The Literary Essays of Ezra Pound.
Norfolk: New Directions, 1954. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with light sunning to the spine, light rubbing to the extremities and a small chip to the top edge of the rear panel. For this definitive collection of Pound's Literary Essays, his friend (and English editor) T. S. Eliot chose material from five earlier volumes: Pavannes and Divisions (1918), Instigations (1920), How to Read (1931), Make It New (1934), and Polite Essays (1937). 33 pieces are arranged in three groups: "The Art of Poetry," "The Tradition," and "Contemporaries." Eliot wrote in his introduction: "I hope that this volume will demonstrate that Pound's literary criticism is the most important contemporary criticism of its kind . . perhaps the kind we can least afford to do without . . . the refreshment, the revitalization and ‘making new' of literature in our time."There were only 2000 copies in the first printing. Item #28714
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