Ezra Pound's Aesthetics and the Origins of Modernism

Ezra Pound was a key figure in helping to create what became 'modernism'. He wrote poetry and criticism based on revolutionary aesthetic principles still relevant to our understanding of the arts today. This new work asks what are these principles and how did Pound develop them?

About the author

Jo Brantley Berryman taught modern and contemporary literature in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts for 30 years. Her posts included Associate Dean and Director of the Poetry Today Series and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy 1988-89. She was the National Chief Reader for the Advanced Placement Literature Exams, Educational Testing Service, 1989-92. She is the author of Circe's Craft: Ezra Pound's 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley' (UMI Research Press, 1974), and of numerous articles on Ezra Pound and modernist poetry including essays in Ezra Pound and Modernism, The Irish Factor and Ezra Pound's Green World. Nature, Landscape and Language, both available from EER.

Product details

• Authors: JO BRANTLE BERRYMAN, Jo Brantley Berryman
• Publisher: Edward Everett Root
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781913087166
• ISBN: 978-1-913087-16-6
• No. of pages: 172
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 409 g
• Series: Writers and Their Contexts; WRITERS & THEIR CONTEXTS 5
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies