Ezra Pound and the Legacy of The Cantos
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
EPIC-30 Co-Conveners
Roxana Preda, University of Edinburgh
Andrew Taylor, University of Edinburgh
Walter Baumann, University of Ulster
John Gery, University of New Orleans
EPIC Organizing Committee
University of Edinburgh:
Alex Thomson
Sam Brudell
Sian Cusack
EPIC Advisory Committee
Massimo Bacigalupo, University of Genoa
Walter Baumann, University of Ulster
Diana Collecott. University of Durham
John Gery, University of New Orleans (Secretary)
Alan Golding, University of Louisville
David Moody, University of York
Akitoshi Nagahata, Nagoya University
Viorica Patea, University of Salamanca
MONDAY, 26 JUNE 2023
11:00–12:00
Walking Tour, The Royal Mile, Edinburgh
Meeting Place:
Castle esplanade
EH1 2NG
14:00–16:00
Visit to National Library of Scotland
Meeting Place:
Library entrance on George IV Bridge
EH1 1EW
19:30–22:00
Informal Gathering
Meeting Place:
Teviot Place summer garden
EH8 9AG
TUESDAY, 27 JUNE 2023
University of Edinburgh
50 George Square
8:00-9:30: REGISTRATION, 50 George Square
Ground Floor Corridor, Screening Room
9:30-10.45
Session 1: Plenary
The Legacy of Ezra Pound
Screening Room, Ground Floor
Chair: Roxana Preda, University of Edinburgh
Walter Baumann, University of Ulster
How I Became a Poundian
Austin Briggs, Hamilton College
My Day with E.P.: 8 June 1969, Hamilton College
Alex Thomson, Head of School of Literatures Languages and Cultures
Welcome Address
10:45-11:15: TEA/COFFEE BREAK
11:15-12:30
Session 2A: The Legacy of Pound in London: Imagism, Joyce and Vorticism
Project Room
Chair: Jo Brantley Berryman, California Institute of the Arts
Whit Frazier Peterson, University of Stuttgart
The Image Remains: Ezra Pound’s Des Imagistes One Hundred Years Later
Krista Rascoe, Tarrant Count College, Texas
Pound and Joyce: Constructing Images and Friendship
Hidetoshi Tomiyama, Meiji Gakuin University (Tokyo)
Images and Metaphors in the “Vorticism” Essay
Session 2B: Canonical Methods and Motives in The Cantos
Room G01
Chair: Giuliana Ferreccio, Università di Torino
Rosina Martucci, Università degli Studi di Salerno
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri and The Cantos by Ezra Pound: Textual, Linguistic and Cultural Interferences
Rhett Forman, Tarleton State University (Texas)
Ezra Pound’s Aristotle and the Scientific Poet
Karina Ibragimova, Lomonosov Moscow State University
“Go, my song” and “Pull down thy vanity”: Canto 36 and Canto 81
12:30-14:00: LUNCH Registration Area, Ground Floor
14:00-15:15
Session 3A: In the Company of the Elder Ezra
Project Room
Chair: Diana Collecott, University of Durham
Stefano Maria Casella, Università IULM, Milan
Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot: Juvenile Visions, Old Age Revelations
Mary Maxwell, Poet and Independent Scholar, Truro, Massachusetts
Ezra Pound and The Washington Spectator
Helen Carr, Goldsmiths, University of London
End to Torment and Winter Love
Session 3B: The Chinese Philosophers and The Cantos
Room G01
Chair: Kent Su, Shanghai International Studies University
Xiaocui Tan, Qilu University of Technology
Confucian Ethics in Ezra Pound’s Canto 13
Wenting Li, Sichuan International Studies University
The Integration of Translation and Creative Writing in Ezra Pound's Canto 13
Kenneth Haynes, Brown University
Ezra Pound’s Mencius
15:15-15:45: TEA/COFFEE BREAK
15:45-17:00
Session 4: Plenary
Pound in Print, Pound in the Canon
Project Room
Chair: Roxana Preda, University of Edinburgh
Rebecca Beasley, University of Oxford
A Draft of XXX Cantos: Pound, Cunard, and The Hours Press
Michael Coyle, Colgate University
Compleynt of Artemis: Dorothy Shakespear and the Purifications of the Third Folio
Anderson Araujo, University of British Columbia, Kelowna
“Toward a bridge over worlds”: Ezra Pound’s Poetry as World Literature
17:00-17:30: PAUSE
17.30-18:30 Special Event
Reid Hall
Session 5: Nine Troubadour Songs (Haesternae Rosae), translated by Ezra Pound, set to music by Walter Morse Rummel
Introduction: Roxana Preda, University of Edinburgh
Vocals: John Sweeney, baritone.
Piano: Philip Mayers
DINNER ON YOUR OWN
RECITAL PROGRAM
CHANSSON DOIL MOT.
Arnaut Daniel.
[fin du XIIième siècle]
With words both clear and exquisite
I'll sing, for buds are blowing sweet
Where frail sprays meet
And flowers don
Their bold blazon
Where leafage springeth greenly
O'er shadowing the birds that sing
And cry through coppice seemly
Among the boughs their song is fleet
In shame's avoid my staves compete
Fine-filed and neat
with love's glaives on,
His way they run,
From him I may not turn me
Although he bring
great sorrowing
And though he proudly spurn me.
LO FERM VOLER
Arnaut Daniel.
[fin du XIIième siècle]
Firm desire that doth enter
My heart will not be hid by bolts nor nailing
Nor slanderers who loose their arms by lying
And dare not fight with even twigs and switches
Yea, by some jest, there where no uncle enters
I'll have my joy in garden or in chamber
I remember oft that chamber
Where, to my loss, I know that no man enters
But leaves me free as would a brother or uncle.
I shake in ev'ry part except my nails
As doth a child, for fear, before the switch
For fear I shall not come unto her arms.
QUANT L’HERBA FRESQ EL FUELL APAR
Bernart de Ventadour.
[milieu du XIIième siècle]
When grass starts green and flowers rise
A-leaf in garden and in close
And philomel in dulcet cries
And lifted notes his heart bestows.
Joy I've in him and in the flowers joy
E’en joy in me have I yet more employ
Hath joy in her in whom my joy is cast
She is such joy as hath all joys o’er past.
I love her so and so her prize,
I fear her and such thoughts oppose
That my poor words dare not arise,
Nor speech nor deeds my heart disclose.
And yet she knows the depth of my annoy
And, when she will, she will her grace employ
For God's love, Love, put now our love to test
For time goes by and we here waste his best.
LAS GRANS BEAUTATZ
Folquet de Romans (Rotmans)
[commencement du XIIIième siécle]
Her beauty and the fineness of her thought
And her true heart and all the food of praise.
And her high speech and the new-fangled ways
That colour hath when to her cheek 'tis brought
Give me the will for song and knowledge of it
Such were my song but such fears crowd above it
I dare not say 'tis you of whom I'm fain
And know not what shall count me loss or gain.
My love of her so secretly is wrought
That none save I and Love know love’s assay
And on my heart the flame in secrets preys,
Yet knowing this, you are not much distraught.
And yet I have such fear lest you reprove it,
That my heart scarce dares show you that you move it.
Yet if, when we're alone I daren't speak out
At least my songs shall say what I'm about.
TANT M’ABELIS
de Palazol.
[milieu du XIIième siècle.]
So pleaseth me joy and good love and song
And merriment, fine ways and gentle breeding.
Nor silver nor rich rent has earth for heeding
That I would prize above such gifts for long
These are the things where on my hope is cast
But she hath them so in her beck and call
That without her I can get none at all.
So have I wished her good and her advance
And so loved her and so wished to be with her
That if she'd send me off, I know I'd neither
Have strength nor sense to go, by any chance.
If I speak her great praise and hold it fast
In what I've said, no man can prove me wrong
For by her fact, I can prove true my song.
MERE AU SAUVEOUR
Williaume li Viniers.
[milieu du XIIIième siècle]
Maiden and Virgin loyal
In whom here Christ's God head.
As child glorious royal
Was conceived, born, nourished
Sweet maid be thy heart full fed
May his love and his grace allay
Thee this day,
when the Holy Ghost
By God's son honoured Thee most.
Lady imperious
O marvelous fleur-de-lys,
The holy fruit for us
Thou hast born specially
Ah, rose branch and sovran tree
Thou hast the flower, and fleet
Odour sweet
Whereby paradise
Shall be brought before our eyes.
LI GRANZ DESIRS
Li Cuens d’Angou.
[milieu du XIIIième siècle]
The great desire sheds fragrance o'er my thinking.
My thought for you, Madame, who'rt worth so much
Hath in it pain 'gainst which there is no blinking,
You have me made and have long held me such
Still my tormented heart lies in your clutch
Which naught shall loose save Death come nigh to touch.
Except thy grace should prove my pain's unlinking.
The great desire and the keen pain behind it
Have wrought on the true heart such honest grief
That as thou gavest joy thou now dost blind it
Ah, thou wert made for pleasure past belief.
And if thou grant me never sweet relief
And if thou grant me never thy relief.
Then mercy's hid where I shall never find it.
MAINTA IEN ME MAL RAZONA
[fin du XIIième siècle.]
Many people here miscall me.
That I sing so seldom now,
But that fair whose thoughts befall me
I know not how long, nor how,
Hath bound my thoughts so woefully
That the chains thereon appall me,
And I’ve lost all joy and glee
So doth ill fortune gall me.
She hath banished all my pleasure
And is honoured naught by this,
With some well turned lies and leisure
She might well have wrought my bliss,
Such long delay before the kiss
Overfloweth folly's measure
And for payment cries I wis,
Shame’s all I get to treasure.
A L’ENTRADE
Chanson à danser
de la fin du XIIième siècle.
When cometh the clear time in, eya!
That our joys we may begin, eya!
To stir up the jealous men, eya!
Is our queen to show again
what gifts she has for play
Jealousy Ha-a-i-e be gone
Go we now, so we now a dancing our own way, our own way.
Ha! ha! here doth come the king! eya!
What a temper he doth bring! eya!
Bids us dancers break our ring! eya!
Lest his lady have her fling;
His April go a Maying.
Jealousy, Ha-a-i-e be gone
Go we now, go we now, a dancing our own way, our own way.
But our sweetest lady here, eya!
Hath of old men little care, eya!
And for light-foot bachelors, eya!
Keepeth she that heart of hers, Heig-ho!
what merry straying!
Jealousy Ha-a-i-e, be gone
Go we now, go we now, a dancing our own way, our own way.
WEDNESDAY, 28 JUNE 2023
9:00-17:00: REGISTRATION
Second Floor, Project Room
9:30-10.45
Session 6A: Pound's Legacy of Friends and Family
Project Room
Chair: Andy Trevathan, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Hannu Riikonen, University of Helsinki
Jim or Mr. Joyce? Names, Titles and Forms of Address in The Cantos
Stephen Wilson, Universidade de Coimbra
“…the fire bucket, 1806 Barre Mass’chusetts…” and what that entails: The Testamentary Poetics of Ezra Pound’s Cantos.
Session 6B: Modalities for reading The Cantos
Room G01
Chair: Courtney Ruffner Grieneisen, State College of Florida
Edward McLaren, University of Edinburgh
Pound’s Spinning Top
Youngmin Kim, Linnaeus University/Dongguk University/Hangzhou Normal University
“Ezra Pound‘s The Cantos and World Literature Project: Distant Reading of Scale Up/Down from a Global Perspective”
Louis de Beaumont, Independent Scholar
POUNDIAN / A Digital Approach to The Cantos
10:45-11:15: TEA/COFFEE BREAK
11:15-12:30
Session 7A: Paradigm Shifts and The Cantos: Mauberley and Noh
Project Room
Chair: Andrew Houwen, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University
Timothy J. Cook, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Modernizing Western Epic: Yeats, Pound, and H. D.
Akiko Manabe, Shiga University
Blindness and Light in Pound’s paradiso terrestre: Another Study on Noh in The Cantos, especially Kagekiyo
Yoshiko Kita, Chuo University
The Cantos and Ezra Pound’s Translation of Noh
Session 7B:
Pound’s Legacy I: The European Heritage
Room G01
Chair: Michael Coyle, Colgate University
Charlotte Estrade, Université Paris Nanterre
Pound’s Legacy in France: The Pivotal Role of the Cahiers de L’Herne (1966 – 1997)
Emanuele Zoppellari Perale, University of Turin
Poets in Paradise: Andrea Zanzotto’s Reading of Pound’s “Paradisiacal” Cantos
Viorica Patea, Universidad de Salamanca
Make It New and the Spanish Novísimos: Pound’s Legacy in Spain
12:30-14:00: LUNCH BREAK (on your own)
14:00-15:15
Session 8A: Eurasia and The Cantos
Project Room
Chair: Akitoshi Nagahata, Nagoya University
Ryan Johnson, University of Sydney
“And the russe”: Semi-Asiatic Russian in The Cantos
Yuxin Zhang, University of Sydney
“To the Odes to escape abstract yatter”: Shijing in The Cantos
Mark Byron, University of Sydney
“The Slide of Byzantium”: The Cantos’ Other Empire
Session 8B: Pound’s Legacy II: The Scots and the Canadians
Room G01
Chair: Rhett Forman, Tarleton State University (Texas)
Giacomo Bianchino, Graduate Center, City University of New York
The School of Ezra Pound and MacDiarmid’s Methods
John Gery, University of New Orleans
Scots Poundian: The Criticism and Poetry of G.S. Fraser
Stewart Donavan, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick
Ezra Pound’s Legacy in the North Country
15:15-15:45: TEA/COFFEE BREAK
15:45-17:00
Session 9A: The Cantos and the Green World
Project Room
Chair: Stephen Romer, Brasenose College, University of Oxford
Jeff Grieneisen, State College of Florida
Finding Meaning in the Balance: Vorticism, Machine Age and the Ecocritical Breakthrough in The Cantos
Martina Kolb, Susquehanna University of Pennsylvania
Gathering from the Air a Live Tradition: Nietzsche, Pound and Kenneth White
Leonor María Martínez Serrano, Universidad de Córdoba
Being in Being: Ontological Attention in The Cantos of Ezra Pound
Session 9B: Pound’s Legacy III: The Asian Heritage
Room G01
Chair: Matz McLaughlin, Tokyo University of Science
Duncan Poupard, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Decline of the “Ideogram” After The Cantos
Andrew Houwen, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University
“Your Sacred Words”: The Cantos in the Poetry of Takahashi Mutsuo
Kent Su, Shanghai International Studies University
Poundian Legacy in Contemporary Chinese Poetry: Yang Lian’s Concentric Circles
17:00-17:30: RECEPTION Project Room
17:30-19:00
Special Event EPIC Poetry Reading
Project Room
Chair: Jeff Grieneisen, State College of Florida
Poets:
Silvia Falsaperla
Rhett Forman
John Gery
Jeff Grieneisen
Tony Lopez
Mary Maxwell
Matz McLaughlin
Biljana Obradovic
Stephen Romer
and others
DINNER ON YOUR OWN
THURSDAY, 29 JUNE 2023
9:00-11:00: REGISTRATION Project Room
9:30-10.45
Session 10A: Pound and the Far-Right
Project Room
Chair: Anderson Araujo, University of British Columbia, Kelowna
Christian Goodwillie and Steve Yao, Hamilton College
New Evidence from the Archive: Ezra Pound, Ettore Rella, and Fascism
Andrea Rinaldi, University of Bergen
“From the wreckage of Europe”: The Legacy of The Cantos in Italian Post-War Far-Right
Julius Greve, University of Oldenburg
Broadcasting Reaction: Politics and Aesthetics in Ezra Pound and Kanye West
Session 10B: Pound’s Legacy in the Art of Translation
Room 2.39
Chair: Martina Kolb, Susquehanna University of Pennsylvania
Matz McLaughlin, Tokyo University of Science
Pound and Blackburn: Ezra Pound’s Legacy as Translator and Mentor
Joanna Trzeciak Huss, Kent State University
The Bridge to Pound: Eva Hesse, The Cantos, and Tadeusz Różewicz’s Pound Tetrology
Espen Grønlie, Oslo International School of Philosophy, Rome
Scandinavian Translations of The Cantos
10:45-11:15: TEA/COFFEE BREAK
11:15-12:30
Session 11A: Metaphysical Pound and The Cantos
Project Room
Chair: Peter Liebregts, Leiden University
Robert von Hallberg, Claremont McKenna College
Ezra Pound, Explainer: Guide to Kulchur
James Dowthwaite, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena
“All done by conversation”: Vienna and the Salon Style of Cantos XXXV and XXXVIII
Giuliana Ferreccio, Università di Torino
Ezra Pound and Richard Saint Victor: The Eye and the Mind
Session 11B: Pound’s Legacy IV: The American Heritage
Room 2.39
Chair: Viorica Patea, Universidad de Salamanca
Daniela Daniele, Università degli studi di Udine
Pound and Zukofsky; An Unprejudiced Transatlantic Dialogue
Michael Kindellan, University of Sheffield
The Cantos and the “New American Poetry”
Tetsuo Koga, Osaka Metropolitan University
Poetic Justice and its Consequences: The Case of Pound and Amiri Baraka
12:30-13:30: LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
13:30-17:30 Excursion to Abbotsford
The bus for Abbotsford departs from Potterrow, at Bristo Square, next to McEwan Hall. The bus will be waiting. Participants must be at the bus door by 13.20 to join the excursion.
Price per person: £32 (Advance reservation required)
FRIDAY, 30 JUNE 2023
9:00-9:30: REGISTRATION
9:30-10.45
Session 12A: Post-War Pound and the Avant-Garde
Project Room
Chair: Robert von Hallberg, Claremont McKenna College
Felix Marzillier, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science and Humanities
The Poetics of Palimpsest: The German Avant-Garde Composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann and the Musical Legacy of The Cantos
Courtney Ruffner Grieneisen, State College of Florida
“Razzista, Fascista, Etccetera”: Pound’s Influence on Pasolini
Francesca Cadel, University of Calgary
Ezra Pound’s Presence in Pier Paolo Pasolini Posthumous Novel, Petrolio (1992).
Session 12B: Pound and Postmodern Pedagogy
Room 2.39
Chair: Mark Byron, University of Sydney
Jo Brantley Berryman, California Institute of the Arts
Understanding Pound: A Paradigm Shift – McLuhan, Eisenstein, Fenollosa, and La Pia
Andy Trevathan, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
The Elephant in the Room: Teaching Pound’s Poetry
10:45-11:15: TEA/COFFEE BREAK
11:15-12:30
Session 13: Plenary: The Classical Legacy in The Cantos
Project Room
Chair: Massimo Bacigalupo, Università di Genova
Katerina (Kathryn) Stergiopoulou, Princeton University
Learning “a little greek” in the Late Cantos
Peter Liebregts, Leiden University
Pound, Horace and the Question of Legacy
12:30-14:00: LUNCH Ground Floor
14:00-15:15
Session 14: Plenary 3: Readings in The Cantos
Project Room
Chair: Ron Bush, Oxford University
Roxana Preda, University of Edinburgh
Canto 49 – A Look from the Other Side
Akitoshi Nagahata, Nagoya University
Composition with History as a Legacy: Reading the Historical Accounts of Hideyoshi in Canto 58
Massimo Bacigalupo, Università di Genova
Between Kung and Eleusis: Canto 106
15:15-15:45: TEA/COFFEE BREAK
15:45-17:00
Session 15: Thy True Heritage: The Future of Pound Studies
An Open Discussion
Project Room
Chairs: Mark Byron, University of Sydney
John Gery, University of New Orleans
Akitoshi Nagahata, Nagoya University
Roxana Preda, University of Edinburgh
17:00-17:10: PAUSE
17:10-18:00
Session 16: Business Meeting
Project Room
Chairs: Walter Baumann, University of Ulster
John Gery, University of New Orleans
19:00-21:00
BANQUET South Hall in the Pollock Halls complex
This location is about a 20-minute walk from 50 George Square. It can also be reached by bus: A 3-minute walk from 50 George Square to St. Patrick’s Square bus stop. Take busses #2, 30, or 33 south to the Commonwealth Pool (3 stops). From that stop, it is a 3-minute walk.
Address: 18 Holyrood Park Rd, Edinburgh EH16 5AR
SATURDAY, 1 JULY 2023
POST-CONFERENCE EXCURSION
Glencoe – Ben Nevis – Loch Ness
7:45 am:
Meeting point will be the same as for the Abbotsford trip. Bus stop on Potterow, at Bristo Square.
Price per person: £85 (Advance reservation required)
One-day excursion from Edinburgh to Loch Ness, along the Kelpies, Stirling, and the Wallace Monument, a brief stop at Kilmahog, a stop at historic Glencoe, and a drive by the Great Glen pass under the shadow of Ben Nevis to Fort Augustus on Loch Ness (lunch on your own). After a 50-minute boat trip on Loch Ness (included in price), the bus will return through Laggan, Blair, and Pitlochry to Edinburgh.
8:00 pm: Return to Edinburgh