A ZBC of Ezra Pound (book)
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A ZBC of Ezra Pound is a book by Christine Brooke-Rose
published by Faber and Faber
in 1971. It is a study of the work of Ezra Pound
, focusing in particular on The Cantos
.
In Chapter Six, Brooke-Rose gives an explanation of the prosody of Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse
as Pound would have understood it, based on Sievers' Theory of Anglo-Saxon Meter
.
Christine Brooke-Rose
Christine Frances Evelyn Brooke-Rose is a British writer and literary critic, known principally for her later, experimental novels.-Biography:...
published by Faber and Faber
Faber and Faber
Faber and Faber Limited, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the UK, notable in particular for publishing a great deal of poetry and for its former editor T. S. Eliot. Faber has a rich tradition of publishing a wide range of fiction, non fiction, drama, film and music...
in 1971. It is a study of the work of Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry...
, focusing in particular on The Cantos
The Cantos
The Cantos by Ezra Pound is a long, incomplete poem in 120 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...
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In Chapter Six, Brooke-Rose gives an explanation of the prosody of Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse
Alliterative verse
In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal structuring device to unify lines of poetry, as opposed to other devices such as rhyme. The most commonly studied traditions of alliterative verse are those found in the oldest literature of many Germanic...
as Pound would have understood it, based on Sievers' Theory of Anglo-Saxon Meter
Sievers' Theory of Anglo-Saxon Meter
Eduard Sievers developed a theory of the meter of Anglo-Saxon Alliterative verse. This most likely would have been the theory of Anglo-Saxon prosody that Ezra Pound would have been familiar with....
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