Pound’s early collection speaks through borrowed voices: an old councillor turned tree-dweller in Malvern’s ash wood, the exiled singer Cino, a troubadour’s lady, François Villon’s gallows companions. Archaic diction, ballads, villonauds and sonnets sit together as the young American poet tries on the personae of the past.
Essential for anyone tracing how modernism began, the work of a poet still in London’s Edwardian twilight but already restless. Download the free EPUB.