- 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 35
Canto 35
- Chapter:
- (p.273) 21 Canto 35
- Source:
- Readings in the Cantos: Volume I
- Author(s):
Richard Parker
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
In this chapter I address Ezra Pound’s Canto 35, exploring its relation to and discussion of “Mitteleuropa”. The Canto is profoundly ambivalent throughout, making it hard to discern Pound’s attitude towards this complex region. I argue that this ambivalence is a part of the poetics of this piece and reflects Pound’s conception of the region. The poet’s use of material derived from the anecdotes of his friends is also key to this poetics, and I analyse various uses of material found in this way, exploring the ramifications for the poem and Pound’s understanding of this familial method.
Keywords: Modernism, Mitteleuropa, Anti-Semitism, Louis Zukofsky, Tibor Serly, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Henry Miller
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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