Reading the Cantos (Routledge Revivals)

<p>First published in 1967 this is a study which tackles the central problem of meaning within Ezra Pound's <em>The Cantos. </em>It deals with the question of important critical issues as well as of interpretation and understanding. Students of modern poetry will derive great benefit from this vigorous and lucid analysis of Pound's masterpiece. Noel Stock's finding is radical: that <em>The Cantos </em>is not a really a poem at all but rather notes towards a poem. It is a collection of fragments of varying quality - some of extraordinary power and beauty - but in no sense formed into a work of art.</p>