Article Index

 

 

THE PISAN CANTOS

 

 

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Richard St. Victor has left us one very beautiful passage on the splendours of paradise.

They are ineffable and innumerable and no man having beheld them can fittingly narrate them or even remember them exactly. Nevertheless by naming over all the  beautiful things we know, we may draw upon the mind some vestige of heavenly splendour. 

Ezra Pound. Spirit of Romance 92.

 


 

 

CALENDAR OF COMPOSITION

 

 

List of Abbreviations

L/DP 

Ezra and Dorothy Pound: Letters in Captivity, 1945-1946. Ed. Omar Pound and Robert Sproo. Oxford UP, 1999. 

L/JL

Ezra Pound and James Laughlin: Selected Letters. Ed. David M. Gordon. Norton, 1994. 

 

L/DP 51–77

EP to Reynolds Packard 

            Stalin has the best mind in Russia. Man I most want to talk to is Kumrad Koba[2]

 

EP to Office of the Counter Intelligence Corps (7 May 1945) 

            […] After the Republican Fascist Government was formed in Northern Italy in the Autumn of 1943, I contacted PELLEGRINI[3] who was Minister of Finance, and presented to him my stamp script plan for financing the new Government. 

 

EP to Office of the Counter Intelligence Corps (8 May 1945) 

            […] John Adams aptly called this “downright iniquity,[4] robbing the public for private individual’s gain […]

            […] OUTLINE OF ECONOMIC BASES of historic process/ […]
            […] 4. The next essential datum is the statement in Lenin’s “Imperialism.”[5]

 

EP To DP (20 September 1945) 

L/DP 89 

[…] Nothing said about any other people being authorized to write, so you better make a start collecting whatever news you can get, re readiness to publish “Confucius” “Zone,”[6] reprints etc, & whatever

 

EP to DP (2 October 1945) 

L/DP 101 

[…] I sent you one extract from new CANTI. Here are two more. I have done a Decad 74/83 (about 80 pages this typescript), which don’t seem any worse than the first 70 [cantos]. Heaven knows whether they make sense in bits. Am sending carbon of the Leacok bit, as don’t know what typewriter is left up hill, if any. Will send the carbon of the bit begin[n]ing “teapot from another hotel”[7] in my next, so you can pass on that extract also. 

 

EP to DP (4 October 1945) 

L/DP 105

[…] Whale’s brother Chris Morley has reedited Bartlett’s familiar quotations, I may have said that/ edition of 1943 chance to check up on mortality. Old Rhys[8] still alive in ’43 […]  

Also ask him [T.S. Eliot] re cantos 71 OR 72 OR 74 to 83. Whether the N.Y. Faber will squabble with Laughlin re/ Cantos. Etc. etc. etc. 

 

EP to DP (8 October 1945) 

L/DP 117 

[…] Mystery of Nelly explained/ did pore ole Bunk know she had died? Swabey heard from via Olga, so only Basil[9] to hear from and what ole Wyndham has been at in the U.S.A.

 

EP to DP (4 November 1945) 

L/DP 117

Herewith another batch of Canto ms/ sent via the Base Censor as per recent decision.[10]

 

EP to JL (17 April 1947)

L/JL 160

[…] IF the “Odyssey” you sd / was being sent had arrived I cd / have supplied the Greek—only dia hyphorbe. & the Elpenor dustenn kai essomenosi[11] […]

 

EP to Creekmore (n.d.)[12]

L/JL 161

. . . ROCKY MT p. 180

after—men rose out of Xthonos : 

Agada, Ganna, silla 

            mt

and Mt Taishan[13] etc . . . […] 

 

EP to JL (19 May 1947) 

L/JL 166

Call um Cantos 74-84 or wotever the numbers are & say nothing about any lacuna . . . They can be referred to on jacket (or wherever else you like) as Pisan cantos even in sub title if you insist […]

 

EP to JL (n.d.)[14]

L/JL 197

LOOK at TATE or pity the pore blackman / 40 years time lag on Frobenius[15] /

Lute of Gassir[16] […]

 

[1] “EP refers to stamp scrip in Cantos 41, 74, and 78” (L/SN 337).

[2] “‘Koba,’ meaning ‘the bear’ or ‘the indomitable,’ was a boyhood nickname of Joseph Stalin … EP thought that if he was to meet with Stalin, he could persuade him of the value of Social Credit and stamp scrip, as he indicates in Canto 74” (L/DP 56): see lines 43-46.

[3] “Professor Giampietro Domenico Pellegrini … minister of finance for the Salò Republic. EP, who met with him once to discuss economic matters, refers to his knowledge of government finances in Cantos 74 and 78” (L/DP 66). 

[4] “This remark by John Adams, made in a letter to Benjamin Rush of 28 August 1811, is cited by EP in Cantos 71, 74, and 88” (L/DP 68). 

[5] “This statement appears in chapter 4 (“The Export of Capital”) of Lenin’s Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism … EP repeats it in Canto 74” (L/DP 70): see lines 164-65.

[6] Omar Pound and Robert Sproo gloss EP’s mention of “Confucius” and “Zone” as corresponding in tandem to EP’s prospective “two-part curriculum for the postwar period” – referenced in lines 92-93 in Canto 74 (L/DP 88).

[7] “EP enclosed two extracts later to be published as part of The Pisan Cantos (1948). What he refers to here as “the bit begin[n]ing ‘teapot from another hotel’” consisted of five typed pages running from “with a teapot from another hotel” in Canto 74 (line 803) to the end of that canto” (L/DP 100).  

[8] “Ernest Rhys … is recalled in Canto 74” (L/DP 106): see line 712. 

[9] “Basil Bunting … is mentioned several times in The Pisan Cantos” (L/DP 116): see lines 241-242 in Canto 74. 

[10] “EP enclosed twenty-nine typed pages from Canto 74, 76, and 77. The portion from Canto 74 ran from ‘The suave eyes, quiet, not scornful’ (line 12) to ‘Yaou chose Shun to longevity’ (line 586), and from ‘The Muses are daughters of memory’ (line 718) to ‘in 1912 explaining its mysteries to the piccolo’ (line 802)” (L/DP 176). 

[11] See “εσσομένοισι” in canto 74 line 724 (L/JL 160). 

[12] L/JL places this letter in May 1947 (L/JL 161). 

[13] See “Taishan” in canto 74 lines 89, 140, 246. 

[14] L/JL places this letter in Nov – Dec 1949 (L/JL 197). 

[15] See “Frobenius” in canto 74 line 69.  

[16] See “Gassir” in canto 74 lines 93, 198, 199 (L/JL 198). 

 


 

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

 

BOOKS AND DISSERTATIONS

  1. Bacigalupo, Massimo. Forméd Trace. The Later Poetry of Ezra Pound. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980.
  2. Contino, Vittorugo. Ezra Pound in Italy,  from the Pisan Cantos. Spots and Dots. Venezia: Ivancich, 1970.
  3. 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.
  4. Farahbakhsh, Alireza and Zeinab Heidary Moghaddam. Dominant Themes in Ezra Pound’s 1930s and 1940s Cantos (Cantos XXXI-LXXXIV). Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010.
  5. MacLeish, Archibald. Poetry and Opinion: The Pisan Cantos of Ezra Pound. A Dialog on the Role of Poetry. Evanston: University of Illinois Press, 1950. 
  6. Makkouk, Katrina.  Invoking the Spirits: The Occult Influences In Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos. Vimmerby, Sweden: Trapart Books, 2024.
  7. Pound, Ezra. The Pisan Cantos. Annotated and with an introduction by Richard Sieburth. New York: New Directions, 2003.
  8. Sawler, Trevor Craig. “Hypertexting High Modernism: Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos as Hypertext.” Diss. U of New Brunswick, 2012.
  9. Shioji, Ursula. Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos and the Noh. Mainz: Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik. Bd. 39, 1997.
  10. Trevathan, Andy K. “At Home In Exile: Ezra Pound and the Poetics of Banishment.” Diss. U of Arkansas, 2015 [on Canto 74]. Free online.
  11. Wilhelm, James J. The Later Cantos of Ezra Pound. New York: Walker, 1977.
  12. Woodward, Anthony. Ezra Pound and the Pisan Cantos. Lawbook Co of Australasia, 1980.

 

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

  1. Ackerman, Ondrea E. “The Periplum of the Pisan Cantos.” Paideuma: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 38 (2011): 89-118.
  2. Bacigalupo, M. “Pound’s Pisan Cantos in Process.” Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 27.2-3 (1998): 93-106.
  3. Bacigalupo, M. “The Myth of the Revised Opening of the Pisan Cantos.” Notes & Queries 54.2 (2007): 169-71.
  4. Bishop, P. E. “‘And Will the World Take Up Its Course Again?’: Paranoia and Experience in the Pisan Cantos.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 31.4 (1989): 536-53. (LXXIV)
  5. Brewer, Jonathan. “Practice, ‘Taught and the Not Taught,’ in the Pisan Cantos." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 23.2-3 (1994): 141-56.
  6. Bush Ronald and David Ten Eyck. “A Critical Edition of Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos: Problems and Solutions.” Textual Cultures. Texts, Contexts, Interpretation. 8.2 (2013): 121-140.
  7. Bush, Ronald. “Art Versus the Descent of the Iconoclasts: Cultural Memory in Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos.” Modernism/Modernity 14.1 (2007): 71-95. 
  8. Bush Ronald. “In the Antechamber of The Pisan Cantos.” Pound Biennial I (2025), 7-22.
  9. Bush, Ronald. “La Filosofica Famiglia: Cavalcanti, Avicenna, and the ‘Form’ of Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos.” Textual Practice 24.4 (2010): 669-705.
  10. Bush, Ronald. “Modernism, Fascism, and the Composition of Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos.” Modernism/Modernity 2.3 (1995): 69-87.
  11. Bush, Ronald. “Pound, Emerson, and Thoreau: The Pisan Cantos and the Politics of American Pastoral.” Paideuma: Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry 34.2-3 (2005): 271-92.
  12. Bush, Ronald. “Towards Pisa: Ezra Pound’s Roman ‘Emperors’.” Rivista di Letterature d’America XXIII.98-99 (2003) [2005]: 135-59.
  13. Bush, Ronald. “The Expatriate in Extremis: Caterina Sforza, Fascism, and Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos.” Rivista di Letterature d'America XXV.108-9 (2005) [2007]: 27-43.
  14. Bush, Ronald. “Poetic Metamorphosis: Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos and Prison Poetry.” Rivista di Letterature d'America XXIX.126-7 (2009) [2010]: 37-60.
  15. Bush, Ronald. “Between Religion and Science: Ezra Pound, Scotus Erigena and the Beginnings of a Twentieth-Century Paradise.” Rivista di Letterature d'America. XXXII.141/42 (2012): 95-124.
  16. Bush, Ronald. “Science, Epistemology, and Literature in Ezra Pound’s Objectivist Poetics (With a Glance at The New Physics, Louis Zukofsky, Aristotle, Neural Network Theory, and Sir Philip Sidney).” Literary Imagination 4.2 (2002): 191-210. 
  17. Cao Yuqian. “Pound’s Reference to Classical Chinese Culture——Taking ‘The Pisan Cantos’ as an Example.” Frontiers in Art Research 5.14 (Oct. 2023): 115-120. Free online and here and here.
  18. Dennis, Helen M. “The Elusinian Mysteries as an Organising Principle in the Pisan Cantos.” Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 10.2 (1981): 273-82.
  19. Farahbakhsh, Alireza. “Paradise in the Inferno of Italian Rubble: Pessimism and Optimism in Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos.” AUMLA: Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association 115 (2011): 51-67.
  20. George, Anita. “The Pisan Mysteries: Sex, Death and Rebirth in the Pisan Cantos.” Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 25.1-2 (1996): 139-60.
  21. Gündar, Zehra. "The Resurfacing of the Semiotic Self in the Displaced Subject: Ezra Pound's Pisan Cantos." International Research In Philological Sciences I. Ed. Zehra Gündar. İstanbul: Eğitim Yayınevi, 2022. 119-145.
  22. Haas, Andrew. “Continuities of Racial Fascism: Louis Till and Black Marxism in the Pisan Cantos.” Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures 5.1 (June 2021): 80-93. Free online and here and here. 

     

  23. Haynes, Kenneth. “Ezra Pound’s Annotations to Translations of The Pisan Cantos in the 1950s.” Pound Biennial I (2025), 23-44.

  24. Hutchins, Patricia. “Ezra Pound's Pisa.” The Southern Review (New Series) 2.1 (January 1966): 77-93.
  25. Kimpel, Ben D., and T. C. Duncan Eaves. “‘Major Form’ in Pound’s ‘Cantos’.” The Iowa Review 15.2 (1985): (LXXIV 56-58).
  26. King, Michael. “Ezra Pound at Pisa: An Interview with John L. Steele.” Texas Quarterly 21 (1978/4): 48-61.
  27. Larkin, Greg. “From Noman to Everyman: Chinese Characters in the Pisan Cantos.” Tamkang Review (Taipei) 11.3 (Spring 1981): 307-315.
  28. Litz, Walton. “‘Remember that I Have Remembered”: Traces of the Past in The Pisan Cantos.” Yale Review 73.3 (1986): 357-67.
  29. Lowe, James. “Pound’s Rendering of Abstraction in the Pisan Cantos.” Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 18.3 (1989): 137-46.
  30. MacAfee, Norman. “Pound, Till, The Cantos and Intolerance.” Journal of Poetics Research (May 2018). Free online.
  31. McNaughton, William. “New Light on the Pisan Cantos and Rock-Drill: Milton Friedman and Herman Kahn.” Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 16.3 (1987): 23-51.
  32. Moody, A. D “The Pisan Cantos: Making Cosmos in the Wreckage of Europe.” Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 11.1 (1982): 135-46.
  33. Pagnattaro, Marisa Anne. “The ‘Unwobbling Pivot’: Uncertainty and Process in the Pisan Cantos.” Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 24.1 (1995): 25-38.
  34. Perloff, M. “Pound/Stevens: Whose Era?” New Literary History 13.3 (1982): 485-514.
  35. Rizzardi, Alfredo. “The Mask of Experience. A Chapter upon Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos.” Studi Urbinati di Storia, Filosofia e Letteratura 35 (1960): 135-59.
  36. Schuldiner, Michael. “Pound’s Progress: The Pisan Cantos.” Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 4.1 (1975): 71-81.
  37. Tao, N. “‘the Law of Discourse’: Confucian Texts and Ideograms in the Pisan Cantos.” Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 30.1-2 (2001): 21-68.
  38. Wacker, Norman. “The Subject Repositioned/The Subject Repossessed: Authority and the Ethos of Performance in the Pisan Cantos.” Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 21.1-2 (1992): 81-100.

 

ARTICLES IN COLLECTIONS

  1. Bacigalupo, Massimo. “The Green World.” In Massimo Bacigalupo. Ezra Pound, Italy and The Cantos. Clemson: Clemson UP, 2020. 41-51.
  2. Bacigalupo, Massimo. “The Pisan Cantos in Progress.” In Massimo Bacigalupo. Ezra Pound, Italy and The Cantos. Clemson: Clemson UP, 2020. 197-210.
  3. Baumann, Walter. “‘… and with such French Politeness’: The French and France in The Pisan Cantos.” Roses From the Steel Dust. Collected Essays on Ezra Pound. Orono: The National Poetry Foundation, 2000. 223-234.
  4. Bush, Ronald. “‘Quiet, not scornful’?: the Composition of The Pisan Cantos.” A Poem Containing History: Textual Studies in The Cantos. Ed. Larence Rainey. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 169-212.
  5. Bush, Ronald. “Excavating the Ideological Faultlines of Modernism: Editing Ezra Pound’s Cantos.” Representing Modernist Texts: Editing as Interpretation. Ed. George Bornstein. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1991. 67-98.
  6. Bush, Ron. “Confucius Erased. The Missing Ideograms in The Pisan Cantos.” Ezra Pound and China. Ed. Zhaoming Qian. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan Press, 2003. 163-192.
  7. Bush, Ron. “Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos. The Promise and the Limits of the Archive.” The New Ezra Pound Studies. Ed. Mark Byron. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2019. 40-56.
  8. Bush, Ronald. “‘Young Willows’ in the Pisan Cantos: ‘Light as the Branch of Kuanon.’” Modernism and the Orient. Ed. Zhaoming Qian. New Orleans: UNO Press, 2012. 185-213.
  9. Bush, Ronald. “Late Cantos LXXII-CXVII.” The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound. Ed. Ira Nadel. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999. 109-138.
  10. Bush, Ronald. “Pisa.” Ezra Pound in Context. Ed. Ira Nadel. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 261-73.
  11. Bush, Ronald. “Ezra Pound’s Fascist ‘Europa’: Toward the Pisan Cantos.” Europa! Europa? The Avant-Garde, Modernism and the Fate of a Continent. Eds. Sascha Bru et al. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2009. 210-28.
  12. Bush, Ronald. “The Pisan Cantos.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. Ed. Jay Parini. Vol. III. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 415-18.
  13. Bush, Ronald. “The Pisan Cantos.” The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia. Eds. Stephen J. Adams and Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos. New York: Greenwood Press, 2005. 41-43.
  14. Byron, Mark. “‘This thing that has a code + not a core’: The texts of Pound’s Pisan Cantos.” Ezra Pound and Referentiality. Ed. Hélène Aji. Paris: Presses de l'université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2003. 225-38. 
  15. Cooper, John Xiros. “Music as Symbol and Structure in Pound’s Pisan Cantos and Eliot’s Four Quartets.” In Ezra Pound and Europe. Eds. Richard Taylor and Claus Melchior. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1993.
  16. 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.
  17. Faherty, Michael. “Pound’s Lute: The West African Voice of the Gesere in The Pisan Cantos.” Ezra Pound, Language and Persona. (Quaderni Di Palazzo Serra 15). Eds. Massimo Bacigalupo and William Pratt. Genoa: Università degli Studi di Genova, 2008. 221-233.
  18. Ferreccio, Giuliana. “Ritual and Performance in The Pisan Cantos and H.D.’s Trilogy.” Cross-Cultural Ezra Pound. Eds. John Gery, Walter Baumann, and David McKnight. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2021. 173–86.
  19. Gery, John. “‘A Certain Concordance of Size’: Pound’s Venice in the Pisan Cantos. Ezra Pound, Language and Persona. (Quaderni Di Palazzo Serra 15). Eds. Massimo Bacigalupo and William Pratt. Genoa: Università degli Studi di Genova, 2008. 278-299.
  20. Kiely, Kevin. “The Poet Unmasked in The Pisan Cantos.” Ezra Pound, Language and Persona. (Quaderni Di Palazzo Serra 15). Eds. Massimo Bacigalupo and William Pratt. Genoa: Università degli Studi di Genova, 2008. 347-356.
  21. Kraus, James. “Ezra Pound’s Catholic Prayer Book: Pro Patria et Deo.” Ezra Pound and Referentiality. Ed. Hélène Aji. Paris: Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2003. 239-48.
  22. Madge, Charles. “The Ellipse in the Pisan Cantos.” Ezra Pound: A Collection of Essays to be Presented to Ezra Pound on His 65th Birthday. Ed. Peter Russell. London and New York: Neville, 1950. 119-133.
  23. Moody, David A. “The Pisan Cantos of Ezra Pound.” A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry in English. Ed. Neil Roberts. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001. 469-80.
  24. Rinaldi, Andrea. “Caged verses: some new notes on the politics of The Pisan Cantos.” Vegueta. Anuario de la Facultad de Geografía e Historia 19 (2019): 381-401. Free online and here and here and here and here.
  25. Welch, Milton L. “‘Till Was Hung Yesterday’: Louis Till as Lynching Topos in the Pisan Cantos.” Ezra Pound and Education. Eds. Steven Yao and Michael Coyle. Orono: The National Poetry Foundation, 2012. 163-182.

 

BOOK CHAPTERS AND SECTIONS

  1. Alexander, Michael. “The Pisan Cantos.” The Poetic Achievement of Ezra Pound. London: Faber, 1979. 192-205.
  2. Carpenter, Humphrey. A Serious Character. The Life of Ezra Pound. New York: Delta, 1988. [Sections: 670-680; 687-689; 787-792; 798-799; 813-815.]
  3. Clinton, Alan Ramon. Mechanical Occult: Automatism, Modernism, and the Specter of Politics. Peter Lang, 2004 [4. Two Cages: Second Thoughts on Pisa, 113-138].
  4. Davie, Donald. Ezra Pound. The Poet as Sculptor. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1964. 168-81.
  5. Dennis, Helen. Five Structural Principles in The Pisan Cantos. In A New Approach to the Poetry of Ezra Pound Through the Medieval Provençal Aspect. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Pres, 1996. 375-447. 
  6. Fang, Achilles. “Materials for the Study of Pound’s Cantos.” 4 vols. Diss. Harvard U, 1958. Vol II: 1-27.
  7. Flory, Wendy. Ezra Pound and The Cantos: A Record of Struggle. New Haven: Yale UP, 1980. [Section: 178-231.]
  8. Hatlen, Burton. “Pound’s Pisan Cantos and the Origins of Projective Verse.” Ezra Pound and Poetic Influence. Ed. Helen Dennis. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000. 130-154.
  9. Kenner, Hugh. 1972. The Pound Era. London: Faber, 1975. [Section: 474-495.]
  10. Lan, Feng. Ezra Pound and Confucianism. Remaking Humanism in the Face of Modernity. Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 2005.
  11. Liebregts, Peter. “The Pisan Cantos. (LXXIV-LXXXIV).” Ezra Pound and Neoplatonism. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2004. 249-290. 
  12. Murphet, Julian. Prison Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Literary Guide. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2023 [4. Uncle Ez Do the Polis in Different Voices: The Pisan Cantos as Prison Writing, 61-75, chapter abstract and chapter first page].
  13. Nicholls, Peter. Ezra Pound: Politics, Economics and Writing. A Study of The Cantos. London: Macmillan, 1984. 161-181.
  14. Rabaté, J. M. Language, Sexuality and Ideology in Ezra Pound’s Cantos. London: Macmillan, 1986. 141-182.
  15. Read, Forrest. ’76: One World and the Cantos of Ezra Pound. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981. 308-46.
  16. Selby, Nick. “Memory, Forgetting and American Poetics in Ezra Pound's The Pisan Cantos.'” Memory, History and Critique. Cambridge: MIT Press. 120-140. CD ROM.
  17. Selby, Nick. “‘To Dream the Republic.’ The Pisan Cantos and the Ideal City.”  Poetics of Loss in The Cantos of Ezra Pound. From Modernism to Fascism. Lewiston: Edwin Meller Press, 2006. 187-222. 
  18. Stock, Noel. “The Pisan Cantos 1948.” Reading the Cantos. A Study of Meaning in Ezra Pound. New York: Pantheon Books, 1966. 72-90.
  19. Surette, L. “Pisa.” A Light from Eleusis. A Study of Ezra Pound’s Cantos. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1979. 173-223. 
  20. Ullyot, Jonathan. "Pisan Wreck." Ezra Pound and his Classical Sources: The Cantos and the Primal Matter of Troy. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 203-240. Chapter extracts. 
  21. Wellman, Donald. “How E. P. Dispersed Molecularly Throughout the Pisan Cantos.” in Expressivity in Modern Poetry. Vancouver: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2019. 49-66.
  22. Wilhelm, J. J. Ezra Pound The Tragic Years. 1925-1972. University Park: The Pennsylvania State UP, 1994. 223-48.

 

DIGITAL RESOURCES

  1. Nelson Paul E. and Andrew Schelling. “Spring 2024 Week 4.” [introductory commentary on the Pisan Cantos, starting at §1.26.00]. Youtube, 25 March 2024. Youtube.
  2. Patton, Christopher. “Navigating the Pisan Cantos (I).” The Art of Compost, April 26, 2018. Free online.
  3. Patton, Christopher. “Navigating the Pisan Cantos (II).” The Art of Compost, May 4, 2018. Free online.

 

Cantos in periodicals

The Italian Cantos LXXII-LXXIII

marinetti1

Pisan Cantos LXXIV-LXXXIV

Rock Drill LXXXV-XCV

rock drill

A Draft of XXX Cantos

ship4 for c1

Eleven New Cantos

rsz guido cavalcanti

 

The Fifth Decad

rsz toscana siena3 tango7174

Cantos LII-LXXI

confucius adams 2