A Serious Character by Humphrey Carpenter
The Life of Ezra Pound
An expansive, deeply researched biography of Ezra Pound that traces his rise as a pioneering modernist poet and influential mentor, while confronting the darker arc of his extremist politics, wartime broadcasts, and aftermath. Drawing on letters, diaries, and interviews, it follows his artistic innovations, complex relationships, and the tensions between visionary poetics and destructive ideology from early years in America and Europe through the Pisan Cantos, incarceration, and confinement at St. Elizabeths. The result is a nuanced, unflinching portrait of a brilliant yet troubling figure whose life and work shaped—and scarred—twentieth-century literature.
- Published
- 1988
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Long
- Pages
- 600-700
- Original Language
- English
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