Pound, Frost, Moore, and Poetic Precision

Barry Ahearn is Professor Emeritus of English at Tulane University, USA.  He is the author of Zukofsky’s “A”: An Introduction (1983) and William Carlos Williams and Alterity (1994).  He has also edited the correspondence of Cummings, Pound, Williams and Zukofsky.

• Chapter One: Introduction.- Chapter Two: To Be Precise.- Chapter Three: Ezra Pound and Error.- Chapter Four: Robert Frost and “Something”.- Chapter Five: Marianne Moore and “Ac- / cident”.- Chapter Six: Afterword.

“This reading of Moore as a religious poet is not common, and Ahearn is here as elsewhere a persuasive and enlightening guide to these three happy or unhappy lovers of precision.” (Massimo Bacigalupo, Modern Language Review, Vol. 118 (3), July, 2023)