Ezra Pound's Green World

Walter Baumann, a native of Switzerland, is a retired Senior Lecturer of the University of Ulster, where he taught German literature and language. He obtained his Dr. phil. degree from the University of Zurich. His dissertation was published by Francke Verlag in Bern in 1967 and the University of Miami Press 1970 entitled The Rose in the Steel Dust: An Examination of the Cantos of Ezra Pound. He has been a student of Ezra Pound for 60 years. From 1976 to the present he has attended and helped to organize all but two Pound conferences. His collected Pound essays were published by the National Poetry Foundation in Orono, Maine, in 2000 under the title Roses from the Steel Dust. With William Pratt he edited Ezra Pound and London: New Perspectives (AMS Press, New York, 2015) and Ezra Pound and Modernism: The Irish Factor (forthcoming from EER). â â Caterina Ricciardi is professor of American Literature at the University Roma Tre. She has extensively written on American Modernism (Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Djuna Barnes, Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, W.C. Williams). She is the author of books on Ezra Pound: EIKONEΣ. Ezra Pound e il Rinascimento (1991), Ezra Pound. Ghiande di Luce (2006), and Ezra Pound and Roma: Roma/Amor (2009). She contributed to Ezra Pound in Context (2010), edited by Ira B. Nadel, and co-edited with Willian Pratt Roma/Amor. Ezra Pound, Rome, and Love (2013). A book on T. S. Eliot's The Hollow Men is forthcoming.

Walter, Baumann, The Green World; Stoddard Martin, Ezra Pound and Trees; William Pratt, Sacred Landscape: Lago di Garda in the Work of Ezra Pound and D. H. Lawrence; John Gery, The Grasshopper and the Ant: Pound's Versions of Pastoral. John Gery, The Three Pillars;Gerd Schmid, What Are Temples for: Spontaneity, Simultaneity and Fortuna in Canto 97; Massimo Bacigalupo, "Sumerian" Hieroglyphs in Cantos 94, 97 and 100. Myth, Beauty and a Guru; Stephen Romer, The Green World in the Autobiographical Myth of The Cantos; Mick Sheldon, "The fine thing held in the mind": Painterliness Emanating in Pound Early Poems and Cantos; Jo Brantley Berryman, Allen Upward's Influence on Ezra Pound's Green World; Rosella Mamoli Zorzi, Metaphor and Metamorphosis; Pound's Green World: Mimesis, Metaphor, and Magic; Peter Liebregts, The Myth of Daphne in Pound's Early Poetry; Charles Altieri, "Damned to you Midas, Midas lacking a Pan": Ezra Pound and the Use of Pan, Theory and The Cantos; Guiliana Ferreccio, Taking Fascist Ontology Seriously: Why "the Green World" Could Not Suffice for the Early Cantos; Jonathan Pollock, Pound's Iconic Acts: Rituals and Natural Language in the Early-Middle Cantos; Sean Mark, The Poetics of Cut and Flow in The Cantos of Ezra Pound. Ezra Pound on TV, in Schools and in his Descendents; Andy Trevithan, "Two larks in contrappunto / at sunset": Pound and Pasolini After the Fall; Viorica Patea, Teaching Pound in a Red State Patrizia de Rachewiltz's My Taishan: Confessions in the Pound Tradition.