GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY TO
THE CANTOS OF EZRA POUND
BOOKS
1933 – The Cantos of Ezra Pound. Some Testimonies by Ernest Hemingway, Ford Madox Ford, T. S. Eliot, Hugh Walpole, Archibald MacLeish, James Joyce and Others. 8vo, original self-wrappers, stapled. N. Y.: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., (1933). First edition. Among the other contributions, unnamed on the title-page, are William Carlos Williams, Edmund Wilson, Basil Bunting, H. D., and Allen Tate.
1949 – Russell Peter. The Pisan Cantos of Ezra Pound. Changing World.
1951 – Kenner, Hugh. The Poetry of Ezra Pound. London: Faber.
1952 – Watts, Harold Holliday. Ezra Pound and The Cantos. New York: Routlege. Hathi Trust.
1954 – Leary, Lewis. Motive and Method in the Cantos of Ezra Pound. New York: Columbia UP.
1957 – Edwards, John Hamilton and William Wood Vasse. Annotated Index to the Cantos of Ezra Pound. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press (Cantos 1-84). pdf.
1958 – Emery, Clark Mixon. Ideas Into Action: A Study of Pound’s Cantos. Miami: U of Miami P. Hathi Trust.
1963 – Dekker, George. Sailing after Knowledge: the Cantos of Ezra Pound. London: Routledge.
1963 – Zukofsky, Louis. Ezra Pound: His Cantos (1-27). New York: Kulchur Press.
1964 – Clark, Thomas. The Formal Structure of Pound’s Cantos. S.n.
1967 – Stock, Noel. Reading the Cantos: A Study of Meaning in Ezra Pound. London: Routledge.
1969 – MacLeish, Archibald. Poetry and opinion: The Pisan Cantos of Ezra Pound. A Dialog on the Role of Poetry. S.n.
1969 – Pearlman, Daniel D. The Barb of Time: On the Unity of Ezra Pound’s Cantos. Oxford: Oxford UP.
1970 – Baumann, Walter. The Rose in the Steel Dust: An Examination of the Cantos of Ezra Pound. Miami: U of Miami P.
1970 – Contino, Vittorugo. Ezra Pound in Italy, from the Pisan Cantos. Spots and Dots. Venezia: Ivancich.
1971 – Brooke-Rose Christine. A ZBC of Ezra Pound. London: Faber & Faber.
1971 – Miyake, Akiko. A Thematic and Structural Unity in Ezra Pound’s Eleven New Cantos. American Literature Society of Japan.
1971 – Hénault, Marie, ed. The Merrill Studies in The Cantos. Columbus, OH: Ch. Merrill Publishing Company.
1974 – Wilhelm, J. J. Dante and Pound: The Epic of Judgement. Orono: U. of Maine P.
1975 – Sanders, F. K. John Adams Speaking: Pound’s Sources for the Adams Cantos. U of Maine P.
1975 – Nassar, Eugene Paul. The Cantos of Ezra Pound: the Lyric Mode. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP.
1976 – Brooke-Rose Christine. Structural Analysis of Pound’s Usura Canto: Jakobson’s Method Extended. Berlin: Mouton DeGruyter.
1976 – Hood, Joseph S. Leaning toward Zen: A Study of Harmony and Disharmony in the Cantos of Ezra Pound. S.n.
1976 – Bush Ron. The Genesis of Ezra Pound’s Cantos. Princeton: Princeton UP.
1977 – Wilhelm, James J. The Later Cantos of Ezra Pound. New York: Walker.
1979 – Eastman, Barbara and Hugh Kenner. Ezra Pound’s Cantos: the Story of the Text, 1948-1975. Maine: National Poetry Foundation.
1979 – Surette, Leon. A Light from Eleusis: Study of Ezra Pound’s Cantos. Oxford: Oxford UP.
1980 – Bacigalupo, Massimo. The Forméd Trace. The Later Poetry of Ezra Pound. New York: Columbia UP.
1980 – Durant, E. Ezra Pound, Identity in Crisis: a Study of Writing in The Cantos. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
1980 – Flory, Wendy. Ezra Pound and the Cantos. A Record of Struggle. New Haven: Yale UP.
1980 – Kearns, George. Guide to Ezra Pound’s “Selected Cantos.” Folkestone: Dawson Publishing.
1980, 1984 – Terrell, Carroll. A Companion to the Cantos of Ezra Pound. Berkeley: U of California P vol.I: pdf. vol.2 pdf.
1980 – Woodward, Anthony. Ezra Pound and the Pisan Cantos. Lawbook Co of Australasia.
1981 – Dilligan Robert J. Concordance to Ezra Pound Cantos. New York: Garland.
1981 – Read, Forrest. ’76: One World and the Cantos of Ezra Pound. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
1982 – Kimpel, Ben D. Pound’s Research for the Malatesta Cantos. Orono: U of Maine.
1983 – Culver, Michael. The Art of Henry Strater: An examination of the Illustrations for Pound’s A Draft of XVI Cantos. Orono: U of Maine.
1983 – Davenport, Guy. Cities on Hills: Study 1-30 of Ezra Pound’s Cantos. Epping: Bowker (UMI 1984).
1983 – D’Epiro, Peter. Touch of Rhetoric: Ezra Pound’s Malatesta Cantos. Ann Arbor: UMI Research P.
1983 – Driscoll, John. The “China Cantos” of Ezra Pound. Stockholm: Almqvist and Wicksell.
1983 – Nolde, John J. Blossoms from the East: The China Cantos of Ezra Pound. Orono: National Poetry Foundation.
1984 – Davis, Kay. Fugue and Fresco: Structures in Pound’s Cantos. Orono: National Poetry Foundation.
1984 – Furia, Philip. Pound's Cantos Declassified. University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State UP.
1984 – Nicholls, Peter. Ezra Pound: Politics, Economics and Writing – A Study of The Cantos. London: Palgrave.
1985 – Cookson, William. A Reader’s Guide to the Cantos of Ezra Pound. New York: Croom Helm.
1985 – Froula, Christine. 'To Write Paradise': Style and Error in Pound’s Cantos. New Haven: Yale UP.
1985 – Makin, Peter. Pound’s Cantos. New York: Harper-Collins.
1986 – Rabaté, Jean-Michel. Language, Sexuality and Ideology in Ezra Pound’s “Cantos.” London: Palgrave.
1986 – Childs, J. S. Modernist Form. Pound's Style in the Early Cantos. Susquehanna UP.
1987 – Furia, Phillip. Pound’s Cantos Declassified. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State UP.
1988 – Bell, Terence Anthony. The Hero Polumetis: a New Interpretation of The Cantos of Ezra Pound. Oxford: Oxford UP.
1988 – Singh, Gurbhagat. Transcultural Poetics: Comparative Studies of Ezra Pound’s Cantos and Guru Gobind Singh’s Bachittra Natak. Blaby: Advent Books.
1989 – Kearns, George. Ezra Pound: The Cantos. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
1991 – Miyake, Akiko. Ezra Pound and the Mysteries of Love: A Plan for The Cantos. Durham, NC: Duke UP.
1991 – Rainey, Lawrence. Ezra Pound and the Monument of Culture: Text, History and the Malatesta Cantos. Chicago: Chicago UP.
1991 – Sicari, Stephen. Pound’s Epic Ambition: Dante and the Modern World. State U of New York P.
1991 – Taylor, Richard. Variorum Edition of ‘Three Cantos’ by Ezra Pound: A Prototype. Bayreuth: Boomerang Press.
1992 – Tryphonopoulos, Demetres. The Celestial Tradition: A Study of Ezra Pound’s “The Cantos.” Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
1995 – Brint, Terri Joseph. Ezra Pound’s Epic Variations: the Cantos & Major Long Poems. Orono: National Poetry Foundation.
1995 – John, Roland. A Beginner’s Guide to the Cantos of Ezra Pound. Poetry Salzburg.
1995 – Gibson, Mary Ellis. Epic Reinvented: Ezra Pound and the Victorians. Ithaca: Cornell UP.
1995 – Stoicheff, Peter. The Hall of Mirrors: “Drafts and Fragments” and the End of Ezra Pound’s Cantos. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P.
1997 – Rainey, Lawrence, ed. A Poem Containing History: Textual Studies in The Cantos. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P.
1997 – Shioji, Ursula. Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos and the Noh. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
2004 – Liebregts, Peter. Ezra Pound and Neoplatonism. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh-Dickinson University Press, 2004.
2005 – Malm, Mike. Editing Economic History: Ezra Pound’s The Fifth Decad of Cantos. New York: Peter Lang.
2006 – Makin Peter, ed. Ezra Pound’s Cantos: A Casebook. Oxford: Oxford: Oxford UP.
2006 – Selby, Nick. Poetics of Loss in the Cantos of Ezra Pound: From Modernism to Fascism. Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press.
2007 – Henriksen, Line. Ambition and Anxiety: Ezra Pound’s ‘Cantos’ and Derek Walkott’s ‘Omeros’ as Twentieth-Century Epics. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
2010 – Farahbakhsh, Alireza and Zeinab Heidary Moghaddam. Dominant Themes in Ezra Pound’s 1930s and 1940s Cantos (Cantos XXXI-LXXXIV). Saarbrücken: Lambert Academic Publishing.
2012 – Ten Eyck, David. Ezra Pound’s Adams Cantos (Historicizing Modernism). London: Bloomsbury.
2012 – Hilmy, Hassan. Altar to Zagreus. Dionysus in The Cantos of Ezra Pound. Saarbrücken: Lambert Academic Publishing.
2017 – Kindellan, Michael. The Late Cantos of Ezra Pound. London: Bloomsbury, 2017.
2018 – Parker, Richard, ed. Readings in The Cantos. Vol. I. Clemson: Clemson University Press.
2018 – Howard, Alexander, ed. Astern in the Dinghy: Commentaries on Ezra Pound’s Thrones de los Cantares 96-109. Glossator 10.
2021 – Marsh, Alec. Ezra Pound's Washington Cantos and the Struggle for Light. London: Bloomsbury.
2022 – Parker, Richard, ed. Readings in The Cantos. Vol. 2. Clemson: Clemson University Press.
2022 – Ullyot, Jonathan. Ezra Pound and his Classical Sources: The Cantos and the Primal Matter of Troy. London: Bloomsbury Academic. Chapter extracts.
DISSERTATIONS
1958 – Fang, Achilles. “Materials for the Study of Pound’s Cantos.” 4 vols. Diss., Harvard U.
1959 – Halperen, Max. “A Structural Reading of The Cantos.” Diss., Florida State U. UMI.
1961 – Davenport Guy. “A Reading of I-XXX of the Cantos of Ezra Pound.” Diss., Harvard U.
1963 – Heffernan, T. C. “City of Universals: Siena in The Cantos of Ezra Pound.” Diss., U of Manchester.
1973 – Murray David J. “The Treatment of History, Politics and Economics in The Cantos of Ezra Pound and the Maximus Poems of Charles Olson.” Diss., King’s College, London.
1977 – Freudenheim, R. J. “Ezra Pound: Canto 85.” Diss., U of California, Berkeley, 1977. DAI-A 39/02.
1981 – Crisp, P. G. “Time Past and Present, and Its Transcendence in The Cantos of Ezra Pound.” Diss., U of Reading.
1983 – Sawyer, Richard. “The Great Periplus: A Study of the Structure of Ezra Pound’s Cantos.” Diss., U of Toronto.
1985 – Beebe, Alice Deming. “Canto 91 by Ezra Pound: So Hath Sibile A Boken Isette.” Diss., Columbia U. DAI-A 46/01.
1986 – Baker, Edward Harbage. “‘Timing the Thunder’: Ezra Pound’s Poetic Historiography.” Diss., U of Michigan, 1986. DAI 47.4 (Oct. 1986): 1329A-1330A. Abstract.
1986 – Clark, Hilary Anne. “The Idea of a Fictional Encyclopaedia: ‘Finnegans Wake,’ ‘Paradis,’ ‘The Cantos.’” Diss., U of British Columbia, 1985. DAI 47.4 (Oct. 1986): p1313A. Abstract.
1986 – Clark, Kevin John. “American Catharsis: The Long Evolution and Practice of the Contemporary Long Poem.” Diss., U of California-Davis, 1986. DA XLVII-37. Abstract.
1986 – Coyle, Michael Gordon. “‘The poetry breaks off’: Generic combination in The Cantos of Ezra Pound.” Diss., U of Virginia, 1986. DAI 49 (1986): 253A. Abstract.
1986 – Kelly, Alan Lawrence, Jr. “Confucianism and the Meaning of The Cantos of Ezra Pound.” Diss., Indiana U, 1986. DAI 47.11 (May 1987): 4084A. Abstract.
1986 – Rainey, Lawrence Scott. “The Earliest Manuscripts of the Malatesta Cantos by Ezra Pound.” Diss., U of Chicago, 1986.
1986 – Reid, Richard G. “‘Discontinuous Gods’: Ezra Pound and the Epic of Translation.” Diss., Princeton U, 1986, Robert Fagles and A. Walton Litz. DAI 47.3 (Sept. 1986): 894A. Abstract.
1986 – Wacker, Norman John. “Constructive Traditions: The Cantos of Ezra Pound.” Diss., Washington, 1986. DAI 47.12 (June 1987): 4392A. Abstract.
1987 – Lee, Il-Hwan. “The Drama of Desire: The Cantos of Ezra Pound.” Diss., Seoul National U, Korea.
1987 – Cody, Thomas Robert. “The Cantos of Ezra Pound: The Politics of Modernist Poetry.” Diss., U of California, Irvine, 1987. DAI 48.3 (Sept. 1987): 647A.
1987 – Warner, Michael Lee. “Cantomorphosis: Multilingualism in The Cantos of Ezra Pound.” Diss., U of Tulsa, 1986. DAI 47.6 (Dec. 1986): 2155A. Abstract.
1988 – Bell, Terence Antony. “The Hero Polumetis: A New Interpretation of The Cantos of Ezra Pound.” Diss., U of Oxford, 1988.
1988 – Leland, Blake Thomas. “Heroic Economies: Ezra Pound, James Joyce and the Modernist Epic Between the Wars.” Diss., Cornell U, 1988. DAI 50.3 (Sept. 1989): 685A.
1988 – Olson, Peter David. “Seizing ‘Hagoromo:’ Ezra Pound’s Imaged Drama and ‘The Cantos.’” Diss., U of Michigan, 1988. DAI 49.8 (Feb. 1989): 2211A-2212A. Abstract.
1988 – Thomas, David Lee. “Loss, Mourning and Vatic Dispersal of Self in the Long Poems of Whitman, Eliot, Pound, Berryman and Lowell.” Diss., U of California, Riverside, 1988. DAI 49.10 (Apr. 1989): 3028A.
1988 – Tryphonopoulos, Demetres P. “‘To enter arcanum’: Gnosticism in Ezra Pound’s Cantos.” Diss., U of Western Ontario. DAI 49.5 (Nov. 1988): 1155A. Free online.
1989 – Lynch, Robert Lee, Jr. “Rereading America: The American Historical Epos of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams.” Diss., Indiana U, 1989. DAI 51.4 (Oct. 1990): 1230A. Abstract.
1989 – Phelps, Mary Ella. “Ezra Pound and Music: The Convergence of Music and Poetry in The Pisan Cantos.” Diss., Texas A&M U, 1989. DAI 51.4 (Oct. 1990): 1225A.
1990 – Hilmy, H. “Dionysus in The Cantos of Ezra Pound.” Diss., U of Essex.
1991 – Bennett, Peter. “The Thematic Centrality of ‘America’ in the First Fifty One of The Cantos of Ezra Pound: an Exposition of the Poem’s Unity and Purpose from the Evidence on the Page.” Diss., U of Essex.
1991 – Quamme, Margaret Atkins. “The Interaction of Lyric and Narrative in the Long Modern American Poem.” Diss., Brown U. DAI 51.11 (May 1991): 3746A.
Sousa, Irene Ferreira de. “Pound’s ‘sumbainai’: Coherence and incoherence in ‘The Cantos.’” Diss., Tulane U, 1991. Abstract.
1991 – Wellen, Paul Anthony. “Ezra Pound’s Use of Chinese Characters in Relation to His Ideas on Aesthetics, Politics, and Religion.” Diss., U of Virginia, 1991. DAI 54.5 (Nov. 1993): 1798A. Abstract.
1992 – Kim, Yoon-Sik. “Gorilla Language: Pound’s Pictographing Technique in The Pisan Cantos.” Diss., Oklahoma State U, 1991. DAI 53.5 (Nov. 1992): 1518A. Free online.
1992 – Krishnan, Rajiv C. “Self and Form in the Early Cantos of Ezra Pound.” Diss., U of Cambridge.
1992 – Selby, Nicholas. “Poetics of loss in The Cantos of Ezra Pound.” Diss., U of York, 1992. Abstract in Index to Theses Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland (42:3) 1993, 957.
1993 – Clarvoe, Jennifer S. “Rhythm and Certainty: The Problem of the Modern American Long Poem.” Diss., U of California, Berkeley, 1993. DAI 54.10 (Apr. 1994): 3747A. Abstract.
1993 – Gill, Julian. “What need of many words?: Writing and Self-Representation in Wordsworth’s ‘The Prelude’ and Pound’s ‘Cantos.’” Diss., U of Sussex, 1993. Abstract.
1993 – Shen, Fan A. “Ezra Pound’s Ideogrammic Poetics.” Diss., Marquette U, 1992. DAI 54.5 (Nov. 1993): 1806A. Abstract.
1993 – Tayler, Anne Hamilton. “Viva voce: the Oral and Rhetorical Power of Quotation in The Cantos of Ezra Pound.” Diss., U of British Columbia, 1991. DAI 53.12 (June 1993): 4223A-24A. Free online. Also here.
1997 – Marsden, Stephen. “Barred lights, great flares, new form: A Study of A Draft of XXX Cantos of Ezra Pound.” Diss., U of Manchester.
1998 – Deissner, Kai-Ulrich. “Ezra Pound’s Later Cantos and His Early Work: Modes of Time and the Example.” Diss. U of Cambridge.
1999 – Carroll, Zoe. “Content as Technique: Ezra Pound and the Problem of Encyclopaedic Form.” Diss., U of Oxford.
1999 – Cockram, Patricia A. “Ezra Pound’s Italian Cantos: Collapse and Recall.” Diss., City U of New York, 1999 [“This is a two-part dissertation: an electronic, multi-media CD-ROM edition of Pound’s Italian cantos; and a paper which serves as a textual companion and explores my theoretical approach to this materia”]. AAT 9924801. Abstract.
2001 – Byron, Mark Stephen. “Exilic Modernism and Textual Ontogeny: Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos and Samuel Beckett’s Watt.” Diss., U of Cambridge.
2001 – Richardson, Scott. “Taking the Repeats: Modern American Poetry in Imitation of Eighteenth-Century Musical Forms.” Diss., U of Ottawa, 2001 [ II: the fugue, 124-198 (In search of fugue in the Cantos: Ezra Pound’s musical critics, 172-174; Pound’s forced return to the subject in the Pisan Cantos, 175-184)]. Free online.
2002 – Ten Eyck, David. “The Development and Composition of Ezra Pound’s Adams Cantos.” Diss., U of Oxford.
2003 – Wilson, Stephen. “Reading and Writing History: A Study of Ezra Pound’s American History Cantos.” Diss., U of Dublin, Trinity College.
2004 – Pereppadan, Sophy. “‘Let Him Celebrate Christ in the Grain’: Eucharistic Aesthetics in the Pisan Cantos of Ezra Pound.” Diss. English and Foreign Languages U, Hyderabad.
2005 – Menzies-Pike, Catriona Jane. “The Composition of the Modernist Book: Ulysses, A Draft of XXX Cantos and The Making of Americans.” Diss., U of Sydney. [Chapter Four: A Draft of XXX Cantos (1930)]. Free online.
2007 – Nelson, Thomas John. “‘A’ is for ‘Archive’: A Case Study in the American Long Poem.” Diss., The U of Texas at Austin. [1. Poems Containing History – The Long Poem as Archive 18-54.] Free online.
2009 – Barnes, David. “‘Urbs/passion/politics’: Venice in Selected Works of Ruskin and Pound.” Diss., Queen Mary, U of London. [5. Venice in The Cantos: Tourism & Fascism 164-220]. Free online.
2009 – Lin, Baomei. “Crossing the Divide between East and West, Ancient and Modern: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Chinese Characters in Ezra Pound’s ‘The Cantos.’” Diss., The U of Texas at Dallas. Abstract.
2009 – Welch, Michael Laines. “Mythic Pound: An Examination of the Central Place of Myth and Ritual in the Poetry of Ezra Pound.” Diss., Claremont Graduate U. Abstract.
2015 – Mohandas, C. B. “The Poetry of the Process: a Study of The Cantos of Ezra Pound.” Diss. U of Calicut. Free online.
2015 – Radway, John North. "The Fate of Epic in Twentieth-Century American Poetry." Diss. Harvard U, 2015 [1. How Epic Lost Its Ethos: Pound, Browning, and the Columbiad, 10-40]. Free online.
2016 – Phillis, Jen Hedler. “Lyric Histories: On the Appearance of Time in Twentieth-Century Poetry.” Diss., U of Illinois at Chicago. [We Are All Pound Now: The Cantos and the Shape of the Economy, 16-52]. Free online.
2016 – Seguy, Robin. “Prolegomena to the Automated Analysis of a Bilingual Poetry Corpus, with Particular Reference to an Annotated Edition of The Cantos of Ezra Pound.” Diss., U of Pennsylvania. ProQuest AAI10246520. Abstract.
2016 – Emerson, Kent. “Database Modernism: Literary Information Media.” Diss., U of Tulsa. [on James Joyce’s Ulysses, H.D.’s Palimpsest, and Ezra Pound’s A Draft of XXX Cantos].
2019 – Gerard, Philip. “A Translation including History: Ezra Pound, Paul Celan, and the Rhythms of the Past.” Diss., U of California Berkeley.
2019 – Su, Kent [Su Yi-Kuan]. “Chinese landscapes in Ezra Pound’s Cantos.” Diss., University College London, 2019. Abstract and here.
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
- Adams, Stephen J. "Are the Cantos a Fugue?" University of Toronto Quarterly, XLV.1 (Fall 1975): 67-74.
- Adams, Stephen J. "The Soundscape of the Cantos: Some Ideas of Music in the Poetry of Ezra Pound." Humanities Association Review 28 (Spring 1977): 167-188.
- Adams, Stephen J. "Musical Neofism: Pound's Theory of Harmony in Context." Mosaic XIII.2 (1979-80): 49-69.
- Ambrus, Nicolas Z. "The White Light that is Allness: Ezra Pound's Cantos on Love." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 29.3 (2000): 207-15.
- Ausubel, Jonathan. "Three Functions and some Forgery: (Mis)Uses of Visual Poetics in Pound's Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 28.1 (1999): 63-87.
- Bacigalupo, Massimo. “The Strange Text of Ezra Pound’s Cantos.” English Studies 42.1 (1999): 64-8.
- Bacigalupo, Massimo. “America in Ezra Pound’s Posthumous Cantos.” Journal of Modern Literature 27.1 (2003): 90-104.
- Baumann, W. "The German-Speaking World in the Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 21.3 (1992): 41-61.
- Baumann, W. "Yeats and Ireland in the Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 21.1-2 (1992): 7-27.
- Beasley, Rebecca. "Dada's Place in the Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 30.3 (2001): 39-64.
- Bernstein, Michel André. “Identification and Its Vicissitudes: the Narrative Structure of Ezra Pound’s Cantos.” Yale Review 69.4 (1980): 540-56.
- Bernstein, Michel André. “Image, Word and Sign: The Visual Arts as Evidence in Ezra Pound’s Cantos.” Critical Inquiry 12.2 (1986): 347-64.
- Bizzini, Chantal. "The Utopian City in the Cantos of Ezra Pound." Utopian Studies 15.1 (2004): 30-43.
- Bronnikov Andrei. “Making the Epic New: Notes on the Russian Translation of The Cantos.” Literature of the Two Americas 7 (2019): 452-465 Free online.
- Bruce, Elizabeth. "Empedocles's Golden Age of Aphrodite in Pound's Later Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 21.1-2 (1992): 151-9.
- Cantrell, Carol Helmstetter. “Obscurity, Clarity, and Simplicity in the Cantos of Ezra Pound.” Midwest Quarterly 23.4 (1982): 402-10.
- Capps, Kathleen. "The François Villon-Ezra Pound Connection: From the Testament to the Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 25.1-2 (1996): 205-16.
- Casillo, Robert. "Anti-Semitism, Castration, and Usury in Ezra Pound." Criticism 25 (Summer 1983): 239-265.
- Casillo, Robert. “The Desert and the Swamp: Enlightenment, Orientalism, and the Jews in Ezra Pound.” Modern Language Quarterly 45.3 (1984): 263-86.
- Cayley, John. "The Literal Image: Illustrations in the Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 14.2-3 (1985): 227-51.
- Cayley, John. "'New Mountains’. Some light on the Chinese in Pound’s Cantos." Agenda [Chinese poetry issue] 20.3-4 (1982-83): 122-158.
- Chandran, K. N. "Making Cosmos: Building/Creation in the Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 17.2-3 (1988): 177-89.
- Childs, John Steven. "Larvatus Prodeo: Semiotic Aspects of the Ideogram in Pound's Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 9.2 (1980): 289-307.
- Cookson, William. "The Bilingual Cantos." Agenda 24.2 (1986): 95.
- Dasenbrock, Reed Way. "Paradiso ma non troppo. The Place of the Lyric Dante in the Late Cantos of Ezra Pound." Comparative Literature 45.1 (2005): 45-60.
- David, Donald. "Sicily in the Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 6.1 (1977): 101-7.
- Davie, Donald. "The Cantos: Towards a Pedestrian Reading." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 1.1 (1972): 55-62.
- Dickie, Margaret. “The Cantos: Slow Reading.” ELH 51.4 (1984): 819-35.
- Dickey, R.P. "Introduction to the Esthetic and Philosophy of The Cantos." Sou'wester Fall 1970: 21-35.
- Eisenhauer, Robert G. "'Jeweler's Company': Topaz, Half-Light, and Bounding-Lines in the Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 9.2 (1980): 249-70.
- Elliott, Angela. "'Isis Kuanon': An Ascension Motif in the Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 13.3 (1984): 327-56.
- Elliott, Angela. "The Word Comprehensive: Gnostic Light in the Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 18.3 (1989): 7-57
- Esh, Sylvan. "Pound, and Jakobson: The Metaphorical Principle in the Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 22.1-2 (1993): 129-43.
- Fogelman, Bruce. "Beddoes in the Sea Surge, Or a Glimpse of the Cantos in 1908." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 16.3 (1987): 89-91.
- Fogelman, B. "Pound's 'Cathay': A Structural Model for the Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 16.1-2 (1987): 49-60.
- Freind, Bill. "'all Wandering as the Worst of Sinning': Don Juan and the Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 29.3 (2000): 111-31.
- Gaudemar, Antoine de. "'Les Cantos' d' Ezra Pound: requiem pour un palimpseste". Liberation 12 Mai 1986: 36.
- Georges, Emilie. "Ezra Pound's Representations of Sexual Intercourse and the Female Genitalia in The Cantos." Miranda. Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone / multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal on the English-speaking world 21 (2020). Free online and here and here and here and here.
- Goldblatt, Eli. "Gender Matters in Pound's ‘Cantos’." Journal of Modern Literature 15.1 (1988): 35-53.
- Gross, Harvey. "Pound's Cantos and the Idea of History." Bucknell Review 1968/9: 14-31.
- Guerrero, Paula Barba. “Re/Membering Place: Ideogrammic Memory in Ezra Pound’s The Cantos.” Literature of the Two Americas 7 (2019): 360-376. Free online.
- Güvel, Ayşe. "A Comparative Study of Ezra Pound's Cantos on the domain of symbolism and W. B. Yeats's occultism through A Vision." Technium Social Sciences Journal 20 (June 2021): 935-943. Free online and here.
- Hatcher, Leslie and Hugh Witemeyer. “Lord Palmerston as Factive Hero in The Cantos.” Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 25.1-2 (1996): 225-33.
- Hatcher, Leslie. "'Circe's this Craft': The Active Female Principle in the Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 24.1 (1995): 83-94. Print.
- Hatlen, Burt. "Pound's Cantos and the Epic Mode in American Poetry, 1915-1931." Paideuma: Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry 34.2-3 (2005): 231-70. Print.
- Jin, Songping. "Observation of Natural Scenes: Ta Hsüeh and Pound's Later Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 23.2-3 (1994): 7-44. Print.
- John, Roland. "A Note on the Meaning of The Cantos." Agenda 17.3-4 – 18.1 (1979/80): 257-263.
- Jones, Chris. "One a Bird Bore Off: Anglo-Saxon and the Elegaic in the Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 30.3 (2001): 91-8. Print.
- Kappel, Andrew J. "Napoleon and Talleyrand in the Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 11.1 (1982): 55-78. Print.
- Kappel, A. J. “The Reading and Writing of a Modern Paradiso: Ezra Pound and the Books of Paradise.” Twentieth Century Literature 27.3 (1981): 223-246.
- Kelly, John. "A Dweller by Streams and Woodland: The Influence of Emanuel Swedenborg in the Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 27.1 (1998): 55-78. Print.
- Kenner, Hugh. “Self-Similarity, Fractals, Cantos.” ELH 55.3 (1988): 721-30. Print.
- Kimpel, Ben D., and T. C. Duncan Eaves. “‘Major Form’ in Pound's ‘Cantos’." The Iowa Review 15.2 (1985): 51-66. Read article.
- Kimpel, Ben D., and T. C. Duncan Eaves. "Some Curious ‘Facts’ in Ezra Pound's Cantos." ELH 50.3 (1983): 627-635. Print.
- Kohli, Raj K. "'Epic of the West' Some Observations on American History and the Cantos." Indian Journal of American Studies II.2 (1972): 40-54. Print.
- Lauber, John. "Pound's Cantos: A Fascist Epic." Journal of American Studies 12 1 (1978): 3-21.
- Lewis, E. "Imagist Technique in the Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 28.1 (1999): 113-31. Print.
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Li, Victor P. H. “The Vanity of Length: The Long Poem as Problem in Pound’s Cantos and Williams’ Paterson.”Genre 19.1 (Spring 1986): 3-20.
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Lian, Yang. "'in the Timeless Air': Chinese Language, Pound and the Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 30.3 (2001): 101-5. Print.
- Loh, Aaron. "Decoding the Ideogram: The Chinese Written Character in the Cantos of Ezra Pound." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 30.1-2 (2001): 133-50. Print.
- Marsh, A. "Letting the Black Cat Out of the Bag: A Rejected Instance of 'American-Africanism' in Pound's Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 29.1-2 (2000): 125-42. Print.
- Marsh, A. "Thaddeus Coleman Pound's 'Newspaper Scrapbook' as a Source for the Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 24.2-3 (1995): 163-93. Print.
- McDiarmid, Hugh. “Ezra Pound: the Master Voyager of Our Age.” Agenda 10.4-11.1 (1972-73): 139-145.
- McDowell, Colin. "'as Towards a Bridge Over Worlds': The Way of the Soul in the Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 13.2 (1984): 171-200. Print.
- McGann, Jerome J. "The "Cantos" of Ezra Pound, the Truth in Contradiction." Critical Inquiry 15.1 (1988): 1-25. Print.
- McNaughton, William. "A Note on Main Form in the Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 6 (1977): 147-52. Print.
- Mikriammos, Philippe. "Cantos, Traduction: Les Mésaventures De l'Original." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 13.3 (1984): 445-52. Print.
- Miller, Tyrus. "Pound's Economic Ideal: Silvio Gesell and the Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 19.1-2 (1990): 169-80. Print.
- Moody, David A. "Directio Voluntatis: Pound's Economics in the Economy of the Cantos." Paideuma: Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry 32.1-3 (2003): 187-203. Print.
- Moody, David A. “‘They dug him up out of sepulture': Pound, Erigena and Fiorentino.” Paideuma:A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 25.1-2 (1996): 241-7.
- Murray, David. “A Reply to John Lauber’s ‘Pound’s Cantos: a Fascist Epic.” Journal of American Studies 13.1 (1979): 109-113.
- Myers, Morgan. "Ezra Pound Me Fecit: Memorial Object and Autonomous Poem in the Cantos." Paideuma: Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry 35.3 (2006): 67-92. Print.
- Nadel, Ira B. "The Cantos of Ezra Pound...A Poem Including History: A Checklist of Items on Exhibit at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library 20 October - 22 December 1989." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 21.1-2 (1992): 221-34. Print.
- North, Michael. “Towers and the Visual Map of Pound’s Cantos.” Contemporary Literature 27.1 (1986): 17-31. Print.
- Pearlman, Daniel D. "The Blue-Eyed Eel. Dame Fortune in Pound's Later Cantos." Agenda 9.4-10.1 (1971-1972): 60-71. Print.
- Pearlman, Daniel. “The Inner Metronome: A Genetic Study of Time in Pound.” Agenda 8.3-4 (1970): 51-60.
- Peck, John. "Landscape and Ceremony in the later Cantos." Agenda 9.2-3 (1971): 26-69. Print.
- Péti, Miklós. "Usura Alone Not Understood? A Rhetorical Consideration of 'Usura' in the Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 30.3 (2001): 3-22. Print.
- Pevear, Richard. "Notes on the Cantos of Ezra Pound." The Hudson Review 25 (1973): 51-70. Print.
- Pryor, Sean. "Particularly Dangerous Feats: The Difficult Reader of the Difficult Late Cantos." Paideuma: Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry 36 (2007): 27-45. Print.
- Quinn, Bernetta. "The Moon-Goddess in Pound's Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 5.1 (1976): 61-2. Print.
- Rachewiltz, Mary de. "Translating the Cantos." Michigan Quarterly Review 26.3 (Summer 1987): 524-534. Print.
- Rainey, Lawrence S. "A Poem Including History: The Cantos of Ezra Pound." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 21.1-2 (1992): 199-220. Print.
- Rosenow, C. "'High Civilization': The Role of Noh Drama in Ezra Pound's Cantos." Papers on Language and Literature: A Journal for Scholars and Critics of Language and Literature 48.3 (2012): 227-44. Print.
- Rudolph, Donna C. "Formulas for Paradise in Six Cantos of Ezra Pound." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 20.1-2 (1991): 129-40. Print.
- Sawler, Trevor. "Vis Naturae: The Nature of Nature in Selected Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 28.2-3 (1999): 109-32. Print.
- Sawyer, Richard. "The Fascist Ammassi and the Chinese Granary System in Pound's Cantos." Make It New 6.1-2 (Winter 2021). Free online.
- Scott, Peter Dale. "Anger in Paradise: The Poetic Voicing of Disorder in Pound's Later Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 19.3 (1990): 47-63. Print.
- Scott, Peter Dale. "Pound in 'the Waste Land,' Eliot in the Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 19.3 (1990): 99-114. Print.
- Rosenthal, M.L. "The Structuring of Pound's Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 6 (1977): 3-11. Print.
- Sieburth, Richard. "The Design of The Cantos: an Introduction." Iowa Review 15.2 (1985): 12-33. Print.
- Su, Kent. "Landscapes and Taoism in Ezra Pound's Cantos." Neohelicon 48.1 (June 2021): 179-210. On the Taoist elements in the evocation of Chinese landscapes in Pound's Cantos 4 and 49. Free online and here and here.
- Sutton, Walter. "Coherence in Pound's Cantos and William James's Pluralistic Universe." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 15.1 (1986): 7-21. Print.
- Taylor, Richard. "Editing the Variorum Cantos: Process and Policy." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 31.1-3 (2002): 311-34. Print.
- Tryphonopoulos, Demetres P. "The Cantos as Palingenesis." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 18.1-2 (1989): 7-33. Print.
- Tryphonopoulos, Demetres P. "'With Usura Hath no Man a House of Good Stone': An Interview with Leon Surette." English Studies in Canada 31 (2005): 273-91. Print.
- Witemeyer, Hugh. "Pound and the Cantos: 'Ply Over Ply'." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 8.2 (1979): 229-35. Print.
- Yee, Cordell. “Discourse on Ideogrammic Method: Epistemology and Pound’s Poetics.” American Literature 59.2(1987): 242-56.
ARTICLES IN COLLECTIONS
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Alexander, Michael. “On Rereading The Cantos.” The Merrill Studies in The Cantos. Ed. M. Hénault. Columbus, OH: Ch. Merrill Publishing Company, 1971. 68-74.
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Bacigalupo, Massimo. “‘Safe With My Lynxes’: Pound’s Figure in the Carpet.” Ezra Pound’s Cantos. A Casebook. Ed. P. Makin. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006. 111-120.
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Baumann, Walter. “‘Perennial War’ in The Cantos.” The Merrill Studies in The Cantos. Ed. M. Hénault. Columbus, OH: Ch. Merrill Publishing Company, 1971. 75-84.
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Baumann, Walter. “Ezra Pound and Magic. Old World Tricks in a New World Poem.” Roses From the Steel Dust. Collected Essays on Ezra Pound. Orono: The National Poetry Foundation, 2000. 27-42.
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Baumann, Walter. “The German-Speaking World in The Cantos.” Roses From the Steel Dust. Collected Essays on Ezra Pound. Orono: The National Poetry Foundation, 2000. 83-98.
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Baumann, Walter. “The Odysseus Theme in Ezra Pound’s Cantos.” Roses From the Steel Dust. Collected Essays on Ezra Pound. Orono: The National Poetry Foundation, 2000. 83-98.
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Baumann, Walter. “Yeats and Ireland in The Cantos.” Roses From the Steel Dust. Collected Essays on Ezra Pound. Orono: The National Poetry Foundation, 2000. 191-210.
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Bernstein, Charles. “History and Textuality in Ezra Pound’s Cantos.” Ezra Pound and History. Ed. Marianne Korn. Orono: NPF, 1985. 15-22.
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Blasing, Mutlu Konuk. "Pound's Soundtrack: 'Reading Cantos for What is on the Page.'" Lyric Poetry. The Pain and Pleasure of Words. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2007. 149-77.
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Brown, Dennis. “The Translation of History in the Early Cantos.” Ezra Pound and History. Ed. Marianne Korn. Orono: NPF, 1985. 53-62.
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Bush, Ronald. “The Later Cantos.” The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound. Ed. Ira Nadel. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999. 109-38. Print.
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Dasenbrock, Reed Way. “Why the Commedia Is Not the Model for The Cantos and What Is.” Ezra Pound’s Cantos. A Casebook. Ed. P. Makin. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006. 81-92.
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Dekker, George. “Myth and Metamorphosis: Two Aspects of Myth in The Cantos.” New Approaches to Ezra Pound. Ed. E. Hesse. London: Faber, 1969. 280-302.
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Dekker, George. “Time and Tradition in The Cantos.” The Merrill Studies in The Cantos. Ed. M. Hénault. Columbus, OH: Ch. Merrill Publishing Company, 1971. 90-105.
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Durant, Alan. ‘The Language of History in The Cantos.” Ezra Pound and History. Ed. Marianne Korn. Orono: NPF, 1985. 23-36.
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Eastman, Andrew. “The Epic of Voice: History and Orality in The Cantos.” Ezra Pound and Referentiality. Ed. Hélène Aji. Paris: Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2003. 59-68.
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Fowler, Rowena. “Ezra Pound’s Ragbag: The Cantos as Cento.” Cento-Texts in the Making: Aesthetics and Poetics of Cento-Techniques from Homer to Zong! Ed. Manuel Baumbach. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2022. 21-40.
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Gildersleeve, Britton. “‘Enigma’ at the Heart of Paradise: Buddhism, Kuanon, and the Feminine Ideogram in The Cantos.” Ezra Pound and China. Ed. Zhaoming Qian. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan Press, 2003. 193-212.
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Grogan, Kristin. “Listening to the Late Cantos.” Sounding Modernism: Rhythm and Sonic Mediation in Modern Literature and Film. Edited by Julian Murphet, Helen Groth and Penelope Hone. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2017. 164-178. Chapter summary.
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Halperen, Max. “How to Read a Canto.” The Merrill Studies in The Cantos. Ed. M. Hénault. Columbus, OH: Ch. Merrill Publishing Company, 1971. 7-20.
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Hatlen, Burt. "Pound and/or Benjamin." Ezra Pound and Referentiality. Ed. Hélène Aji. Paris: Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2003. 59-68.
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Juhasz, Suzanne. "Metaphor in The Cantos of Ezra Pound." Metaphor and the Poetry of Williams, Pound, and Stevens. Cranbury: Associated University Presses, 1974. 75-131.
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Kelly, Lionel. “Personal History in The Cantos.” Ezra Pound and History. Ed. Marianne Korn. Orono: NPF, 1985. 119-34.
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Kenner, H. Leucothea’s Bikini: Mimetic Homage The Merrill Studies in The Cantos. Ed. M. Hénault. Columbus, OH: Ch. Merrill Publishing Company, 1971. 21-31
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Kenner, Hugh. “Inventing Confucius.” Ezra Pound’s Cantos. A Casebook. Ed. P. Makin. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006. 165-180.
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Makin, Peter. “History and Money, Fact and Hysteria.” Ezra Pound’s Cantos. A Casebook. Ed. P. Makin. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006. 93-110.
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Makin, Peter. Ideogram, “Right Naming” and the Authoritarian Streak. Ezra Pound and China. Ed. Zhaoming Qian. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan Press, 2003. 120-142.
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Mancuso, Girolamo. “The Ideogrammic Method in The Cantos.” Ezra Pound’s Cantos. A Casebook. Ed. P. Makin. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006. 65-80.
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Moody, David A. “The Cantos of Ezra Pound. ‘To Build Light.’” Platonism and the English Imagination. Ed. Anna Baldwin and Sarah Hutton. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. 308-18. Print.
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Perloff, Marjorie. 1981. “‘No Edges, No Convexities’: Ezra Pound and the Circle of Fragments.” The Poetics of Indeterminacy. Rimbaud to Cage. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1999. 155-199.
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Pestell, Alex. "'INCORPORATE/& in One Body': Ezra Pound's Selected Cantos.” Selected Poems: From Modernism to Now. Eds. Hélène Aji and Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2012. 41-52. Print.
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Rehder, Robert. "The End of the Cantos.” Ezra Pound, Ends and Beginnings: Essays and Poems. Eds. John Gery and William Pratt. New York: AMS, 2011.
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Rehder, Robert. The Cantos: Language of Sensation and Metaphors of Identity. Ezra Pound, Language and Persona. (Quaderni Di Palazzo Serra 15). Eds. Massimo Bacigalupo and William Pratt. Genoa: Università degli Studi di Genova, 2008. 210-220. Print.
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Taylor, Richard Dean. “Reconstructing Ezra Pound’s Cantos: Variorum edition – Manuscript Archive – Reading Text.” Ezra Pound and America. Ed. J. Kaye. London: Macmillan, 1992. 132-148.
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Taylor, Richard. “Towards a Reading Text of The Cantos. Ezra Pound and Poetic Influence. Ed. Helen Dennis. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000. 200-211.
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Taylor, Richard D. “The History and State of the Texts.” A Poem Including History, The Text of The Cantos. Ed. Lawrence Rainey. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 235-265. Revised in The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound. Ed. Ira Nadel. Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 1999. 161-187.
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Taylor, Richard D. “The Text of The Cantos.” The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound. Ed. Ira B. Nadel. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999. 161-187.
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Taylor, Richard. “Towards A Textual Biography of The Cantos.” Modernist Writers and the Market Place. Ed. Warren Chernaik. London: Macmillan, 1996. 223-257.
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Ten Eyck, David. "Evaluating the Status of Ezra Pound's Selected Cantos. Selected Poems: From Modernism to Now. Eds. Hélène Aji and Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2012. 23-40. Print.
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Tryphonopoulos, Demetres. “Pound Reading Dante ‘Reading’ Homer: The Survival of the Palingenetic Tradition in Ezra Pound’s The Cantos.” Dante e Pound. Ed. Maria Luisa Ardizzone. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 1995. 87-100.
BOOK CHAPTERS AND SECTIONS
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Bacigalupo, Massimo. “The Cantos. Introduction.” The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia. Eds. D. Tryphonopoulos and Stephen J. Adams. Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 2005. 24-25.
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Bacigalupo, Massimo. “The Cantos: Posthumous Cantos.” The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia. Eds. D. Tryphonopoulos and Stephen J. Adams. Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 2005. 49-51.
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Baker, Jack. “The Cantos, Ezra Pound (1925-1962).” Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context. Vol. 1 A-D. Linda De Roche, Ed. Santa Barbara, California and Denver, Colorado: ABC-CLIO, 2021. 193-195.
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Bell, Ian F. A., "Ezra Pound and the Materiality of the Fourth Dimension.” Science in Modern Poetry: New Directions. Eds. John Holmes and Bruce Clarke. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2012. 130-148. Print.
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Bunting, Basil. “Pound’s Cantos.” Basil Bunting on Poetry. Ed. Peter Makin. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999. 134-150.
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Cook, Albert. “Rhythm and Person in The Cantos” New Approaches to Ezra Pound. Ed. E. Hesse. London: Faber, 1969. 349-364.
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Comens, Bruce. Apocalypse and After: Modern Strategy and Postmodern Tactics in Pound, Williams, and Zukofsky. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama Press, 1995. [2. Pound's War: The Great War and the Enemy; Image and Millennium; The Cantos: History and Apocalypse; The Cantos: Contradictions of War; Paradise Postponed; Afterwords and Deferral].
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Fang, Achilles. “Introduction: The Approach to the Cantos.” In Materials for the Study of Pound’s Cantos. 4 vols. Diss. Harvard U, 1958. Vol I: 1–33.
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Gelpi, Albert. “Between Kung and Eleusis.” A Coherent Splendor. The American Poetic renaissance, 1910-1950. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990. 169-252.
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Hedler, Phillis Jen. “We Are All Pound Now: The Cantos and the Shape of the Economy.” Poems of the American Empire: The Lyric Form in the Long Twentieth Century. Iowa City IA: U of Iowa P, 2019. 21-52.chapter excerpt.
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Henderson, Archie. “New Appendix: References to The Cantos.” “I Cease Not to Yowl” Reannotated. New Notes on the Pound/Agresti Correspondence. 2nd ed. Houston: 2009. 587-598.
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Hughes, Robert. "Some observations on Music in The Cantos." Pound Ezra. Le Testament. 1923 Facsimile Edition. Eds. Margaret Fisher and Robert Hughes. Emeryville: Second Evening Publishing, 2011. 204-211. Print.
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Kayman Michael A. “‘And…’ Reading The Cantos.” The Modernism of Ezra Pound. The Science of Poetry. London: Macmillan, 1986. 110-137. Print.
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Kenner, Hugh. The Poetry of Ezra Pound. London: Faber, 1951. 185-306.
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Kim, Joo-Hwan. Out of the “Western Box.” Towards a Multicultural Poetics in the Poetry of Ezra Pound and Charles Olson. New York: Peter Lang, 2003. 60-72; 91-120; 161-90.
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Knapp, James, F. [“The Cantos.”] Ezra Pound. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1979. 118-162.
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Jacob Korg, “The Cantos.” Ritual and Experiment in Modern Poetry. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1995. 85-134.
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Liebregts, Peter. “The Cantos and Neoplatonism: General Introduction.” Ezra Pound and Neoplatonism. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2004. 97-115.
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Marsh, Alec. Ezra Pound. London: Reaktion, 2011. 86-98.
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Morrison, Paul. [“The Cantos.”] The Poetics of Fascism. Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and Paul de Man. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996. 16-59.
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Mottram, Eric. “Ezra Pound in His Time.” Ezra Pound and America. Ed. J. Kaye. London: Macmillan, 1992. 93-113.
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Pound, Ezra. [Plan of The Cantos]. Dante e Pound. Ed. Maria Luisa Ardizzone. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 1995. 229-230.
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Preda, Roxana. “Between Cubism and Postmodernism. The Cantos as Collage.” Ezra Pound’s (Post)Modern Poetics and Politics. New York: Peter Lang, 2001. 117-138.
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Preda, Roxana. “The Bank as Figure: an Archaeology of the Historical Discourse in The Cantos.” Ezra Pound’s (Post)Modern Poetics and Politics. New York: Peter Lang, 2001. 249-267.
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Qian, Zhaoming. [“Dao in The Cantos.”] The Modernist Response to Chinese Art. Pound, Moore, Stevens. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003. 79-80.
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Robinson, Peter. “Ezra Pound and Italian Art.” Pound’s Artists. Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts in London, Paris and Italy. London: Tate Gallery Publications, 1985. 121-176.
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Sicari, Stephen. Pound’s Epic Ambition. Dante and the Modern World. New York: SUNY Press, 1991.