Ezra Pound and the Italian Renaissance(s)
When looking for a model for the revolutionary poetics he wanted to invent, Ezra Pound turned in part to the European avant-gardes, as might be expected, but he also looked towards much earlier models, foremost among which was the Renaissance. However, his understanding of the word “renaissance” ran...
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| Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"
2024-12-01
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| Series: | Sillages Critiques |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/16839 |
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| Summary: | When looking for a model for the revolutionary poetics he wanted to invent, Ezra Pound turned in part to the European avant-gardes, as might be expected, but he also looked towards much earlier models, foremost among which was the Renaissance. However, his understanding of the word “renaissance” ran the full gamut of its possible translations and back-translations (rinascimento, risorgimento, awakening, resurgence) and he thus referred not to just one historical period when thinking of a possible artistic renaissance but at least three, all of which took place in Italy: the early-modern Renaissance, the nineteenth-century Risorgimento, and Mussolini’s totalitarian revolution. This paper argues that taking all of these various dimensions into account is necessary to fully comprehend one of the major drives of Pound’s poetics: the desire to “make it new.” |
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| ISSN: | 1272-3819 1969-6302 |