Even since “Lustra,” Mr. Pound has moved
again. This move is to the epic, of which three
cantos appear in the American “Lustra”
(they have already appeared in “Poetry”—Miss
Monroe deserves great honour for her courage in printing
an epic poem in this twentieth century—but
the version in “Lustra” is revised and
is improved by revision). We will leave it as
a test: when anyone has studied Mr. Pound’s
poems in chronological order, and has mastered
“Lustra” and “Cathay,” he is
prepared for the Cantos— but not till then.
If the reader then fails to like them, he has probably
omitted some step in his progress, and had better go
back and retrace the journey.
BOOKS AND PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF
NOTABLE CRITICAL ARTICLES
A LUME SPENTO (100 copies). Antonelli, Venice,
June, 1908.
A QUINZAINE FOR THIS YULE.
First 100 printed by Pollock, London,
December, 1908.
Second 100 published under Elkin Mathews’
imprint, London,
December, 1908.
PERSONAE. Mathews, London, Spring, 1909.
EXULTATIONS. Mathews, London, Autumn, 1909.
THE SPIRIT OF ROMANCE. Dent, London, 1910.
PROVENCA (a selection of poems from “Personae”
and
“Exultations” with new poems).
Small Maynard, Boston, 1910.
CANZONI. Mathews, London, 1911.
THE SONNETS AND BALLATE OF GUIDO CAVALCANTI (translated).
Small Maynard, Boston, 1912.
A cheaper edition of the same, Swift and
Co., London, 1912.
The bulk of this edition destroyed by
fire.
RIPOSTES. Swift, London, 1912.
(Note.—This book contains
the first announcement of
Imagism, in the foreword to the poems
of T. E. Hulme.)
“A FEW DON’TS BY AN IMAGISTE,” in
“Poetry,” for March, 1913.
“CONTEMPORANIA” (poems), in “Poetry,”
April, 1913.
PERSONAE, EXULTATIONS, CANZONI, RIPOSTES, published
in two
volumes. Mathews, London, 1913.
FIRST OF THE NOTES ON JAMES JOYCE, “Egoist,”
January, 1914.
FIRST OF THE ARTICLES CONCERNING GAUDIER-BRZESKA,
“Egoist,”
February, 1914.
“DES IMAGISTES,” poems by several authors
selected by Ezra
Pound, published as a number of “The
Glebe,” in New York.
February, 1914.
Alfred Kreymborg was at this time editor
of “The Glebe.” The
first arrangements for the anthology were
made through the
kind offices of John Cournos during the
winter of 1912-13.
