The Cantos is a long modernist poem by Ezra Pound, written in 109 canonical sections in addition to a number of drafts and fragments added as a supplement at the request of the poem's American …

The Cantos, collection of poems by Ezra Pound, who began writing these more or less philosophical reveries in 1915. The first were published in Poetry magazine in 1917; through the decades, the …

Ezra Pound referred to The Cantos as, variously, ‘an epic including history’ and, with more muted self-praise, a ‘ragbag’. Yet although it is undeniably a ragbag, there are a number of key themes running …

The Cantos, a sprawling modernist poem by Ezra Pound, defies conventional narrative structure. It comprises approximately 120 individual poems, each termed a "canto."

The meaning of CANTO is one of the major divisions of a long poem. How to use canto in a sentence.

Dante's Inferno: The Cantos Canto I. Prologue. The Dark Wood (La Selva Oscura). The three Beasts: leopard, lion, wolf. Dante meets Virgil. Canto II. Discouragement. "I am not Aeneas, I am not Paul." …

The word “canto” means “song” in Italian, but the first examples of cantos date back to the time of Homer when epics were recited orally. Cantos are used for epic poems such as Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ …

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Pound wrote The Cantos over several decades, with the first canto published in 1917 and later cantos being added until his death in 1972. The Cantos is known for its complex structure and allusions, …

In the last canto the hero reproaches his friends for abandoning him in the day of danger. It consists of seven cantos, and contains twenty-five thousand verses. The day of poets is gone, otherwise she …