title: Selected Cantos of Ezra Pound
author:  Ezra Pound 
description: Among his fellow modernists, Ezra Pound inspired equal parts admiration and contempt. T.S. Eliot called him &quot;<i>il miglior fabbro</i>&quot; and dedicated &quot;The Waste Land&quot; to him after Pound had surgically stripped down the masterwork. Gertrude Stein, on the other hand, mocked his obsession with &quot;Kulchur&quot; and his pedagogical need to insert his versions of history, thought, economics, and morality into the <i>Cantos</i>. Pound was, she punched, &quot;a village explainer, excellent if you are a village, but if you are not, not.&quot;
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  The Cantos of Ezra Pound
  The Fourth Canto (19 19)
  A Draft of XVI Cantos (1925)
  A Draft of the Cantos 17-27 (1928)
  A Draft of XXX Cantos (1930)
  Eleven New Cantos XXXI-XLI (1934)
  The Fifth Decad of Cantos (1937)
  Cantos LII-LXXI (1940)
  The Pisan Cantos (1948)
  Section: Rock-DrilldelosCantares 85-95 (i955)
  Thrones 96-106 de los Cantares (1959)
  Drafts & Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII (1968)
  Cantos I-CXVII (1970)
  Canto CXX (1972)
  
  SELECTED CANTOS
  OF EZRA POUND
  A NEW DIRECTIONS BOOK
  
  Copyright 1934,
  1937,
  1940, 1948 by Ezra Pound
  Copyright
  (c) 1956, 1959, 1963, 1966, 1968, 1970 by Ezra Pound
  Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 75-114846
  (isbn: 0-81 1 2-0 1 60-0)
  All rights reserved. Except for
  brief passages quoted in a newspaper,
  magazine, radio, or television review, no part of this book may be re-
  produced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including
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