| The Spirit of Romance: Survey of Romance Literature Contributor(s): Pound, Ezra (Author), Sieburth, Richard (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0811216462 ISBN-13: 9780811216463 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2005 Annotation: Dating from 1910 and subtitled ""An attempt to Define Somewhat the Charm of the Pre-Renaissance Literature of Latin Europe"," The Spirit of Romance is one of the key books in Ezra Pound's revaluation of literary tradition. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | Medieval |
| Dewey: 809.13 |
| LCCN: 2005022154 |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.44" W x 7.96" (0.61 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Written in 1910 when Pound was only 25 years old, and later revised by the author, this critical work has long stood as an important stage in the development of Pound's poetics, and a dramatic revaluation of Europe's literary tradition. Pound surveys the course of literature from the fall of the Roman Empire through the dawn of the Renaissance, paying special attention to the Proven al poets and to Dante. Now with an introduction by Richard Sieburth, this work illuminates a great period in European literature and one of America's greatest poetic minds. |
Contributor Bio(s): Sieburth, Richard: - Award-winning translator, scholar, and essayist Richard Sieburth has translated books by Henri Michaux, Friedrich Hölderlin, Louise Labé, Gérard de Nerval, and Nostradamus.Pound, Ezra: - New Directions has been the primary publisher of Ezra Pound in the U.S. since the founding of the press when James Laughlin published New Directions in Prose and Poetry 1936. That year Pound was fifty-one. In Laughlin's first letter to Pound, he wrote: "Expect, please, no fireworks. I am bourgeois-born (Pittsburgh); have never missed a meal. . . . But full of 'noble caring' for something as inconceivable as the future of decent letters in the US." Little did Pound know that into the twenty-first century the fireworks would keep exploding as readers continue to find his books relevant and meaningful. |