Paideuma 25.3

WINTER 1996

CONTENTS

The Periplum

William McNaughton, “Pound’s Usura and the Islamic Concept of Riba“

Paul Wellen, “Analytical Dictionary of Ezra Pound’s Chinese Characters”

The Explicator

Ned Sparrow, “Ezra Pound’s Ideogrammic Legacy”

Ezra Pound, “On Criticism in General”

The Reviewer

Richard Taylor (Peter Stoicheff, The Hall of Mirrors/Drafts & Fragments and The End of Ezra Pound’s Cantos)

Demetres Tryphonopoulos (Leonard Diepeveen, Changing Voices: The Modern Quoting Poem)

Kevin J. H. Dettmar (Pound, Thayer, Watson and The Dial, a Story in Letters, ed. Walter Sutton)

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Paideuma 25.1-2

SPRING and FALL 1996

Achilles Fang
August 20, 1910-November 22, 1995

CONTENTS

The Periplum

Peter Th. M. G. Liebregts, “Yeatsian Moods and Plotinian Ecstasy: The Question of the Self in Ezra Pound’s A Lume Spento”

Kendra Langetieg, “Visions in the Crystal Ball: Ezra Pound, H.D., and the Form of the Mystical”

Cristina Guenzi, “Music and Poetry Which Evoke Nature: David Sylvian and Ezra Pound”

Peter Crisp, “Pound — Millenarian or Utopian?”

Anita George, “The Pisan Mysteries: Sex, Death and Rebirth in The Pisan Cantos”

Burton Hatlen, “Pound and Nature: A Reading of Canto XXIII”

The Explicator

Edwin J. Barton, “Of Labyrinths and Vacuum Tubes: Pound, McCluhan, and Canto LXXXII”

Kathleen Capps, “The François Villon-Ezra Pound Connection: From The Testament to The Cantos“

Thomas Cole, “Further Notes on Pound and His Poetry”

Thomas Dilworth, “The Other ‘Person of Some Interest’ in Pound’s ‘Portrait d’une Femme'”

Leslie Hatcher and Hugh Witemeyer, “Lord Palmerston as Factive Hero in The Cantos“

Sascha Feinstein, “In Honor of the Sacred Heart: A Memoir of Schloss Brunnenburg”

A. David Moody, “‘They Dug Him up out of Sepulture’: Pound, Erigena and Fiorentino”

The Reviewer

Songpin Jin (A Guide to Ezra Pound and Ernest Fenollosa’s Classic Noh Theatre of Japan, ed. Akiko Miyake, Sanehide Kodama and Nicholas Teele)

Jesus Pardo de Santayana (Ezra Pound, Cantares Completos Tomo I [Cantares I-LI])

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Paideuma 24.2-3

FALL and WINTER 1995

This Issue of Paideuma Has Been Guest-Edited
by Tim Redman and Vincent Sherry

CONTENTS

Dannah Edwards, “Report on the 1994 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar ‘Ezra Pound and His Contemporaries'”

Alma Bennett, “Pound and the Malatestan Territory: A 1994 Update”

Vance Crummett, “‘F.B. and I Are of One Party’: Pound’s Reading of Bacon’s Novum Organum“

Dannah Edwards, “Addendum to the Preliminary Ctaalog of Ezra Pound’s Library”

Albert Glover, “Evolution in Ezra Pound’s Poetics of History and Charles Olson’s Special View“

Will Wells, “Pound and Ungaretti: A Resonating Silence”

Melita Schaum, “The Grammar of the Visual: Alvin Langdon Coburn, Ezra Pound, and the Eastern Aesthetic in Early Modernist Photography and Poetry”

Burton Hatlen, “The Imagist Poetics of H.D.’s Sea Garden“

Michael Patrick Gillespie, “The Legacy of 1914: Pound, Lewis, Eliot, and the Composition of Finnegans Wake“

Robert Gingher, “Pound/Lawrence: A Re-Evaluation”

Alec Marsh, “Thaddeus Coleman Pound’s ‘Newspaper Scrapbook’ as a Source for the Cantos”

Ellen Keck Stauder, “Beyond the Synopsis of Vision: The Conception of Art in Ezra Pound and Mina Loy”

The Review

Gail McDonald (J. J. Wilhelm, Ezra Pound/The Tragic Years, 1925-1972)

Michael Coyle (Cary Wolfe, The Limits of American literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson)

Reed Way Dasenbrock (Modernism/Modernity)

Robert Spoo (Michael North, The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound)

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Paideuma 24.1

SPRING 1995

This Issue of Paideuma Is Dedicated to
Olga Rudge
on the Occasion of her 100th Birthday
April 13, 1995

CONTENTS

The Periplum

Anne Conover, “Her Name Was Courage: Olga Rudge, Pound’s Muse and the ‘Circe/Aphrodite’ of the Cantos”

Marisa Anne Pagnattaro, “The ‘Unwobbling Pivot’: Uncertainty and Process in The Pisan Cantos“

Claudia Ingram, “Sharing Strategies with the Discourses of Authority: Ezra Pound and the Legal ‘Modernists'”

Yuet May Ching, “From Priest to Victim: The Problem of Sacrifice in Allen Upward and Ezra Pound”

Colin McDowell, “Using the Dictionary: Wicket Gate and Wormwood”

The Explicator

Leslie Hatcher, “‘Circe’s This Craft’: The Active Female Principle in The Cantos“

Evan R. Karachalios, “Sacrifice and Selectivity in Ezra Pound’s First Canto”

Cameron McWhirter and Ramsay Muhler, “Serious Character to Funny Man: Ezra Pound’s Brief Correspondence with Alexander Woollcott”

Sylvan Esh, “Paquin and Davila: Pulling Down Vanity in Canto 81”

The Reviewer

Ronald Bush (Variorum Edition of “Three Cantos”: A Prototype, ed. Richard Taylor)

Richard Taylor (Ezra Pound and James Laughlin, Selected Letters, ed. David M. Gordon)

Leszek Engelking (Ezra Pound, Chtel jsem napsat raj (vybor z dila), ed. Petr Mikeš; tr. Kamil Bednar, Jitka Herynkova, and Petr Mikeš; intr. Josef Jarab)

Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos (The Letters of Ezra Pound to Alice Corbin Henderson, ed. Ira B. Nadel)

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Paideuma 23.2-3

FALL and WINTER 1994

CONTENTS

The Periplum

Songpin Jin, “Observation of Natural Scenes: Ta Hsüeh and Pound’s Later Cantos”

Fan A. Shen, “Yijing and Pound’s Cantos (1) and (2)”

Xiaomei Chen, “Rediscovering Ezra Pound: A Post-Colonial ‘Misreading’ of a Western Legacy”

Christine Syros, “Beyond Language: Ezra Pound’s Translation of the Sophoclean Elektra“

Jonathan Brewer, “Practice, ‘Taught and the Not Taught,’ in The Pisan Cantos“

Piotr Parlej, “The Provence of the North: Pound’s Poetics of Tension”

Peter Crisp, “Pound as Gnostic? Creative Mythology and the Goddess”

Ethan Lewis, “Super-Position: Interpretive Metaphor”

The Explicator

Songpin Jin, “Flowers, Wings, in the Garden Enclosure”

Martin Scott, “The Transcendental Ideogram: The Influence of Emerson on Ezra Pound’s Ideogrammic Method”

Omar S. Pound, “Canto LXXV: Clement Janequin & Arrangements of His Text: ‘Canzoni di Li Ucelli'”

Douglas Bruster, “Pound, Frost, and ‘Literary Integrity’ at Harvard”

The Vortex

Yorio Hirano, “Report of the 14th Annual Conference of the Japan Ezra Pound Society”

Shinji Watanabe, “Report on the Fifteenth Annual Meeting and Conference of the Ezra Pound Society of Japan at Rikkyo University, October 30, 1993”

The Reviewer

Timothy Materer (Leon Surette, The Birth of Modernism: Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, and the Occult)

Robert Spoo (A Walking Tour in Southern France: Ezra Pound among the Troubadours, ed. Richard Sieburth)

Tony Tremblay (Gail McDonald, Learning to Be Modern: Pound, Eliot, and the American University)

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Paideuma 23.1

SPRING 1994

Guest-Edited by David Gordon

CONTENTS

Dove Sta Memora

Mary de Rachewiltz, “Dove Sta Memora”

The Vortex

Lorrie Goldensohn, “‘The Speech of Her Stringed Shell’: Mary Barnard’s Sappho“

Angela Christy, “The Mary Barnard Translation of Sappho”

Molly O’Hara Ewing, “The Poetry of Mary Barnard: A Study in Voice and Verse”

The Periplum

Thomas J. Donovan, “Eucharistia”

Dell Hymes, “Myth Making”

The Gallery

Photographs of Mary Barnard

The Explicator

Mary Barnard, “A Communication on Greek Metric. Ezra Pound, and Sappho“

Mary Barnard, “Further Notes on Metric”

David Gordon, “Ezra Pound to Mary Barnard: An ABC of Metrics”

The Documentary

James Laughlin, “From Laughlin’s Catullus through Theocritus to Barnard’s Sappho”

The Bibliographer

Elizabeth J. Bell and Mary Barnard, “Bibliographic Record of Periodical and Book Publication”

The Reviewer

Ted Enslin (Mary Barnard, Time and the White Tigress)

Colin McDowell (Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos, The Celestial Tradition: A Study of Ezra Pound’s The Cantos)

In Memoriam

Omar S. Pound, “Col. John L. Steele”

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Paideuma 22.3

WINTER 1993

CONTENTS

Dove Sta Memora

In Requiescat: Michael Reck

The Periplum

Maria Luisa Ardizzone, “The Genesis and Structure of Pound’s Paradise: Looking at the Vocabulary”

Ming Xie, “Pound, Waley, Lowell, and the Chinese ‘Example’ of Vers Libre“

Michael J. Mages, “He Do Propertius in a Modernist Voice: Pound’s Summary of the Amatory Theme from the Elegies of Sextus Propertius”

The Explicator

Colin McDowell, “‘In the Minor Key of an Epoch’: Georges Herbiet”

Richard Londraville, “Fenollosa and the Legacy of Stone Cottage”

The Documentary

Leslie Hatcher, “Report on the 15th Ezra Pound International Conference, ‘Nature and Myth in Ezra Pound,” Rapallo, Italy, July 13-16, 1993″

The Gallery

Walter Baumann, “Photographs”

The Reviewer

Michael Coyle (Vincent Sherry, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis and Radical Modernism)

Stephen Fender (Donald Davie, Studies in Ezra Pound: Chronicles and Polemic)

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Paideuma 22.1-2

SPRING and FALL 1993

CONTENTS

The Periplum

A. Walton Litz and Omar Pound, “An Unpublished Poem of 1909”

Massimo Bacigalupo, “Pound Studies in Italy, 1991”

James Generoso, “I Reckon You Pass, Mr. Wuddwudd”

Archie Henderson, “Pound, the War, and ‘The Banquet’ (1916)”

Songpin Jin, “Fenollosa and ‘Hsiao Hsüeh’ Tradition”

Guiyou Huang, “Ezra Pound: (Mis)Translation and (Re-)Creation”

Christina DuVernay, “‘And Halo Projects from Incision’: Ezra Pound’s Deification of Henry Gaudier-Brzeska”

Sylvan Esh, “Pound and Jakobson: The Metaphorical Principle in The Cantos“

The Reviewer

Ira B. Nadel (Ezra Pound’s Poetry and Prose, Contributions to Periodicals)

John C. Hirsch (Reed Way Dasenbrock, Imitating the Italians: Wyatt, Spencer, Synge, Pound and Joyce)

Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos (Ezra Pound: Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CXX, tr. Charles Vlavianos)

Jo Ellen Green Kaiser (Scott Hamilton, Ezra Pound and the Symbolist Inheritance)

Philip Furia (Jerome McGann, Toward a Literature of Knowledge)

The Explicator

Omar Pound, “Canto 113: Tweddell, Men against Death and Paul de Kruif”

Donald Gallup, “Ezra Pound’s Experiment for Esquire)

Pamela E. Hurley, “Ezra Pound’s ‘Yeux Glauques'”

Hugh Witemeyer, “Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Dean Howells, and Ezra Pound’s ‘Apostolic Succession'”

Robert C. Merritt, Jr., “‘Witching Music’: Several Examples of How Pound Adopted the Musicological Discoveries of Arnold Dolmetsch”

Jee Young Lee, “Eating”

Patrick McGuiness, “A Note on ‘The Muses’ Diadem'”

Ursula Shioji, “‘Hokku-Like’ Elements in Canto IV”

John Espey, “‘Mihites in Pennsylvania’ (71/418)”

Éva Nagy, “Jónás, Pull down Your Vanity: The Artist’s Commitment as Seen by Ezra Pound and Mihály Babits”

Avril Horner, “The ‘Intelligence at Bay’: Ezra Pound and Geoffrey Hill”

Ethan Lewis, “‘This Hulme Business’ Revisited, or Of Sequence and Simultaneity”

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Paideuma 21.3

WINTER 1992

CONTENTS

The Periplum

William McNaughton, “Kingdoms of the Earp: Carpenter and Criticism”

Walter Baumann, “The German-Speaking World in The Cantos“

Michael Faherty, “The Third Dimension: Ezra Pound and Wassily Kandinsky”

Daniel Tiffany, “The Cryptic Image”

The Explicator

Thomas W. Ford, “Recollections on First Reading an Ezra Pound Letter”

Glenn Willmott, “And Was Ezra Pound Ours? A Commentary on Canto XC”

Teresa Winterhalter, “Eyeless in Siena, or Ezra Pound’s Vision Through History”

The Reviewer

Colin McDowell (The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn 1915-1924, ed. Timothy Materer)

Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos (Akiko Miyake, Ezra Pound and the Mysteries of Love: A Plan for The Cantos)

Reed Way Dasenbrock (Lawrence S. Rainey, Ezra Pound and the Monument of Culture: Text, History, and the Malatesta Cantos)

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Paideuma 21.1-2

SPRING and FALL 1992

CONTENTS

The Periplum

Walter Baumann, “Yeats and Ireland in The Cantos“

Paul Skinner, “Pounding, Hoofing, Kipling: Attitudes to Rudyard Kipling in the Writings of Ezra Pound and Ford Madox Ford”

Tim Dean, “How Long Is the Pound Era?”

Marinelle Ringer, “The Rhythmic Structure of Pound’s Canto IV”

Norman Wacker, “The Subject Repositioned / The Subject Repossessed: Authority and the Ethos of Performance in The Pisan Cantos“

Steven Yao, “‘And With You Especially, There Was Nothing at Cross-Purpose’: Pound’s Treatment of Women in Cathay“

Maria Luisa Ardizzione, “Pound’s Language in Rock-Drill, Two Theses for a Genealogy”

The Explicator

Elizabeth Bruce, “Empedocles’s Golden Age of Aphrodite in Pound’s Later Cantos”

K. Narayana Chandran, “Ezra Pound’s ‘Meitatio’: Two Notes”

Songping Jin, “‘The Coral Face,’ ‘The Tree of the Visages’ and the Cherry Tree”

Sylvan Esh, “‘In a Station’: Provence, London”

Jyan-Lung Lin, “Pound’s ‘In a station of the Metro’ as a Yugen Haiku”

Richard R. O’Keefe, “Impingement: The End of Pound’s Canto LXXX“

David Gordon, “The Golden Caesura (2)”

Documentary

Lawrence S. Rainey, “A Poem Including History [facsimile reprint]”

Ira B. Nadel, “The Cantos of Ezra Pound . . . . . . A Poem Including History: A Checklist of Items on Exhibit at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library 20 October-22 December 1989”

Sebastian D. G. Knowles, “Ezra Pound to Alice Steiner Amdur, 23 January 1937”

Archie Henderson, “Addenda to ‘Pound Centennial Events: A Checklist'”

The Reviewer

Laura Cowan (James Longenbach, Stone Cottage: Pound, Yeats, and Modernism)

Cover: Japanese Tea Garden, Botanical Garden, Denver, Colorado. Photograph by Marie Alpert.

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