin, “History and Money, Fact and Hysteria”; Massimo Bacigalupo, ‘“Safe with My Lynxes”: Pound’s Figure in the Carpet?’; Kevin Oderman, “Extracts from Ezra Pound and the Erotic Medium”; Peter Nicholls, “A Metaphysics of the State”; Hugh Kenner, “Inventing Confucius”; D. S. Carne-Ross, “The Music of a Lost Dynasty: Pound in the Classroom”; Donald Davie, “Res and Verba in Rock-Drill and After”; Ronald Bush, ‘“Unstill, Ever Turning”: The Composition of Ezra Pound’s Drafts & Fragments’; D. G. Bridson, “An Interview with Ezra Pound”; Donald Hall, “Ezra Pound: An Interview.”