Date of Award
Summer 1992
Document Type
Dissertation - Restricted
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
English
First Advisor
Bates, Milton
Second Advisor
Duffy, Edward
Third Advisor
Ford, Karen
Abstract
Toward the end of his fruitful, turbulent career, Ezra Pound summarized his literary life this way: "[I]f I have made any contribution to criticism I have done so by introducing the ideogrammic system" (IM 73). In replying to Yvor Winters' charge that his Cantos are obscure, Pound suggested that Winters should familiarize himself with the ideogrammic method before reading his poetry. 2 Clearly Pound regarded the "ideogrammic method" as essential to understanding both his criticism and his poetry...
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