| Περίληψη: | This new Faber edition replaces Selected Poems 1908-1969, and is intended to articulate Pound for the twenty-first century. Emphasis has been laid on the interpenetration of early and late work, and of original composition and translation within Pound's career: including the complete 'Homage to Sextus Propertius' in its original lineation; early translations from Cavalcanti, Heine and the troubadours; and Pound's late translations of Sophocles, Horace and the Confucian Odes. As a lifelong expatriate, Pound parcelled out his work to a variety of publishers and journals in England, America, France and Italy. This edition takes account of this complex publishing history by giving the poems in the chronological order of their original magazine publication: we can thereby observe Pound as he first emerges onto the literary scene in the pages of Ford Madox Ford's English Review or Harriet Monroe's Chicago-based Poetry, or acting as an agent provocateur in such avant-garde publications as Blast, the Little Review or the Dial. Unlike previous selections, Richard Sieburth's edition provides annotation to the early poems as well as a commentarv on the later Cantos - indispensible to any reader wanting to follow Pound in his epic odyssey through ancient China, medieval Provence, the Italian Renaissance, the early years of the American Republic, and the darkness of the twentieth century. (...) (from the publisher)
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