The Cantos

Name: The Cantos
Author: Ezra Pound

by Ezra Pound

Modernist epic poem spanning history, myth, and fragmented cultural references in challenging form

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Ezra Pound

American modernist poet whose Cantos, a vast unfinished epic, attempted to synthesize world culture. His early imagist manifestoes and editorial influence on Eliot, Joyce, and others were crucial to the development of modernism.

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