Title: "Gird on thy star, We'll have this out with fate."
Product review: This is a collection of Pound's earlier verse, and items he particularly did not want published in Personae (Personae: The Shorter Poems (Revised Edition)). It's a shame, really, because some of these poems are pure gold, and demonstrate a lyrical quality to Pound's verse of which most casual students are unaware. For instance, we all learned "In a Station of the Metro," but how many of us learned poems like "The Summons" or "Vana?" Pound's gifts were manifold, and this book makes that quite apparent on just a cursory reading. I drop it a star simply because I cannot always palate Pound's taste for archaic language, and think he could have benefited from his own American dialect. That being said, Pound--for me--is the master, and this an excellent collection of his work.
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