ROSES FROM THE STEEL DUST.
Collected Essays on Ezra Pound.
Orono: National Poetry Foundation, 2000.
Acknowldgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction 3
Ezra Pound’s Metamorphosis during his London Years: from Late-Romanticism to Modernism 11
Ezra Pound and Magic: Old World Tricks in a New World Poem 27
Pound and Layamon’s Brut 43
Secretary of Nature, J. Heydon 53
The Structure of Canto IV 65
The Odysseus Theme in Ezra Pound’s Cantos 83
‘-not of one bird but of many’: Pound’s Janequin 99
‘But to affirm the gold thread in the pattern’: An examination of Canto 116 113
The German-Speaking World in The Cantos 135
Ezra Pound’s Reception in the German Speaking World 155
Ezra Pound and Heinrich Heine 163
Ezra Pound and Herman Broch: A Comparison 179
Yeats and Ireland in The Cantos 191
‘Sit on a midden and dream of stars’: Ezra Pound and the Belfast-Born poet Joseph Campbell (1879-1944) 211
‘…with such French politeness’: The French and France in The Pisan Cantos
‘…and Elsie/Blackeyed bitch’: Aviation Pioneers in The Cantos 235
Endnotes 247
Index 279