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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Main Author: Emilie Georges
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Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2024-12-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/16839
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description 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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Ezra Pound and the Italian Renaissance(s)
Sillages Critiques
Renaissance
Modernism
Poetry
Pound (Ezra)
Botticelli (Sandro)
Ruskin (John)
title Ezra Pound and the Italian Renaissance(s)
title_full Ezra Pound and the Italian Renaissance(s)
title_fullStr Ezra Pound and the Italian Renaissance(s)
title_full_unstemmed Ezra Pound and the Italian Renaissance(s)
title_short Ezra Pound and the Italian Renaissance(s)
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topic Renaissance
Modernism
Poetry
Pound (Ezra)
Botticelli (Sandro)
Ruskin (John)
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