On Ezra Pound's "Notes for CXVII et seq." and "Fragment (1966)".(Critical Essay)

From: ANQ | Date: September 22, 2003| Author: Gwiazda, Piotr | Copyright information

Since its publication in 1968, Ezra Pound's Drafts & Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII has provoked contrary arguments as to whether it should be seen as the poet's admission of defeat on both literary and nonliterary grounds, or as just the opposite, a fulfillment of his lifelong artistic goals. "Dark and tragically bitter" is this volume, which verges on complete silence, says Donald Davie (334). "And, curiously, the silence is a fulfillment," argues Hugh Kenner ("Drafts" 16). Indeed,...

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