Canzoni & Ripostes
Early Anglo-American Modernism, Imagist Precision, Troubadour Forms, and Prewar London VerseBy Ezra Pound, T. E. Hulme
Length29m
About this audiobook
Canzoni & Ripostes brings together two formative volumes of early modernist poetry, where inherited lyric forms encounter an exacting new economy of image and cadence. The collection ranges from elaborate, allusive canzoni and dramatic monologues to terse urban sketches, translations, satires, and imagistic fragments. Its most striking poems test how compression, colloquial sharpness, and visual precision might renovate English verse, while its engagement with Provençal, classical, and contemporary European traditions situates innovation within a learned internationalism. Ezra Pound and T. E. Hulme stand at a crucial threshold in Anglo-American modernism. Pound's cosmopolitan scholarship, translation practice, and formal experimentation meet Hulme's austere, anti-Romantic insistence on concrete language and disciplined perception. Together, their work registers the intellectual ferment preceding Imagism: a movement committed to direct treatment, rhythmic freedom, and the rejection of vague abstraction. The juxtaposition reveals not a single doctrine but a productive tension between ornate historical consciousness and radical brevity. This volume is essential for readers interested in the origins of modernist poetics and in poetry's capacity to remake tradition through experiment. It offers a compact yet richly varied encounter with competing voices, forms, and theories of the image. Students, scholars, and attentive general readers will find in its dialogues a valuable map of literary change.
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Rating★★★★ 3.7 (14)
Includes Goodreads
GenrePoetry
Length29 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 25, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Selected Poems (Annotated)
4T.E. HULME
2WHERETO ARE APPENDED THE
5RIPOSTES
3COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF
6PREFATORY NOTE
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