Canto poem

Canto I - And then went down to the ship, Great bulk, huge mass, thesaurus; Ecbatan, the block ticks and fades out; The bride awaiting the god's touch; Ecbatan, City of patterned streets; again the vision: Down in the viae stradae, toga'd the crowd, and...
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Inferno, Canto XXXIV - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. ... Detail of Domenica di Michelino's Dante and His Poem The...
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd From wandering on a foreign strand! If such there breathe, go, mark...
"An Interpolation taken from the Third Canto of a Long Poem" - April 1918. The Cantos Project. Three Cantos. In Quia Pauper Amavi. London: The Ovid Press, 1919. [Republication of the version in Lustra.] Free online. Canto IV. The Fourth Canto....
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In 1949, while imprisoned for treason, Ezra Pound won the prestigious Bollingen Prize for Poetry for The Pisan Cantos, a sequence he began while in jail. He died, following a decade of silence, in 1972. The Cantos - "Say I take your whole bag of...
C. F. Terrell's Companion on googlebooks. The Cantos at Amazon. The Cantos Project by Roxana Preda is licensed under a. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. The Cantos Project is dedicated to the research of Ezra...
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Ezra Pound referred to The Cantos as, variously, 'an epic including history' and, with more muted self-praise, a 'ragbag'. Yet although it is undeniably a ragbag, there are a number of key themes running through The Cantos. Pound has...
Inferno, Canto I. Dante Alighieri. Midway upon the journey of our life. I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost. Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say. What was this forest savage, rough, and stern, Which in the...
The Cantos, collection of poems by Ezra Pound, who began writing these more or less philosophical reveries in 1915. The first were published in Poetry magazine in 1917; through the decades, the writing of cantos gradually became Pound's major...
The following is a list of the top 100 most famous poems of all time in the English language. There's always room for debate when creating a "top 100" list, and let's face it, fame is a pretty fickle thing. It changes over time. But...
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