Bibliography of English Language Scholarship on Ezra Pound 

Assembled and edited by Archie Henderson and Roxana Preda

 

2023

 

MONOGRAPHS

    1. Shloss, Carol. Let the Wind Speak: Mary de Rachewiltz and Ezra Pound. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2023. Preface.

 

DISSERTATIONS

    1. 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.

ESSAY COLLECTIONS AND COLLECTIVE VOLUMES

 

VOLUMES INCLUDING MATERIAL ON EZRA POUND

    1. 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].
    2. 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

    1. 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.
    2. Bădulescu, Dana. "Translation and Transcreation in Ezra Pound's One-Image Poem." Agathos 14.1 [no. 26] (2023): 65-74. Free online.
    3. 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.
    4. Poupard, Duncan James. "In Defense of Ezra Pound's 'Graphological' Translations.'" The Translator, Published online: 5 Apr. 2023. Abstract.
    5. Qiang, Xiao. "Between Literature and Philosophy: On Translating Confucius into English." Translation and Literature 32.1 (Mar. 2023): 22-41. Free online.
    6. 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.
    7. 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.
    8. 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 University The Journal of Graduate School of Social Sciences] 25.1 (2023): 134-149. Free online.
    9. 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.
    10. 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

    1. 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.
    2. 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.
    3. 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.
    4. 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.
    5. 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.
    6. French, Liz. Rev. of Magnificent Rebel: Nancy Cunard in Jazz Age Paris, by Anne De Courcy. Library Journal, Jan. 1, 2023. Free online.
    7. 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.
    8. 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.
    9. 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.
    10. 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.
    11. Liebregts, Peter. Rev. of Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources: The Cantos and the Primal Matter of Troy, by Jonathan Ullyot, English Studies, Published online: 9 Apr. 2023.
    12. 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,
    13. 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.
    14. 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.
    15. 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.
    16. 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.
    17. 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.
    18. Rosenow, Ce. Rev. of Ezra Pound's Japan, by Andrew Houwen. Japanese Studies 43.1 (Jan. 2023): 117-118.
    19. Rubery, Matthew. Rev. of Sound and Literature, ed. Anna Snaith. Media History 29.1 (Jan. 2023): 145-148. First page.
    20. 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.
    21. 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

    1. Fader, Ira. "Ezra Unbound — Trying the Poetry." The wow of poetry, January 27, 2023. Free online and here.
    2. Fader, Ira. "Trying Ezra Pound." The wow of poetry, January 1, 2023. Free online and here.
    3. 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.
    4. 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.
    5. Gillespie, Patrick. "Penitence." PoemShape, February 28, 2023. Free online.
    6. 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.
    7. Kotin, Joshua. "Hugh Kenner's The Pound Era: FAQ." Nonsite.org, April 11, 2023. Free online.
    8. Leow, H.M.A. "Lost in Translation: Ezra Pound's Imagism and the Angel Island Poets." JSTOR Daily, March 21, 2023. Free online.
    9. Lewis, Stephen. "Ezra, Scott [Adams] and artists versus art." record-eagle.com, Mar. 26, 2023. Free online.
    10. McDaniel, Jay. "In a Station of the Metro: Ezra Pound (1885-1972) and Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)." Open Horizons, Feb. 2023. Free online.
    11. Murphy, Justin. "Ezra Pound and the Curse of Genius." Other Life, Apr. 19, 2023. Free online.

 

 

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