Posthumous Cantos

Drawing on Ezra Pound"€™s notebooks, typescripts and contri-butions to periodicals, Posthumous Cantos is a selection of drafts and sketches that remained unpublished or uncollected in the poet"€™s lifetime. The material spans the entire half-century of Pound"€™s Cantos, 1915 to 1970, and includes newly-recovered passages he wrote in Italian in 1944"€“45, presented here in their original form alongside English translations. Accompanied by detailed introductory and explanatory notes and a full chronology, Posthumous Cantos offers new insight into the making of one of the twentieth century"€™s most important and forbidding literary works, revealing it as an endless process of writing and rewriting, in which the poetry and the life are finally inextricable. This is a crucial part of the Pound canon, here made available for the first time in an English edition.