The Cantos

The Cantos is a collection of poems begun in 1915 by Ezra Pound . The first poems were published in the magazine Poetry in 1917 ; Over the years, the Cantos became more and more of Pound's main work. The first complete edition from 1970 contains a total of 117 songs.

The early poems were Pound's personal response to poets such as Homer , Ovid , Dante and Rémy de Gourmont , as well as to various politicians and economists, but they also contain memories of youth trips to Europe. The Pisan Cantos (" Pisaner Gesänge", 1948), written by Pound in captivity, won the 1949 Bollingen Prize .

A quote from The Cantos on a plate at the Leibniz Colonnade in Berlin caused controversy in 2019 .

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English

• The Cantos of Ezra Pound 1-117. 5th corrected and revised edition, New Directions, New York 1975.

German

• Pisaner Cantos: LXXIV – LXXXIV . Edited and transmitted by Eva Hesse . Arche Verlag, Hamburg / Zurich 2002, ISBN 978-3-7160-2309-9 .
• The Cantos . Bilingual edition, German translation by Eva Hesse ( Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2013 - Category: Translation ), edited and commented by Heinz Ickstadt and Manfred Pfister . Arche Verlag, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7160-2654-0 .

Web links

• The Cantos Project (English)
• Collected reviews of the German-language complete edition (2012) at perlentaucher.de .
• Tom Peuckert: Let the wind speak . In: Der Tagesspiegel , April 7, 2013.