The Utopian City in the Cantos of Ezra Pound.(Essays)(Critical Essay)

From: Utopian Studies | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

"Each age dreams up the one to follow. Future! Future!"

(Qtd. in Benjamin 36)

SHAPED AFTER THE ODYSSEY and the Divine Comedy, Ezra Pound's Cantos, the great American epic of the twentieth century, recounts a voyage. This is the journey back home, or [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]. This voyage, at the time when Pound writes the first thirty Cantos in 1930, encompasses time and space and displays "an exploration through history, which, after the Hell and Purgatory of the earlier Cantos, would presumably end in Paradise, in the lost city which Pound variously conceived and ...

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