Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources: The Cantos and the Primal Matter of Troy

Using The Cantos as a lens to understand modernism’s ambition to revolutionize literature through mythical and scientific methods, this book looks at how Homer’s Odyssey plays a unique methodological and structural role in The Cantos and, more broadly, recalibrates the reader’s sense of Pound’s deployment of classical sources in them.
Pound adapts techniques from philology and comparative anthropology in order to excavate the primordial lyric roots of epic poetry.