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The first truly comprehensive biography of the controversial poet. The compassionate narrative does not flinch before the poet's eccentric personality and later involvement with Fascist ideology, and brings absorbing new detail to his years of incarceration for treason. Exhaustively researched. Carpenter also provides a bibliography of biographical references and notes on sources. Highly recommended. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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出版社周刊评论
Here in massive, and for the average reader perhaps excessive, detail is a comprehensive biography of a man variously regarded , often by the same critic, as crackpot, ass and major poet with an incomparable ear for language. Carpenter, biographer also of Tolkien and Auden, does a superb job of bringing us what might be called the whole Pound: his generosity and blindness, his failures and achievements as poet and critic, his often strained friendships with the likes of Eliot, Hemingway and William Carlos Williams, his early impact on literary London. Also examined are the poet's pro-Fascist and virulently anti-Semitic World War II broadcasts from Italy, which earned him confinement in a Washington mental institution, and the final, sad Italian years. Carpenter's approach is fair, his prose cool, crisp and lively, and his narrative laced with shrewd comment on Pound's work, in particular the Cantos, which Pound finally deemed a ``botch''a judgment that most readers of this book will probably not share. Photos. (Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus评论
A monumental (900 pp. +) biography of Pound that--by dint of its author's astonishingly thorough research, equally impressive interpretive powers, and sprightly prose style--rivets from start to finish. Carpenter (Tolkien: A Biography, Secret Gardens, W. H. Auden) has here produced a work that places him firmly among the three or four finest biographers working today. Maintaining objectivity must have been the most difficult of the tasks Carpenter faced when recounting his subject's controversial life story. Throughout his life, Pound inspired both immense affection and intense loathing. Wisely, Carpenter eschews both iconoclasm and hagiography in tracing Pound's progress from the Idaho frontier to the literary hangouts of London and Paris and on to incarceration in a Washington, D.C., insane asylum and old age and death in postwar Italy. The author examines both the generosity and genius that endeared the poet to T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, and Allen Ginsberg, among others, and the megalomania and condescension that riled the likes of Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, and Wyndham Lewis. Carpenter's evenhandedness, even when dealing with Pound's anti-Semitism, is admirable and his slightly jaundiced attitude toward human foibles strikes precisely the right note. All the facts of Pound's personal and professional life are here, too, and they are largely told in anecdotal form. The text is chockablock with revealing, frequently shocking, and often hilarious incidents. Carpenter reveals, for example, that when the tone-deaf Pound wrote his opera, ""The Testament of Villon,"" the composer/librettist felt that Ethel Merman would be the ideal diva for his work. As the author points out, there was more than a little of the Barnum-ish huckster in Pound. He apparently once considered opening a syphilis clinic in North Africa and on another occasion asked Ernest Hemingway whether it might be possible to make some money writing songs for American election campaigns. Carpenter has captured the brilliance, complexity, viciousness, and infantilism of his subject in telling images. One of the top biographies of the year. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Ezra Pound is certainly a full load for any biographer to tackle: How to reconcile the undeniable achievement of his poetry with the irascible personality whose opinions became notorious and distasteful when Pound declined into madness? To Carpenter's credit, he manages this task with rich detail and solid documentation. Pound's life and career are traced deftly and compassionately, with all the various successes and scandals accounted for without prejudice. Carpenter's study is especially rewarding when taken in conjunction with The Letters of T. S. Eliot [BKL N 15 88], which also documents the relationship between the two writers, as people and as teacher and student. Carpenter is also the author of The Secret Garden: A Study of the Golden Age of Children's Literature [BKL My 15 85]. Notes, bibliography; index. JB.
Choice 评论
Any 1,000-page biography may look, of itself, like adulation, but professional biographer Carpenter has countered that assumption by almost never giving Pound, the man, the benefit of a doubt. He admires Pound's energy, influence, and generosity, but his treatment of the works is generally reductionist. Overwhelming in its gathering, marshaling, and presenting detail, it is most likely the landmark biography not to be superseded--though it might be supplemented here and there. Already the "standard" biographies by Charles Norman (Ezra Pound, 1960) and Noel Stock (The Life of Ezra Pound, CH, Dec '70) and the self-limiting works on Pound's childhood, his Kensington years, his summers at Stone Cottage, his St. Elizabeth's years have been made historically valid only. Carpenter treats Pound's lawyer, Julien Cornell, and the head of St. Elizabeth's, Dr. Winfred Overholser, unsympathetically. He cites material unique thus far in treating the post-1958 years. Fully documented, utilizing sources previously unexamined and 3 unrivalled photo galleries, the book's good crosslighting on most modern poets, friends and enemies, makes it also a fine anecdotal history of modern poetry. A clean bibliography, an index of titles and first lines of the Pound works cited, and a lush index make this heavy and humorless biography a superior reference work. For all levels except secondary and vocational/technical, it is an unavoidable investment worth scrimping for. -J. N. Igo, Jr., San Antonio College