Poetics Of Loss In The Cantos Of Ezra Pound: From Modernism To Fascism

by Nick Selby

This book examines how the modernist poetics exemplified in Ezra Pound's epic poem "The Cantos" are unavoidably bound-in with the ideological forces underpinning his advocacy of fascism. Overall it argues that Pound's reactionary urge to redefine a lost culture, coupled with his sense of textual annihilation of a validating poetic centre, is the cultural ground on which his ideal of fascist republic rests.

271 pages, Hardcover

First published December 20, 2005

About the author

Nick spent five years writing books for Lonely Planet Publications in Melbourne, Australia, and took half of 1992 to write The Visitor's Guide To The New St Petersburg, the first English-language guide to the city after the collapse of the Soviet Union.