Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources

This book uses Ezra Pound''s The Cantos as a lens to understand modernism''s ambition to revolutionize literature through mythical and scientific methods. Homer''s Odyssey plays a unique methodological and structural role in The Cantos. The Cantos translates, interprets, abridges, adapts, critiques, parodies, trivializes, allegorizes, and “ritualizes” the Odyssey. Partly inspired by Joyce''s use o...