This volume gathers fifteen essays that offer new interpretations on
Pound’s poetics, as well as new perspectives on his critical reception globally.
It includes authors from nine different countries and covers Pound’s work from
his beginnings as a young poet in Philadelphia in the first decade of the
century through his most productive years as a poet, critic, and translator to
the first critical treatments of his work in the 1940s and 50s, and on to
translations of The Cantos spanning
the last fifty years. Although, in our own era, such terms as “cross-cultural
thinking,” “globalism,” “transnationalism,” and “internationalism” remain fluid
and can often stir controversy in literary studies, especially in discussion of
the impact of modernism, the place of Ezra Pound as a prominent modernist figure
worldwide has remained unquestioned throughout the last century.