Reading Swift S Poetry

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Reading Swift's Poetry

Author: Daniel Cook
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2020-08-13
This book explicates Jonathan Swift's poetry, reaffirming its prominence in competing literary traditions.
Contemporary Studies of Swift's Poetry

Author: John Irwin Fischer
language: en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date: 1981
Individually the seventeen essays in this volume reflect the particularity of Swift's verse, while together they suggest the patterns of his thought and attest to his artistic achievement. Written by some of the most noted scholars of Swift, these essays are responses to specific challenges in the poet's work, and represent our current understanding of Swift's canon and its relation to the forms of Augustan poetry.
The Bughouse

A captivating biography of Ezra Pound told via the stories of his visitors at Washington, DC’s St. Elizabeths Hospital. “This story of Pound’s politics and his prejudices takes on fresh significance. . . . Swift is an alert and eloquent guide. . . . I guarantee that The Bughouse will vex you into thinking more deeply about the relation between an artist’s life and work, and perhaps even about the old-fashioned question of moral responsibility.” —NPR's Fresh Air In 1945, the great American poet Ezra Pound was deemed insane. He was due to stand trial for treason for his fascist broadcasts in Italy during the war. Instead, he escaped a possible death sentence and was held at St. Elizabeths Hospital for the insane for more than a decade. While there, his visitors included the stars of modern poetry: T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Charles Olson, and William Carlos Williams, among others. They would sit with Pound on the hospital grounds, bring him news of the outside world, and discuss everything from literary gossip to past escapades. This was perhaps the world’s most unorthodox literary salon: convened by a fascist and held in a lunatic asylum. Those who came often recorded what they saw. Pound was at his most infamous, most hated, and most followed. At St. Elizabeths he was a genius and a madman, a contrarian and a poet, and impossible to ignore. In The Bughouse, Daniel Swift traces Pound and his legacy, walking the halls of St. Elizabeths and meeting modern-day neofascists in Rome. Unlike a traditional biography, The Bughouse sees Pound through the eyes of others at a critical moment both in Pound’s own life and in twentieth-century art and politics. It portrays a fascinating, multifaceted artist, and illuminates the many great poets who gravitated toward this most difficult of men. “A sensitive investigation into the enigmatic, prodigious mind of poet Ezra Pound. . . . [Daniel Swift] draws on memoirs . . . as well as interviews, a close reading of Pound's writings, and medical records to create a multidimensional portrait of a celebrated, controversial literary figure.” —Kirkus Reviews