He thought, how easy this killing. He rushed with hisspearshaft gripped under his arm. He cried out, "I amKagekiyo of the Heike." He rushed on to take them. Hepierced through the helmet vizards of Miyanoya. Miyanoyafled twice, and again; and Kagekiyo cried: "You shall notescape me!" He leaped and wrenched off his helmet. "Eya!"The vizard broke and remained in his hand, and Miyanoyastill fled afar, and afar, and he looked back crying interror, "How terrible, how heavy your arm!" And Kagekiyocalled at him, "How tough the shaft of your neck is!" Andthey both laughed out over the battle, and went off each hisown way.
The "Times Literary Supplement" spoke of Mr. Pound's "mastery of beautiful diction" and his "cunningly rhythmically prose," in its review of the "Noh."
Even since "Lustra," Mr. Pound has moved again. This move is to the epic, of which three cantos appear in the American "Lustra" (they have already appeared in "Poetry"—Miss Monroe deserves great honour for her courage in printing an epic poem in this twentieth century—but the version in "Lustra" is revised and is improved by revision). We will leave it as a test: when anyone has studied Mr. Pound's poems inchronologicalorder, and has mastered "Lustra" and "Cathay," he is prepared for the Cantos— but not till then. If the reader then fails to like them, he has probably omitted some step in his progress, and had better go back and retrace the journey.
A LUME SPENTO (100 copies). Antonelli, Venice, June, 1908.
A QUINZAINE FOR THIS YULE.First 100 printed by Pollock, London, December, 1908.Second 100 published under Elkin Mathews' imprint, London,December, 1908.
PERSONAE. Mathews, London, Spring, 1909.
EXULTATIONS. Mathews, London, Autumn, 1909.
THE SPIRIT OF ROMANCE. Dent, London, 1910.
PROVENÇA (a selection of poems from "Personae" and"Exultations" with new poems). Small Maynard, Boston, 1910.
CANZONI. Mathews, London, 1911.
THE SONNETS AND BALLATE OF GUIDO CAVALCANTI (translated).Small Maynard, Boston, 1912.A cheaper edition of the same, Swift and Co., London, 1912.The bulk of this edition destroyed by fire.
RIPOSTES. Swift, London, 1912.(Note.—This book contains the first announcement ofImagism, in the foreword to the poems of T. E. Hulme.)
"A FEW DON'TS BY AN IMAGISTE," in "Poetry," for March, 1913.
"CONTEMPORANIA" (poems), in "Poetry," April, 1913.
PERSONAE, EXULTATIONS, CANZONI, RIPOSTES, published in twovolumes. Mathews, London, 1913.
FIRST OF THE NOTES ON JAMES JOYCE, "Egoist," January, 1914.
FIRST OF THE ARTICLES CONCERNING GAUDIER-BRZESKA, "Egoist,"February, 1914.
"DES IMAGISTES," poems by several authors selected by EzraPound, published as a number of "The Glebe," in New York.February, 1914.Alfred Kreymborg was at this time editor of "The Glebe." Thefirst arrangements for the anthology were made through thekind offices of John Cournos during the winter of 1912-13.The English edition of this anthology published by The PoetryBook Shop. London, 1914.
ARTICLE ON WYNDHAM LEWIS, "Egoist," June 15, 1914.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO FIRST NUMBER OF "Blast," June 20, 1914.
"VORTICISM," an article in "The Fortnightly Review," September,1914.
"GAUDIER-BRZESKA," an article in "The New Age," February 4,1915.
CONTRIBUTIONS to second number of "Blast," 1915.
CATHAY. Mathews, London, April, 1915. (Translations from theChinese from the notes of Ernest Fenollosa.)
THE CATHOLIC ANTHOLOGY, edited by Ezra Pound. Mathews, London,December, 1915.
GAUDIER-BRZESKA, a memoir. John Lane, London and New York, 1916.
LUSTRA (poems) public edition, pp. 116. Mathews, London, 1916.200 copies privately printed and numbered, pp. 124.
CERTAIN NOBLE PLAYS OF JAPAN. Cuala Press, Dundrum, Ireland,1916. Translated by Ernest Fenollosa and Ezra Pound, with anintroduction by William Butler Yeats.
NOH, or Accomplishment. A study of the Classical Stage ofJapan, including translations of fifteen plays, by ErnestFenollosa and Ezra Pound. Macmillan, London, 1917. Knopf, NewYork, 1917.
PASSAGES FROM THE LETTERS OF JOHN BUTLER YEATS, selected by EzraPound, with brief editorial note. Cuala Press, 1917.
LUSTRA, with Earlier Poems, Knopf, New York, 1917. (Thiscollection of Mr. Pound's poems contains all that he nowthinks fit to republish.)There is also a privately-printed edition of fifty copies,with a reproduction of a drawing of Ezra Pound by HenriGaudier-Brzeska (New York, 1917).
PAVANNES and DIVISIONS (Prose), in preparation. Knopf,New York.