Ezra Pound as Literary Critic

Was the modernist movement in literature facist in its temperament andmasculinist in its sexual politic?<strong>Ezra Pound as Literary Critic</strong> contribut... » 

Was the modernist movement in literature facist in its temperament andmasculinist in its sexual politic?Ezra Pound as Literary Critic contributes to the current debate surroundingthe modernist movement by examining in detail the methods by which Pound cameto dominate the discourse of modernism. As both a major poet and principalpublicist of modernism Pound so successfully dominated the movement that hisversion of it was reproduced by academic critics as an official literaryhistory of the period beginning in 1910 with the publication of Pounds TheSpirit of Romance and culminating in 1922 with the appearance of Ulyssesand The Wasteland. Bringing some of the insights of modern critical theory tobear on a great deal of information about Pounds activities as a literarycritic some of it made available only recently K. K. Ruthven provides aprovocative rereading of a major poet who dominated the discourse of modernism. «