Ezra Pound (lecture)
Lecture by Professor Langdon Hammer given as part of Open Yale courses, 'engl 310: Modern Poetry'. Available as audio, video and transcript.
About the lecture: The lecture introduces the poetry of Ezra Pound. Tensions in Pound's personality and career are considered, particularly in terms of his relationships with other poets and his fascism and anti-capitalism. The poem "The Seafarer" is examined as a quintessentially Poundian project in its treatment and translation of poetic forms. The first Canto of his epic project, The Cantos, is analyzed as a meditation on the process of expressing and engaging with history and literary tradition.
Recorded for Open Yale Courses in Spring 2007.
Date Published:
7 June 2012
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Langdon Hammer
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Ezra Pound
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Ezra Pound (lecture) by Ezra Pound at https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-310/lecture-9 via https://dev.writersinspire.it.ox.ac.uk/content/ezra-pound-lecture. Published on 07 June 2012. Accessed on 15 May 2026.
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