"The Cantos The Cantos by Ezra Pound is a long, incomplete poem in 116 sections, each of which is a ""canto"". Most of it was written between 1915 and 1962, although much of the early work was abandoned and the early cantos, as finally published, date from 1922 onwards. It is a book-length work, widely considered to be an intense and challenging read. ""The Cantos"" is generally considered one of the most significant works of modernist poetry in the 20th century. As in Pound's prose writing, the themes of economics, governance and culture are integral to the work's content. The"
"after the death of his daughter. In 1913 Canton began a new religious poem ""The Mask of Veronica"", but it was unfinished at his death. What year was it that blew<br> The Aryan's wicker-work canoe<br> Which brought the shell to English land?<br> What prehistoric man or woman's hand,<br> With what intent, consigned it to this grave —<br> The barrow set in sound of the Ancient World's last wave? (""An Indian Cowrie found in a Cornish barrow at Land's End"") William Canton William Canton (27 October 1845 – 2 May 1926) was a British poet, journalist and writer, now best known"
"frequent mention of drunken ramblings related to the novel by Capote but was never able to secure any serious plot details. When he did discuss the contents of one of the chapters to a privileged Brigid Berlin, Warhol was incensed that she did not tape the discussion. Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel Answered Prayers is an unfinished novel by American author Truman Capote, published posthumously in 1986 in England and 1987 in the United States. The title of the book refers to a quote by Saint Teresa of Ávila that Capote chose as an epigraph: ""More tears are shed over"
"was neither clearly conceived as a unified work nor ever completed. It consists of poems in free verse, full of complex surrealist imagery that is almost impenetrable. They convey an atmosphere of helplessness and total desolation. ""Yo era un tonto y lo que he visto me ha hecho dos tontos"" (1929) is Alberti’s homage to the American silent comedians whose films he admired so greatly – Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Harry Langdon etc. Morris has been able to track down some of the specific scenes that inspired these poems but the poems themselves are still in the dense style that"
"Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel Answered Prayers is an unfinished novel by American author Truman Capote, published posthumously in 1986 in England and 1987 in the United States. The title of the book refers to a quote by Saint Teresa of Ávila that Capote chose as an epigraph: ""More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones"". According to Joseph M. Fox's editor's note to the 1987 edition, Capote signed the initial contract for the novel—envisioned as a contemporary American analog to Marcel Proust's ""In Search of Lost Time""—on January 5, 1966 with Random House. This agreement provided a"
"William Canton William Canton (27 October 1845 – 2 May 1926) was a British poet, journalist and writer, now best known for his contributions to children's literature. These include his series of three books, beginning with ""The Invisible Playmate"", written for his daughter Winifred Vida (1891-1901). In his lifetime he was known for his use of recent archeological evidence of prehistory in his poetry. He was born at Chusan in China to a Catholic family of civil servants. His childhood was spent mostly in Jamaica. He studied for the priesthood at Douai School and later in Paris, but eventually abandoned"
"been unable to ""make"" his materials cohere, while they insist that the world itself still does cohere. Pound and T. S. Eliot had previously approached the subject of fragmentation of human experience: while Eliot was writing, and Pound editing, ""The Waste Land"", Pound had said that he looked upon experience as similar to a series of iron filings on a mirror. Each filing is disconnected, but they are drawn into the shape of a rose by the presence of a magnet. ""The Cantos"" takes a position between the mythic unity of Eliot's poem and Joyce's flow of consciousness and attempting"
"Award, and World Fantasy Award. Dan Simmons Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) is an American science fiction and horror writer. He is the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles, among other works which span the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel. A typical example of Simmons' intermingling of genres is ""Song of Kali"" (1985), winner of the World Fantasy Award. He also writes mysteries and thrillers, some of which feature the continuing character Joe Kurtz. Born in Peoria, Illinois, Simmons received a B.A. in English from Wabash College in 1970 and,"
"E. E. Cummings Edward Estlin ""E. E."" Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), often styled as e e cummings, as he is attributed in many of his published works, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays, and several essays. Cummings is associated with modernist free-form poetry. Much of his work has original syntax and uses lower case spellings for poetic expression. His use of lower case extended to rendering even the personal pronoun ""I"" as ""i"", as in the phrase ""i shall go"". Cummings was politically"
"in one Canto may be continued in another and may never be completed at all; and as for a theme to be realized, they seem to have only, like Mauberley, the general sense of continuity — not unity — which may arise in the mind when read seriatim. ""The Cantos"" are what Mr Pound himself called them in a passage now excised from the canon, a rag-bag. The issue of incoherence of the work is reflected by the equivocal note sounded in the final two more-or-less completed cantos; according to William Cookson, the final two cantos show that Pound has"
"the line ""To be men not destroyers."" This stood as the close of ""The Cantos"" until later editions appended a brief dedicatory fragment addressed to Olga Rudge. Despite all the controversy surrounding both poem and poet, ""The Cantos"" has been influential in the development of English-language long poems since the appearance of the early sections in the 1920s. Amongst poets of Pound's own generation, both H.D. and William Carlos Williams wrote long poems that show this influence. Almost all of H.D.'s poetry from 1940 onwards takes the form of long sequences, and her ""Helen in Egypt"", written during the 1950s,"
"about it, ""These works include everything but the kitchen sink, and then add the kitchen sink"". In the 1960s William O'Connor described ""The Cantos"" as filled with ""cryptic and gnomic utterances, dirty jokes, obscenities of various sorts"". Allen Tate believes the poem is not about anything and is without beginning, middle or end. He argues that Pound was incapable of sustained thought and ""at the mercy of random flights of 'angelic insight,' an Icarian self-indulgence of prejudice which is not checked by a total view to which it could be subordinated"". This perceived lack of logical consistency or form is"
"father, Francis H. Saltus, edited a four-volume edition of his poetical works after his death. Saltus left behind a good deal of unpublished material, including ""five thousand lyrics for posthumous publication"" and several musical biographies, including a life of Gaetano Donizetti which was never published. Francis Saltus Saltus Francis Saltus Saltus (November 23, 1849 – June 24, 1889) was an American poet. Born in 1849 in New York City to Francis Henry Saltus and his first wife, Julia Augustus Hubbard, he was the elder half-brother of once popular but now relatively obscure novelist Edgar Saltus. He was educated at Columbia"
"Louis Danto Louis Harry Danto (May 2, 1929 - July 23, 2010) was a lyric tenor and cantor. He was acclaimed for his cantorial music, concert appearances and recordings of Italian, Russian, and French opera repertoire. Danto performed throughout North America, Europe and Israel, and recorded 24 solo albums. Danto was recognized for the ""rare beauty and purity of his voice, its mastery, power and control, and for his breathtaking emotional expressivity."" After a performance at Carnegie Hall, Alan Rich of the ""New York Times"" wrote, ""a voice of great beauty, clear and true — breathtaking, radiant, as though from"
"John made no bones."" "" John Thomas Idlet John Thomas Idlet (John Thomas) (December 31, 1930 – March 29, 2002) was an American Beat poet who wrote sporadically and had an aversion to publishing his work. Charles Bukowski called him ""the best unread poet in America."" John Thomas Idlet was born in Baltimore in 1930, the son of a teacher and World War I veteran who claimed to have invented the ""double header"" ice-cream cone. His father later committed suicide. Thomas attended Loyola College and described being ""poisoned by Thomas Wolfe at an early age"". After school, he considered entering"
"of a character which should place it in the hands of youth, as well to instruct as to interest and amuse"". Other works published posthumously: Emma Catherine Embury Emma Catherine Embury (pen name, Ianthe; February 25, 1806 – February 10, 1863) was an American author and poet. Under the pseudonym of ""Ianthe,"" she contributed to the periodicals of the day, and may be considered among the pioneers of female literature in the United States. Her many poems and tales were afterwards collected and published in book form. Among these volumes are ""The Blind Girl and Other Tales"", ""Glimpses of Home"
"Hyperion Cantos The Hyperion Cantos is a series of science fiction novels by Dan Simmons. The title was originally used for the collection of the first pair of books in the series, ""Hyperion"" and ""The Fall of Hyperion"", and later came to refer to the overall storyline, including ""Endymion"", ""The Rise of Endymion"", and a number of short stories. More narrowly, inside the fictional storyline, after the first volume, the Hyperion Cantos is an epic poem written by the character Martin Silenus covering in verse form the events of the first book. Of the four novels, ""Hyperion"" received the Hugo"
"Charles Bukowski Henry Charles Bukowski (born Heinrich Karl Bukowski; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-born American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambiance of his home city of Los Angeles. His work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over 60 books. The FBI kept a file on him as a result of his column, ""Notes of a Dirty"
"I shout, I tremble, and it doesn’t want to get out. I call it by name and it doesn’t want to get out. Later down the street it stands before me.</poem> Charles Guenther Charles Guenther (April 29, 1920 – July 24, 2008) was an American poet, critic and translator. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri. His book, ""Phrase/Paraphrase"", was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Guenther translated thousands of poems into English from languages such as French, Italian, Spanish, Eskimo, Greek, German and Hungarian. He corresponded with scores of authors, including Ezra Pound, Kirkwood, Mo. native Marianne Moore,"
"John Thomas Idlet John Thomas Idlet (John Thomas) (December 31, 1930 – March 29, 2002) was an American Beat poet who wrote sporadically and had an aversion to publishing his work. Charles Bukowski called him ""the best unread poet in America."" John Thomas Idlet was born in Baltimore in 1930, the son of a teacher and World War I veteran who claimed to have invented the ""double header"" ice-cream cone. His father later committed suicide. Thomas attended Loyola College and described being ""poisoned by Thomas Wolfe at an early age"". After school, he considered entering the priesthood, but instead served"
"and death and despair / And to think that what has been shall be, / flowing, ever unstill."" Dorothy had usually ignored his affairs, but she used her legal power over his royalties to make sure Spann was seen off, sent back to the United States. By December 1959, Pound was mired in depression. He saw his work as worthless and ""The Cantos"" botched. In a 1960 interview given in Rome to Donald Hall for ""Paris Review"", he said: ""You—find me—in fragments."" Hall wrote that he seemed in an ""abject despair, accidie, meaninglessness, abulia, waste"". He paced up and down"
"engravings by Equinox Press co-founder Lewis F. White. The original woodblocks are in the Lynd Ward Collection in the Joseph Mark Lauinger Memorial Library at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Song Without Words Song Without Words: A Book of Engravings on Wood is a wordless novel of 1936 by American artist Lynd Ward (1905–1985). Executed in twenty-one wood engravings, it was the fifth and shortest of the six wordless novels Ward completed, produced while working on the last and longest, ""Vertigo"" (1937). The story concerns the anxiety an expectant mother feels over bringing a child into a world under the"
"F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American fiction writer, whose works helped to illustrate the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age. While he achieved popular success, fame, and fortune in his lifetime, he did not receive much critical acclaim until after his death. Perhaps the most notable member of the ""Lost Generation"" of the 1920s, Fitzgerald is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. He finished four novels: ""This Side of Paradise"", ""The Beautiful and Damned"", ""The Great Gatsby"", and ""Tender Is"
"Maya Angelou Maya Angelou (; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, ""I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"" (1969), tells of her life up to"
"Caroline Atherton Mason Caroline Atherton Briggs Mason (July 27, 1823 – June 13, 1890) was an American poet whose works include ""Do They Miss Me At Home?"" and ""The King's Quest"". Many of her poems became popular hymns in the Unitarian church. Mason was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, the daughter of physician Dr. Calvin Briggs and Rebecca Briggs. She was educated at Bradford Academy in Bradford, Massachusetts, and began writing when quite young. In 1852, her family moved to Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Her first poems were published in the ""Salem Register"" under the name ""Caro"". Mason was also published in ""The"
"Song Without Words Song Without Words: A Book of Engravings on Wood is a wordless novel of 1936 by American artist Lynd Ward (1905–1985). Executed in twenty-one wood engravings, it was the fifth and shortest of the six wordless novels Ward completed, produced while working on the last and longest, ""Vertigo"" (1937). The story concerns the anxiety an expectant mother feels over bringing a child into a world under the threat of fascism—anxieties Ward and writer May McNeer were then feeling over McNeer's pregnancy with the couple's second child. A woman conceives a child and suffers anguish over whether to"
"written much of the work at the time of his death, and the ""Canterbury Tales"" are considered to be a seminal work despite the unfinished status. English poet Edmund Spenser originally intended ""The Faerie Queene"" to consist of 12 books; even at its unfinished state—six books were published before Spenser's death—it is the longest epic poem in the English language. Honoré de Balzac, the French novelist, completed nearly 100 pieces for his novel sequence ""La Comédie humaine"", but a planned 48 more were never finished. Notes and plot outlines left behind by an author may allow a successor to complete"
"Cantos"", she says, is to compare and measure among historical periods and cultures and against ""a Poundian standard"" of modernism. Pound layered ideas, cultures and historical periods, writing in as many as 15 different languages, using modern vernacular, Classical languages and Chinese ideograms. Ira Nadel says ""The Cantos"" is an epic, that is ""a poem including history"", and that the ""historical figures lend referentiality to the text"". It functions as a contemporary memoir, in which ""personal history [and] lyrical retrospection mingle""—most clearly represented in the ""Pisan Cantos"". Michael Ingham sees in ""The Cantos"" an American tradition of experimental literature, writing"
"(mirroring Pound's ""Cantos"") that Wand had begun in 1956. The unfinished work was meant to feature Wand's ""fabulous ancestors,"" including his grandfather Wang Fenggao, one of the last mandarin civil servants and founder of Guanghua University in Shanghai, with ""comments on sex, marriage, and prostitution, and references to Eugenics."" In one canto, Wand describes his grandfather, the protagonist, and his sexual prowess and diverse progeny: In Shanghai / by the Yangtze River / Where I watched / the ships / Coming in going out / of the harbor / And the tiny sampans / tremulous on the wave, / I"
"before his death. The moon wanes, leaving nature in total darkness, just as youth passes away leaving life dark and derelict. The poet seems to presage the imminence of his own death. In 1845, Ranieri published the definitive edition of the ""Canti"" according to the will of the author. Wilhelm Killmayer set three of the ""Canti"" to music for baritone and orchestra in ""Tre Canti di Leopardi"" in 1965. Canti (poetry collection) Canti is a collection of poems by Giacomo Leopardi written in 1835. The ""Canti"" is generally considered one of the most significant works of Italian poetry. ""All'Italia"" and"
"Alajos Kannás Alajos Mihály Kannás (July 21, 1926, Kiskunhalas, Hungary – May 25, 1999, Los Angeles, United States) was a Hungarian-American psychologist, writer and poet. He graduated from high school in Kiskunhalas in 1944. He actively participated with the youth, and began writing poetry. In his class in 1935 he received a good reward for his behavior and diligence. He studied at Peter Pazmany University in Budapest from 1945 to 1948 in literature and aesthetic. He wrote his doctoral thesis at the University of Vienna in 1960, after defending his psychology studies. In 1948, he left Austria, and in 1951,"
"on the lyrics. Heyward did not get much credit for that work. In his introduction to the section on DuBose Heyward in ""Invisible Giants: Fifty Americans Who Shaped the Nation But Missed the History Books"" (2003), Stephen Sondheim wrote: DuBose Heyward has gone largely unrecognized as the author of the finest set of lyrics in the history of the American musical theater - namely, those of 'Porgy and Bess'. There are two reasons for this, and they are connected. First, he was primarily a poet and novelist, and his only song lyrics were those that he wrote for Porgy. Second,"
"Eleanor Ross Taylor Eleanor Ross Taylor (June 30, 1920 – December 30, 2011) was an American poet who published six collections of verse from 1960 to 2009. Her work received little recognition until 1998, but thereafter received several major poetry prizes. Describing her most recent poetry collection, Kevin Prufer writes, ""I cannot imagine the serious reader — poet or not — who could leave ""Captive Voices"" unmoved by the work of this supremely gifted poet who skips so nimbly around our sadnesses and fears, never directly addressing them, suggesting, instead, their complex resistance to summary."" Eleanor Ross was born in"