Bibliography of English Language Scholarship on Ezra Pound
Assembled and edited by Archie Henderson and Roxana Preda
2023
MONOGRAPHS
- Shloss, Carol. Let the Wind Speak: Mary de Rachewiltz and Ezra Pound. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2023. Preface.
DISSERTATIONS
- Riou, Berengere. "Unspeakable Things: The Poetics of Secrecy in Ezra Pound and H.D." Diss. New York U, 2023 [1. Pound's "Secretum": From "Cult of Amor" to Conspiracy; 3. Self and Secrecy in H.D. and Pound; CODA: "Pound and me" / "My H.D."]. Document Preview.
- Zhang, Yu. "Chinese Spatial Poetics and Global Space from Liang Qichao to Gary Snyder." Diss. U of Otago, 2023. Abstract.
ESSAY COLLECTIONS AND COLLECTIVE VOLUMES
VOLUMES INCLUDING MATERIAL ON EZRA POUND
- Abrahamsson, Carl. Source Magic: The Origin of Art, Science, and Culture. Foreword by Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold. Rochester, Vermont: Park Street P, 2023 [in part, on the similarities in psychology between poet Ezra Pound and magician Austin Osman Spare].
- Bell, Ian F. A. Critic as Scientist: The Modernist Poetics of Ezra Pound. First published 1981. London: Routledge, 2023.
- DuPlessis, Rachel Blau. A Long Essay on the Long Poem: Modern and Contemporary Poetics and Practices. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2023 [esp. 1. Length, "Longing," and the Long Poem, 1-46].
- Waithe, Marcus. The Work of Words: Literature, Craft, and the Labour of Mind in Britain, 1830-1940. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2023 [6. Modernism and the Maker. iii. Rusty Chisels: Pound, Prejudice, and Poetic Apprenticeship].
JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS AND COLLECTIONS
- Abed, Alaa Kareem. "Palilogy and Narrativity into Escapism-Selected Poems of Ezra Pound." Journal Educational Verkenning 4.1 (Apr. 2023): 1-10. Free online and here and here.
- Bădulescu, Dana. "Translation and Transcreation in Ezra Pound's One-Image Poem." Agathos 14.1 [no. 26] (2023): 65-74. Free online.
- Bossick, Karen. "Ezra Pound Lectures to Examine Hailey's Least Favorite Son." Eye on Sun Valley (Ketchum, ID), June 10, 2023. On a three-part lecture series in Hailey, Idaho, featuring talks by Ted Dyer, Robert von Hallberg, and John Gery. Free online.
- Cao, Shunqing, and Lu Zhai. "Ezra Pound, Chinese Culture and the Variation Theory." Neohelicon, Published: 30 May 2023. Abstract, notes, and references.
- Chang, Hongjing, Malini Ganapathy, Mohamed Abdou Moindjie, and Chen Jiao. "'Hard' Translation and Communication Effects and the Influencing Elements of English Translations of Li Bai's Poems in America." English Language and Literature Studies 13.3 (June 2023), p1. Free online and here.
- Chernokova, Yevheniya. "The Essence of an Image in English -American Imagism: Singular Versus Universal." Vìsnik Unìversitetu ìm. A. Nobelâ: Serìâ Fìlologìčnì Nauki [Alfred Nobel U Journal of Philology: Series Philology] 1.25 (2023): 8-19. Free online.
- Dowthwaite, James. "'Fear God and the Stupidity of the Populace': Pound, Eliot, and High Modernism between Populism and Esotericism." Literary Matters 15.2 (Spring 2023). Free online and here.
- Giorgi, Raiza. "Three part lecture on Ezra Pound to start June 13." Idaho Mountain Express, June 12, 2023. On a three-part lecture series in Hailey, Idaho, featuring talks by Ted Dyer, Robert von Hallberg, and John Gery. Free online.
- Grønlie, Espen. "Reactionary Multilingualism: Ezra Pound's 'Addendum for C.'" Journal of Literary Multilingualism 1.1 (May 2023): 55-72. Free online and here and here.
- Hakutani, Yoshinobu. “Ezra Pound, Yone Noguchi, and Imagism.” The Routledge Global Haiku Reader. Eds. James Shea and Grant Caldwell..London and New York: Routledge, 2023. 127-147. Chapter abstract.
- Hasan, A.M. M Mahmudul. "The Modernist Movement in English Poetry: Focusing on T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, and Ezra Pound." International Journal of Academic Multidisciplinary Research (IJAMR) 7.6 (June 2023): 182-187. Free online and here.
- Michaels, Walter Benn. "Hugh Kenner and the Origin of the Work of Art." Nonsite.org, Articles Issue #42, April 11, 2023. Free online.
- Parker, James. "The Prophecy of The Waste Land." The Atlantic 331.1 (Jan./Feb. 2023): 67-70. Free online.
- "Poem of the Day: ‘Portrait d'une Femme.'" Ed. Joseph Bottum. The New York Sun, June 9, 2023. Free online.
- Poupard, Duncan James. "In Defense of Ezra Pound's 'Graphological' Translations.'" The Translator 29.1 (Jan. 2023): 61-75. Abstract and references.
- Qiang, Xiao. "Between Literature and Philosophy: On Translating Confucius into English." Translation and Literature 32.1 (Mar. 2023): 22-41. Abstract.
- Quinn, Justin. "Tagore, Pound, and World English." The Oxford Handbook of W.B. Yeats. Eds. Lauren Arrington and Matthew Campbell. New York: Oxford UP, 2023. 299-C20N31. Abstract.
- Simonetti, Paolo. "History and the American Language in U.S. Modernist Narratives: Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Ernest Hemingway." Studium 119.1 (gen./mar. 2023): 87-123.
- Tonning, Erik. "Ezra Pound versus T. S. Eliot on Christianity, Apocalypse and Myth, 1934-1945." The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism, Myth and Religion. Eds. Suzanne Hobson and Andrew D. Radford. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2023. 19-34. First page.
- Tornatore-Loong, Maria. "Calligraphic Ideograms, Plastic Poems, Spatialism, and Self-Referentiality: The Evolution of Japanese Concrete and Visual Poetry." The International Journal of the Image 14.2 (2023): 23-62. Abstract.
- Uyurkulak, Serhat. "Ezra Pound and A. H. Tanpinar: Two Modes of Authenticity in Modernist World Literature." Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi [Dokuz Eylul U The Journal of Graduate School of Social Sciences] 25.1 (2023): 134-149. Free online.
- Walker, Bruce Edward. "Column: Wringing lilies from acorns." The Morning Sun, May 25, 2023. Free online.
- Wang, Huiping. "Tracing the Translator's Voice: A Corpus-Based Study of Six English Translations of Daxue." Frontiers in Psychology 13 (12 January 2023), Art. 1069697. Free online.
- Yusuf, Sanberk. "The Modernist Elements in the Poetry of Ezra Pound and Orhan Veli Kanik." Proceedings of the ESIDRP International Conference:English Studies at the Interface of Disciplines: Research and Practice (ESIDRP) (April 8-9, 2022, Skopje, R. N. Macedonia). Skopje: Ss Cyril and Methodius U, R.N. Macedonia, 2023. 161-172. Free online.
REVIEWS
- Adams, V. Joshua. "Close, but No Cigar." Rev. of Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics, by Marjorie Perloff. Modern Language Quarterly 84.1 (Mar. 2023): 53-70. Abstract.
- Anon. Rev. of Magnificent Rebel: Nancy Cunard in Jazz Age Paris, by Anne De Courcy. Kirkus Reviews 91.3 (February 1, 2023): 74. Free online.
- Anon. Rev. of Magnificent Rebel: Nancy Cunard in Jazz Age Paris, by Anne de Courcy. Publishers Weekly 270.3 (Jan. 16, 2023). Free online.
- Bacigalupo, Massimo. Rev. of Pound, Frost, Moore, and Poetic Precision: Science in Modernist American Poetry, by Barry Ahearn. Modern Language Review 118.3 (July 2023): 372-373. Free online (excerpt and first page, second page).
- Beattie, Steven. "Fragments shored against ruins: Matthew Hollis charts the convoluted and painful path toward T.S. Eliot's masterpiece in a new 'biography' of The Waste Land." Rev. of The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem, by Matthew Hollis. That Shakespearean Rag, January 7, 2023.
- Ben-Merre, David. Rev. of The Poets of Rapallo: How Mussolini's Italy Shaped British, Irish, and U.S. Writers, by Lauren Arrington. American Literary History 35.2 (Summer 2023): 971-974. Free online and here.
- Cammack, Zan. "Political Pressures and Modernist Musicology." Rev. of Modernism, Music and the Politics of Aesthetics, by Gemma Moss. James Joyce Literary Supplement 36.1 (2023), Art. 1. Free online.
- Cè, Massimo. Rev. of Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources: The Cantos and the Primal Matter of Troy, by Jonathan Ullyot, Translation and Literature 32.2 (July 2023): 249-256. First page.
- Cochrane, Harry. "Matthew Hollis – The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem." Rev. of The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem, by Matthew Hollis. Bookstalling, March 19, 2023. Free online.
- Di Martino, Giovanna. Rev. of Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance: Hellenism As Theatricality, by Olga Taxidou. Modern Drama 66.1 (Mar. 2023): 137-139. Abstract.
- French, Liz. Rev. of Magnificent Rebel: Nancy Cunard in Jazz Age Paris, by Anne De Courcy. Library Journal 148.1 (Jan. 1, 2023): 93. Free online.
- Gillespie, Patrick. "Matthew Hollis & the death of The Waste Land." Rev. of The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem, by Matthew Hollis. PoemShape, February 14, 2023. Free online.
- Gillott, Brendan C. Rev. of Orphic Bend: Music and Innovative Poetics, by Robert L. Zamsky. American Literary History 35.2 (Summer 2023): 983-986. Free online.
- Guilar, Liam. "A wasted 'life' of The Waste Land." Rev. of The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem, by Matthew Hollis. The Brazen Head, March 29, 2023. Free online.
- Helios, Anton. "'The Gift'" by Lewis Hyde - some thoughts." Instantiating Serendipity, June 2, 2023. Free online.
- Houston, Lloyd (Meadhbh). Rev. of The Poets of Rapallo: How Mussolini's Italy Shaped British, Irish, and U.S. Writers, by Lauren Arrington. Estudios Irlandeses 18 (2023): 255-260. Free online.
- Jenkins, Grant Matthew. Rev. of Modernist Poetry and the Limitations of Materialist Theory: The Importance of Constructivist Values, by Charles Altieri. American Literary History 35.1 (Feb. 2023): 592-595. Free online.
- Joiner, Dustin. "Book Reviews: Ezra Pound: Poet: A Portrait of the Man and His Work Vol. I-III by A. David Moody." Rev. of Ezra Pound: Poet: A Portrait of the Man and His Work: The Young Genius 1885-1920, Vol I, by A. David Moody; Ezra Pound: Poet: A Portrait of the Man and His Work: The Epic Years 1921-1939, Vol II, by A. David Moody; and Ezra Pound: Poet: A Portrait of the Man and His Work: The Tragic Years 1939-1972, Vol III, by A. David Moody. Just About History, June 12, 2023. Free online.
- Joiner, Dustin. "Book Reviews: A Stranger in Your Own City / The Life of Ezra Pound." Rev. of two books, including The Life of Ezra Pound, by Noel Stock. Just About History, May 8, 2023. Free online.
- Kane, Louise. Rev. of Ezra Pound and 20th-Century Theories of Language: Faith with the Word, by James Dowthwaite. Modernism/modernity 30.1 (January 2023): 219-221. Excerpt and first page.
- Liebregts, Peter. Rev. of Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources: The Cantos and the Primal Matter of Troy, by Jonathan Ullyot, English Studies 104.4 (May 2023): 671-673. First page. Last page.
- Martin, Meredith. Rev. of Modernism's Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics, by Ben Glaser. Modern Philology 120.3 (Feb. 2023): E129-E132. Free online and here and here and here.
- Masud, Noreen. "When the smoke clears: H. D.'s roman a clef about life with Ezra Pound and Frances Gregg." Rev. of Hermione, by H. D. Times Literary Supplement 6251 (Jan. 20, 2023). Excerpt.
- McKever, Rosalind. Rev. of Sculptors Against the State: Anarchism and the Anglo-European Avant-Garde, by Mark Antliff. caa.reviews, January 25, 2023. Free online.
- McLane, Maureen N. "Trees are complicated." Rev. of HERmione, by H.D., and Winged Words: The Life and Work of the Poet H. D., by Donna Krolik Hollenberg. London Review of Books 45.3 (2 February 2023). Free online.
- McRae, Calista. Rev. of Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry, by Rachel Trousdale. HUMOR, Published online June 22, 2023. Free online.
- Mlinko, Ange. "Review: (1) Ange Mlinko on an Eliot Centenary." Rev. of Eliot after The Waste Land, by Robert Crawford; The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem, by Matthew Hollis; The Waste Land: A Facsimile & Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound; and What the Thunder Said: How The Waste Land Made Poetry Modern, by Jed Rasula. Book Post, Jan. 10, 2023. Excerpt.
- Odom, Nicholas. Rev. of Ezra Pound's Washington Cantos and the Struggle for Light, by Alec Marsh. European Journal of American Studies, 27 February 2023. Free online and here and here.
- Pritchard, William H. "Eliot's Pitiless Brilliance." Rev. of The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem, by Matthew Hollis. Commonweal 150.3 (March 2023). Free online.
- Quin, John. "The Waste Land by Matthew Hollis review - a walk through true despair." Rev. of The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem, by Matthew Hollis. The National, January 7, 2023. Excerpt and here.
- Rosenow, Ce. Rev. of Ezra Pound's Japan, by Andrew Houwen. Japanese Studies 43.1 (Jan. 2023): 117-118.
- Round, Siân. Rev. of Modernist Authorship and Transatlantic Periodical Culture, by Amanda Sigler. The Review of English Studies 74.314 (Apr. 2023): 374-376. Extract.
- Rubery, Matthew. Rev. of Sound and Literature, ed. Anna Snaith. Media History 29.1 (Jan. 2023): 145-148. First page.
- Seaman, Donna. Rev. of Magnificent Rebel: Nancy Cunard in Jazz Age Paris, by Anne de Courcy. Booklist 119.15 (April 1, 2023): 14-15.
- Short, Edward. "The Waste Land Remains Contemporary." Rev. of The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem, by Matthew Hollis. City Journal, January 13, 2023. Free online.
- Stallings, A. E. "Beauty Born of Ashes." Rev. of The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem, by Matthew Hollis. American Scholar 92.1 (Winter 2023). Free online.
- Zamsky, Robert. Rev. of Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry, by Rachel Trousdale. American Literary History 35.2 (Summer 2023): 979-982. Free online.
DIGITAL RESOURCES
- Davies, Daniel. "The Economics of Pound's Canto 45." D-squared Digest, February 28, 2003. Free online.
- Fader, Ira. "Ezra Unbound — Trying the Poetry." The wow of poetry, January 27, 2023. Free online and here.
- Fader, Ira. "Trying Ezra Pound." The wow of poetry, January 1, 2023. Free online and here.
- Ford, Jonathan, and Neil Collins. “The Nobel Prize in Economics for Poets.” A Long Time In Finance, 31 Mar. 2023. Neil and Jonathan talk to John Ramsden, author of The Poets' Guide to Economics. Podcast.
- Gathers, Mike. Episode 19: Eric Wagner on Ezra Pound. Hilaritas Press Podcast, Mar 23, 2023. In this episode, Mike Gathers chats with Eric Wagner about poet and critic Ezra Pound. Podcast and here and here.
- Gillespie, Patrick. "Penitence." PoemShape, February 28, 2023. Free online.
- Gillespie, Stuart. "Creative Translation and Classical Reception: The English Pervigilium Veneris." Translation and Literature, forthcoming. Free online.
- Hudson, Frank. “Love and a Question.” Frank Hudson, March 25, 2023. Includes a reproduction in facsimile of a map drawn by Pound to show Frost how to get to Yeats's place in London. Free online.
- Kotin, Joshua. "Hugh Kenner's The Pound Era: FAQ." Nonsite.org, April 11, 2023. Free online.
- Leow, H.M.A. "Lost in Translation: Ezra Pound's Imagism and the Angel Island Poets." JSTOR Daily, March 21, 2023. Free online.
- Lewis, Stephen. "Ezra, Scott [Adams] and artists versus art." record-eagle.com, Mar. 26, 2023. Free online.
- McDaniel, Jay. "In a Station of the Metro: Ezra Pound (1885-1972) and Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)." Open Horizons, Feb. 2023. Free online.
- Murphy, Justin. "Ezra Pound and the Curse of Genius." Other Life, Apr. 19, 2023. Free online.
- Murphy, Justin. "Ezra Pound: The Curse of Genius." Other Life, 7 June 2023. Podcast and here and here.
- Sears, Ben. "POETS Day! Li Bai, Ernest Fenollosa, and Ezra Pound." Ordinary Times, April 21, 2023. Free online.
- Sharma, Onkar. "From Bashō to Pound: The Global Appeal of Haiku Poetry." Literary Yard, April 18, 2023. Free online.
- Smith, Matthew Buckley. "Ep 111: The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Manifesto." Sleerickets, 2 June 2023. Includes a reading of "The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter." Podcast.
- Svarz, Steph. "Get Lit Episode 197: Ezra Pound." Get Lit, January 11, 2023. Podcast and here and here and here and here.