Late Cantos of Ezra Pound

Michael Kindellan is a Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Sheffield, UK

• Series Editors' PrefacePrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsList of FiguresNote on the Text1. “I have always loathed reading": Pound and Philology2. "To copy and amplify": Section: Rock-Drill3. "No, that is not textual": Thrones4. "Or true editions?"BibliographyIndex of (Published) Works by PoundIndex of Names

Michael Kindellan’s excellent new book makes an argument, not about what we can do with Pound’s late poetry, but about what Pound wanted us to do … Kindellan explores the archive specifically in order to show that, for Pound, the author’s intention was paramount, and that the late cantos are written in such a way as to cancel the freedoms of interpretation … Whatever Ezra Pound’s readers do, those who write about his late cantos now need to read Michael Kindellan’s impressive new study.