The Cantos Summary
Ezra Pound

Everything you need to understand or teach The Cantos by Ezra Pound.

The Cantos Summary & Study Guide

The Cantos Summary

The difficult, sometimes frustrating, often moving, occasionally brilliant epic poem The Cantos is Ezra Pound's most significant contribution to world literature. The poem, though, is rarely read all the way through, and Pound is better remembered for his short poems, his early theoretical writings and manifestoes, and his turbulent personal history. This is unfortunate, because in The Cantos are some of the most beautiful and powerful passages in twentiethcentury poetry. Written over more...

(read more from the Study Guide)

Study Pack

The The Cantos Study Pack contains:

The Cantos Study Guide

Introduction

Author Biography

Plot Summary

Characters

Themes

Style

Criticism

Adaptations

Topics for Further Study

Ezra Pound Biographies (6)

Ezra Loomis Pound

1,770 words, approx. 6 pages

Ezra Loomis Pound (1885-1972), American poet, translator, editor, critic, and esthetic propagandist whose life was surrounded by controversy, is best known for his Cantos (1925-1960), an epic version ... Read more

Ezra Loomis Pound

21,289 words, approx. 71 pages

Biography EssayEzra Pound's influence on the development of poetry in the twentieth century has unquestionably been greater than that of any other poet. No other writer has written as much poetry and ... Read more

Ezra Pound

6,095 words, approx. 21 pages

Visionary, literary pioneer, traitor, poseur, genius. All of these terms have been used at one time or another to describe Ezra Pound, considered one of the major literary figures of the twentieth cen... Read more

Ezra (Weston Loomis) Pound

11,087 words, approx. 37 pages

One of the dominant figures of twentieth-century American literature, Ezra Weston Loomis Pound spent nearly the entirety of his controversial career in exile. Following in the footsteps of Henry J... Read more

Ezra (Weston Loomis) Pound

20,030 words, approx. 67 pages

Ezra Pound 's influence on the development of poetry in the twentieth century has unquestionably been greater than that of any other poet. No other writer has written as much poetry and criticism or d... Read more

Ezra (Weston Loomis) Pound

9,423 words, approx. 32 pages

That he should be included in a volume devoted to American criticism would have both amused and delighted Ezra Pound. His relationship to his native country was so charged, so fretful, so variable, th... Read more

Download the Study Pack

BookRags

The Cantos SummaryEzra Pound