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This second volume of A. David Moody's full-scale portrait, covering Ezra Pound's middle years, weaves together into a single highly readable and challenging narrative, in a way that has not been done before, the illuminating story of his life, his achievement as a poet and a composer, and hisone-man crusade for economic justice.There is new insight into his complicated personal relationships. There are detailed accounts of the composition of his two operas and of his original contribution to the theory of harmony. A canto by canto and decad by decad elucidation of the form and meaning of the first seventy-one cantos of hisepic reveals their hitherto unperceived musical structures and their overall design. The thinking behind his support for Mussolini's economic programme during the Great Depression of the 1930s is brought to light, and shown to be not "fascist" but essentially true to the principles of the AmericanRevolution, and, behind that, to Confucian ideas of responsible government. At the same time it is made clear that he saw only what he wanted to see in Mussolini's Fascism, and later in Hitler's Nazism, and was blind to their darker policies. And it is clear that he went most seriously wrong indeploying, as a weapon in his war on the injustice of the capitalist financial system, the anti-Semitism endemic in Europe and America and at that time turning murderous in Nazi Germany.Pound is revealed as a great poet and a flawed idealist caught up in the turmoil of his darkening time and struggling, sometimes blindly and in error and self-contradiction, to be a force for enlightenment.A third volume will carry on the narrative of his life and works from 1939 to his death in 1972. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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It's truly astonishing how important Pound was as a literary force; people have been making that point since, at least, Kenner's 'Pound Era.' But Moody is more willing to criticize Pound's ideas (rather often bad and/or immoral), without believing that their badness or immorality makes the man himself uninteresting. In fact, he assumes exactly the opposite, and tries to put the best possible spin on Pound's prose... right up until he says something truly despicable (usually about 'the Jews'). At that point Moody comes down on him as hard as anyone should.
Pound is fascinating because he's a kind of 20th century Ideal Type: democrat, yes, but also fascist; materialist, yes, but also obsessed with medieval metaphysics; writer of astonishing abilities who lets leftover romantic stupidities about poetry (essentially turning it into a religious vocation) distort what should have been one of the greatest collected poems of the century.
He wrote some incredible poems; he had an uncanny sense for what was truly important in art and worked tirelessly to promote it (see: Eliot, Joyce, Vivaldi). It's often said that Pound never really went insane, that the insanity was all a legal fiction designed to keep him off the gallows. But it's impossible to read the last third of this book and not see Pound's as a deeply disordered mind. Moody doesn't draw that conclusion; he simply gives you the evidence to draw your own, while making his own argument. A model biography. ( )