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Elektra - A Play by Ezra Pound
R. Reid
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Description for Elektra - A Play by Ezra Pound
Hardback. Num Pages: 130 pages. BIC Classification: WZ. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 666.
This critical edition of Ezra Pound's Elektra marks the most significant appearance in twenty years of a "new" work by the controversial poet. Composed in the early months of 1949, while Pound was under indictment for treason and hospitalized by court order in Washington, D.C., this hitherto unpublished version of Sophocles' play documents a critical stage in the poet's writing career: with his subsequent rendition of Sophocles' Trachiniae and his ongoing translations from the Chinese classics, it signaled his return to sustained composition and his eventual decision to resume his life work, the Cantos. The success of Carey Perloff's Classic ... Read more
This critical edition of Ezra Pound's Elektra marks the most significant appearance in twenty years of a "new" work by the controversial poet. Composed in the early months of 1949, while Pound was under indictment for treason and hospitalized by court order in Washington, D.C., this hitherto unpublished version of Sophocles' play documents a critical stage in the poet's writing career: with his subsequent rendition of Sophocles' Trachiniae and his ongoing translations from the Chinese classics, it signaled his return to sustained composition and his eventual decision to resume his life work, the Cantos. The success of Carey Perloff's Classic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
Number of pages
130
Condition
New
Number of Pages
129
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691629681
SKU
V9780691629681
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