Early Writings

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The powerful early writings of one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century

Ezra Pound makes his Penguin Classics debut with this unique selection of his early poems and prose, edited with an introductory essay and notes by Pound expert Ira Nadel. The poetry includes such early masterpieces as The Seafarer, Homage to Sextus Propertius, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, and the first eight of Pound's incomparable Cantos. The prose includes a series of articles and critical pieces, with essays on Imagism, Vorticism, Joyce, and the well-known Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry.