The Pound Era

Hugh Kenner

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9780520024274
• eBook ISBN: 9780520341104
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

"Hugh Kenner's The Pound Era could as well be known as the Kenner era, for there is no critic who has more firmly established his claim to valuable literary property than has Kenner to the first three decades of the 20th century in England. Author of pervious studies of Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis and Pound (to name a few), Kenner bestrides modern literature if not like a colossus then at least a presence of formidable proportions. A new book by him is certainly an event....A demanding, enticing book that glitters at the same time it antagonizes...."The Pound Era presents us with an idiosyncratic but sharply etched skeletal view of our immediate literary heritage."—The New York Times


"Hugh Kenner's The Pound Era could as well be known as the Kenner era, for there is no critic who has more firmly established his claim to valuable literary property than has Kenner to the first three decades of the 20th century in England. Author of perv

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS 1
• Part One TOWARD THE VORTEX
• GHOSTS AND BENEDICTIONS
• SPACE-CRAFT
• RENAISSANCE II
• THE MUSE IN TATTERS
• MOTZ EL SON
• THE INVENTION OF LANGUAGE
• WORDS SET FREE
• KNOT AND VORTEX
• TRANSFORMATIONS
• IMAGISM
• THE INVENTION OF CHINA
• THE PERSISTENT EAST
• VORTEX LEWIS
• THE STONE
• PRIVACIES
• SCATTER
• MAO4, OR PRESUMPTION
• DOUGLAS
• THE SACRED PLACES
• THE CANTOS—I
• O CITY CITY …
• SYNTAX IN RUTHERFORD
• SPECIFICS
• THE CANTOS—2
• THE ANONYMOUS
• INVENTING CONFUCIUS
• THE CAGE
• THE LAST EUROPEAN
• THE JERSEY PAIDEUMA
• THE LAST VORTEX
• ENDINGS
• NOTES
• INDEX