- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 The Ur-Cantos
- 2 Canto 1
- 3 Canto 2
- 4 Canto 4
- 5 Canto 5
- 6 Canto 7
- 7 Canto 8
- 8 Canto 11
- 9 Canto 12
- 10 Canto 13
- 11 Cantos 14–15
- 12 Canto 17
- 13 Cantos 18–19
- 14 Canto 20
- 15 Canto 21
- 16 Canto 25
- 17 Canto 26
- 18 Canto 29
- 19 Canto 30
- 20 Canto 32
- 21 Canto 35
- 22 Canto 36
- 23 Canto 37
- Notes
- Index
Canto 29
Canto 29
- Chapter:
- (p.237) 18 Canto 29
- Source:
- Readings in the Cantos: Volume I
- Author(s):
Alex Pestell
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
My paper reads Canto 29 as a poem informed by Pound’s life in the early 1920s, a time when he was getting to grips with revolutions in his understanding both of economic and sexual values. The canto’s satire on contemporary bourgeois life seems to undercut some of the metaphysical themes upon which Pound relied elsewhere in the epic, and this ambivalence extends to his treatment of women, seen both as enabling channels of intellectual value, and as potential obstructors of Pound’s generative virtù. This essay considers some of the symptoms of Pound’s attempt to get to grips with this new configuration of values, with particular focus on his shifting attitudes to Neoplatonism and sexual politics.
Keywords: Neoplatonism, metaphysics, women, mysticism, value, sex, octopus
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 The Ur-Cantos
- 2 Canto 1
- 3 Canto 2
- 4 Canto 4
- 5 Canto 5
- 6 Canto 7
- 7 Canto 8
- 8 Canto 11
- 9 Canto 12
- 10 Canto 13
- 11 Cantos 14–15
- 12 Canto 17
- 13 Cantos 18–19
- 14 Canto 20
- 15 Canto 21
- 16 Canto 25
- 17 Canto 26
- 18 Canto 29
- 19 Canto 30
- 20 Canto 32
- 21 Canto 35
- 22 Canto 36
- 23 Canto 37
- Notes
- Index
