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Record Nr.

UNINA9910151627903321

Autore

Tryphonopoulos Demetres P. <1956->

Titolo

The celestial tradition [[electronic resource] ] : a study of Ezra Pound's the Cantos / / Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., Canada, : W. Laurier University Press, c1992

ISBN

1-282-23346-7

9786613811202

0-88920-578-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

811/.52

Soggetti

Occultism in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-205) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Despite the painstaking work of Pound scholars, the mythos of The Cantos has yet to be properly understood - primarily because until now its occult sources have not been examined sufficiently. Drawing upon archival as well as recently published material, this study traces Pound's intimate engagement with specific occultists (W.B. Yeats, Allen Upward, Alfred Orage, and G.R.S. Mead) and their ideas. The author argues that speculative occultism was a major factor in the evolution of Pound's extraordinary aesthetic and religious sensibility, much noticed in Pound criticism.