First edition, first impression

PROVENÇA | POEMS | SELECTED FROM PERSONAE, EXULTATIONS, AND | CANZONIERE | OF | EZRA POUND | | BOSTON | SMALL, MAYNARD AND COMPANY | PUBLISHERS

1 blank leaf, vi, 84 pp., 2 blank leaves. 17.7 X 11.5 cm. Tan paper boards stamped in dark brown on front cover and up the spine (with title measuring 9 cm.); end-papers; edges untrimmed. Tan dust-jacket printed in dark brown and green (with price “$1.00 net; postage, 8 cents” on back). Copies measure 1.5 cm. across the top (including covers). Published 22 November 1910 at $1.00; probably 200 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: ... The University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A. “Provença is the first American Edition of his work, and contains the best of the two volumes, Personae and Exultations ... with new poems which are to be issued in England separately under the title of Canzoniere.” (Dust-acket) The title of the projected book became Canzoni when it was published in 1911—A2a. Il Dedications, page : To Mary Moore; page [35]: To Carlos Tracy Chester, page [61]: To Olivia and Dorothy Shakespear

Contents: PERSONAE: La Fraisne—Cino—Na Audiart—Villonaud for This Yule— A Villonaud: Ballad of the Gibbet-—Mesmerism—Famam librosque cano—In tempore senectutis—Camaraderie—For Efugene]. McC[artney]—Ballad for Gloom—At the Heart 0? Me—The Tree—An Idyl for Glaucus—Marvoil—In the Old Age of the Soul—Revolt against the Crepuscular Spirit in Modern Poetry—And Thus in Nineveh—The White Stag—Piccadilly—exutrations: Night Litany—Sestina: Altaforte—Ballad of the Goodly Fere—Portrait, from “La mére inconnue”—The Eyes—Nils Lykke—“Fair Helena” by Rackham— Greek Epigram—Histrion—Paracelsus in excelsis—A Song of the Virgin Mother—Song (“Love thou thy dream”)—Planh for the Young English King— Alba innominata—Laudantes [formerly “Laudantes decem pulchritudinis Jo- hannae Templi”}Planh. It Is of the White Thoughts That He Saw in the Forest—cANZONIERE, STUDIES IN FORM: Octave—Sonnet in Tenzone—Sonnet (If on the tally-board of wasted days”)—Canzon: The Yearly Slain (Written in reply to Manning’s “Koré” [With “Koré” by Frederic Manning])—Canzon: The Spear—Canzon, To Be Sung beneath a Window—Canzon: Of Incense— Canzone: Of Angels—Sonnet: Chi @ questa?—Of Grace [“Ballata, Fragment,” I]}—Canzon: The Vision—To Our Lady of Vicarious Atonement (Ballata)— Epilogue: To Guido Cavalcanti—Notes [to the poems]

b. Second impression ([1917?]):

Title-page, collation, and size as in first impression. Tan paper boards stamped in green on front cover and up the spine (with title measuring 8-9 cm.); endpapers; edges untrimmed. Tan dust-jacket printed in green (with price “$1.00 net” on back). Copies measure 1.4 cm. across the top (including covers). Published probably early in 1917 (a letter from the publishers to John Quinn, 4 Apr. 1917 (NYPL), states that “we have just reprinted PROVENGA . . .””); number of copies unknown. Not only is the paper in these copies thinner, but there are several distinct signs of type-wear (e.g. “Laudante” and “Laudante.” for “Laudantes” in the section title on pages 53 and 55 respectively). Besides the difference indicated above in size of stamping on the spine there are slight variations in some of the letters. Nove: All the poems in Provenga were reprinted in Collected Early Poems ([1976])— Ag8.