Ezra Pound and the Career of Modern Criticism – Professional Attention Coyle

Ezra Pound and the Career of Modern CriticismProfessional Attention\nAuthor(s): Michael G. Coyle, Roxana Preda\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United States\nImprint: Camden House Inc\nISBN-13: 9781571131928, 978-1571131928\nSynopsis\nThis first book-length study of Pound criticism investigates not just what critics have had to say about Pound but also why they have asked the questions they have asked.\n\nForty-five years after his death, and more than seventy years after his indictment for treason, Ezra Pound remains a deeply controversial figure. Today it is hard to imagine a poet sparking national debate, but Pound did just that. His receipt in 1949 of the first-ever Bollingen Award for Poetry started a hue and cry that spread to every US periodical that made even a pretense of following \""cultural\"" issues: even Time weighed in. It took two years for things to simmer down, and when they finally did, literary study looked profoundly different. Everyone enga.