CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments vii
4. List of Abbreviations xiii
5. Introduction: Ezra Pound and the Symbolist Inheritance 1
6. Chapter One. Pound’s Gradus ad Parnassum 30
7. Chapter Two. Pound’s Gradus a Parnasso: Misanthropy, Pound, and Some French Satire 58
8. Chapter Three. The Citadel of the Intelligent: Pound’s Laforgue 91
9. Chapter Four. The Wobbling Pivot: Surface and Depth in the Early Cantos 131
10. Chapter Five. L’Eternelle Ritournelle in the Late Cantos 166
11. Conclusion: Robert Duncan’s Revisionary Ratios: Rewriting The Spirit of Romance 194
12. Notes 211
13. Index 255