About this title: Eliot wrote in his introduction: "I hope that this volume will demonstrate that Pound's literary criticism is the most important contemporary criticism of its kind...perhaps the kind we can least afford to do without...the refreshment, the revitalization and making new' of literature in our time."
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Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: New Directions, New York
Date Published: 1968
ISBN-13:9780811201575ISBN:0811201570
Description: Very Good. 8vo-8"-9" Tall. Third printing trade paperback in VG, clean and unmarked condition. Spine smooth. Wraps lightly toned, several pages curled at edge. xv, 464pp., index. Introduction, edited by T. S. Eliot. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Faber And Faber Ltd, London
Date Published: 1968
Description: Good in None Issued jacket. 464 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy. I have tried only to give a representative choice from Ezra pound's literary criticism over a period of thirty years. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1954
ISBN-13:9780811201575ISBN:0811201570
Description: Good 1954 Hardback 1st Ed. No Jacket. Book BOOKCASE 22-6. read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Faber and Faber Limited, London
Date Published: 1954
Description: Very good+ condition. Octavo (8vo). xvi, 464 pages of text including an index. Hardcover binding with minor shelfwear and rubbing to the extremities. Lacks the dustjacket. Minor pencil notations (small marks) lightly beside some lines of text scattered throughout text. Previous owner's name neatly on front endpaper. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780571057054ISBN:0571057055
Description: Good. A slight tan to the book edge. Minor Shelfware. No Dust Jacket. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New Directions, New York
Date Published: 1954
Description: Near Fine Plus in Very Good jacket. Black cloth binding with silver lettering on spine; red dust jacket is worn at the tips and top and bottom of spine panel, and there are three 3/4" tears. First edition sheets printed in UK by Faber for New Directions with a later dust jacket, ca 1965 (Gallup A67b). read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Date Published: 1968
Description: Good. GOOD SCARCE 1974 IMPRESSION 1ST FABER PAPERBACK, WITH ORIGINAL COVER DESIGN, INTRO BY T S ELIOT. CLASSIC COLLECTION OF LITERARY ESSAYS BY POUND, QUITE ESSENTIAL FOR APPRECIATING HIS MODERNIST INNOVATIONS. SOUND COPY: MINOR SPINE CREASES, SOME COVER RUBBING AND STAINING TO REAR COVER, NATURAL DISCOLORATION TO PAGE EDGES, INNERS UNMARKED. IMMEDIATE 1st Class/Airmail dispatch fromUK FILM/MODERNIST COLLECTION ~~Please browse our Alibris storefront for more related items, combined postage ... read more
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: A New Directions Book, (Norfolk, Connecticut)
Date Published: (1954)
Description: First American edition. Edited with an Introduction by T. S. Eliot. Slightly scuffed front boars and gently bumped head near fine in fine dustwrapper. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New Directions, (New York):
Date Published: (1954).
Description: Edited and with an introduction by T.S. Eliot. First U.S. edition, preceded by the U.K. edition. Very faint stain on front endpaper, few tiny specks of white on the black cloth covers, otherwise near fine in faintly soiled dustwrapper faded at the spine (lettering still bright) with few shallow chips and small closed tears. read more
Edition: First, Twelfth Printing
Binding: Soft Back
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1968
ISBN-13:9780811201575ISBN:0811201570
Description: Fine. No Dust Jacket. 5x8. White covers with black spine and black line drawing of pound on the front. read more
"I have only read the first section of this: "The Art of Poetry," but wish I had come upon it sooner. In particular, the two essays, "The Serious Artist," and "How to Read," are absolutely excellent."
"Pound's thoughts about the nature of reading, the beauty of life, the importance of scholars and artists to the well being of a society make me completely woozy."
"Pound. The bottom line for me is that his poetry is great as an idea, while his prose is great as an experience - that is, actually great. The essays in this book and elsewhere (the letters too) are so entertaining: a cross between Mark Twain, H.L. Mencken, Flaubert, maybe the Goncourt brothers. Pound's acidity is aggravating at times, but this is part of the fun and anyway maybe we need to be aggravated (he always ends up paying us for it anyway). In the end, he continues a tradition of American essay writing that begins with Emerson: peripatetic, condensed attempts to lasso sentences together in an attempt to make a symbol, image, figure, whatever you want to call it."
"Lots of fun. The essay, "How To Read" is one of the very best literary essays ever written by an American poet. Way beyond the ABC's of reading, this essay simply rocks. Worth the whole book (though there is a lot of good stuff in this book). Try it."
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