Collected Early Poems (1976)
A98
Editions
a. First edition
COLLECTED EARLY | POEMS OF | EZRA | POUND | Edited by Michael John King, | with an introduction by Louis L. Martz
xxii, 330 pp., incl. front. (port.), illus. (facsims.) 23.4 x 16.2 cm. Buff linen cloth boards stamped in blue down the spine; end-papers; white dust-jacket printed in blue (with, in the earliest copies, an error “eary” for “early” on the spine).
Published 9 November 1976 at $22.50; 2570 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: ... Manufactured in the United States of America. First published clothbound in 1976 ... New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation, 333 Sixth Avenue, New York 10014 “Our aim has been to collect here all the poems that Pound published, whether in book form, in periodicals, or in miscellanies, through the year 1912. ... The poems in his six volumes of 1908, 1909, 1911, and 1912 have here been reprinted, including translations that appeared in these volumes; we have otherwise excluded translations from this book. ... We have ... printed the poems only once, normally following the text of their first appearance in book form. ... A special situation exists with regard to the selections from Canzoni which were published seven months earlier ... in Provença (Boston). Here we have chosen to follow the texts given in the complete volume Canzoni... “To these published poems we have added twenty-three hitherto unpublished 117 poems from the San Trovaso Notebook . . . [and] a selection of eleven [hitherto unpublished] poems from ... miscellaneous manuscripts ... We have also added six poems, five of them hitherto unpublished, derived from the proof sheets of Pound’s volume Canzoni in the Humanities Research Center of the University of Texas ... [and] several passages from the original typescript of ‘Hilda’s Book, the collection of early poems which Pound presented to Hilda Doolittle, probably in 1907. Finally, we have added in an appendix a small group of miscellaneous published verse dating from the years 1913-1917, which has not hitherto been collected ...” (Introduction to “Notes,” signed M. K[ing]. and L. L. M[artz]., p. 289-90.) Variant words and stanzas of poems and additional comments by Pound are incorporated in the “Notes,” pp. 293-324.
Contents: A LUME SPENTO (1908)—A QUINZAINE FOR THIS YULE (1908)— PERSONAE (1909)—EXULTATIONS (1909)—CANZONI (1911)-—RIPOSTES (1912) —UNCOLLECTED MISCELLANEOUS POEMS (1902-1912): Ezra on the Strike—A Dawn Song—To the Raphaelite Latinists—In epitaphium—Thersites: on the Surviving Zeus—The Fault of It—For a Beery Voice—L’Invitation—Epilogue— POEMS WITHDRAWN FROM CANZONI: Leviora, I: Against Form; II: Hic jacet; IV: To my very dear friend, remonstrating for his essay upon “Mighty mouths”—To Hulme (T. E.) and Fitzgerald (A Certain)—Redondillas, or Something of That Sort—THE ALCHEMIST (TWO VERSIONS) (1912) POEMS FROM THE SAN TROVASO NOTEBOOK: San Vio. June—Roundel for Arms—Roundel. After Joachim du Bellay—Sonnet of the August Calm— To Ysolt. For Pardon—For Ysolt. The Triad of Dawn—Piazza San Marco— Lotus-bloom—For a Play. (Maeterlinck)—The Rune—Narcotic Alcohol— Blazed—For the Triumph of the Arts—Alma Sol Veneziae—Fragment to W[illiam]. Carlos]. W[illiams].’s Romance—(Fragmenti)—(In That Country)—Autumnus. To Dowson (Antistave)—Fratello mio, Zephyrus [formerly “The Banners” |For E. MCC[artney]. The Rejected Stanza—Ballad of Wine Skins—I Wait—(Shalott)—Battle Dawn—For Italico Brass—Envoi. A mon bien aimé—(Additional Poems in the San Trovaso Notebook:) (“She is a thing too frail to know | our life”? “Thoughts moving | in her eyes,” “I have felt the lithe wind | blowing”)—Statement of Being —Das Babenzorn—PORMS FROM MISCELLANEOUS MANUSCRIPTS: Swinburne: A Critiquae—To E. B. B[rowning].— The Summons—Ballad of the Sun’s Hunting —Quia amore langueo—Capilupus Sends Greeting to Grotus—The Hills Whence—From Chebar—“Chommoda”—“It Is a Shame (with Apologies to the Modern Celtic School)”—The Logical Conclusion—APPPENDIX: UNCOLLECTED MISCELLANEOUS POEMS (1913-1917): Pax Saturni—Xenia, I: The Street in Soho; II “The cool fingers of science delight me”—The Choice—Xenia, IV “Come let us play with our own toys”; V “She had a pig-shaped face, with beautiful coloring” — Legend of the Chippewa Spring and Minnehaha, the Indian Maiden—Homage to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt—Pastoral—Gnomic Verses—Our Respectful Homages to M. Laurent Tailhade—Et faim sallir les loups des boys—Love-song to Eunoé—Another Man’s Wife—Poem: Abbreviated from the Conversation of Mr. T. E. H[ulme]—Reflection—To a City Sending Him Advertisements—Nnores
Note: The illustration on page [319] reproduces the original manuscript of “Roundel. After Joachim du Bellay” from the “San Trovaso” notebook.
b. English issue ([1977])
COLLECTED EARLY | POEMS OF | EZRA | POUND | Edited by Michael John King, | with an introduction by Louis L. Martz | FABER AND FABER * LONDON
xxii, 330 pp., incl. front. (port.), illus. (facsims.) 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Red cloth boards lettered in gold on spine; end-papers. White dust-jacket printed in red and black.
Published 4 April 1977 at £12.00; 2000 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: . . . Printed in the United States of America First Published in England in 1977... Contents as in A97a.
Content is now editable.