Day: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Thursday\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Time<\/strong>: \u00a010.30am-12.30<\/p>\n Date<\/strong>: 8 weeks, 27 April \u2013 8 June 2017 (Mid term break 18 May 2017)<\/p>\n Venue<\/strong>:
\nSt.Peter\u2019s House
\nUniversity Precinct
\nOxford Road
\nManchester \u00a0M13 9GH<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nThis course is now fully subscribed. Apologies for the disappointment.<\/span><\/p>\n Barry Wood<\/p>\n Ezra Pound was and continues to be a controversial and contradictory figure in twentieth century Anglo-American poetry, now probably remembered as much for his pro-Fascist\u00a0 <\/span>politics and often virulent anti-semitism as for his literary achievements.\u00a0 <\/span>But throughout a period from 1908 to 1920 he was a prominent figure in English (mainly London-based) literary life although by no means always\u00a0 <\/span>popular or even well-regarded amongst the literary establishment.\u00a0 <\/span>As GS Fraser put it: \u201cHe stirred things up too much\u201d.\u00a0 <\/span>In these early years he was an active practitioner in and propagandist for literary experiment and innovation.\u00a0 <\/span>He was determined to \u201cMake it new\u201d and he pursued this objective with great vigour in his own work and in his support for and influence on his contemporaries.<\/p>\n The course will focus on Pound\u2019s imagist and Chinese-influenced poetry, his social and literary satires and on a close reading of his major work of this period: \u201cHugh Selwyn Mauberley\u201d; and it will also examine his relationship with and impact on the Imagist group, WB Yeats, and TS Eliot.<\/p>\n Recommended Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n Ezra Pound, \u00a0Personae (Collected Early Poems); or: Copies of poems for detailed discussion will be distributed during the course<\/p>\n
\nSelected Poems, with an introduction by TS Eliot.
\n<\/span>GS Fraser\u2019s Ezra Pound is a good introductory study.
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