POUND, Ezra

Pound's innovation was poetic Collage, in which an abundance and variety of both experiential and linguistic materials are pulled together into a poetically integral mosaic—so that, even where striking images are evoked, the effect of their structural principle is unfamiliar, perhaps pointed juxtapositions. The achievement of the final edition of The Cantos (1970), which were begun over fifty years before, is a wealth of reference and language, both historic and contemporary, incorporated into a...