The Cantos is a long modernist poem by Ezra Pound, written in 109 canonical sections in addition to a number of drafts and fragments added as a supplement at the request of the poem's …

The Cantos, collection of poems by Ezra Pound, who began writing these more or less philosophical reveries in 1915. The first were published in Poetry magazine in 1917; through …

Ezra Pound referred to The Cantos as, variously, ‘an epic including history’ and, with more muted self-praise, a ‘ragbag’. Yet although it is undeniably a ragbag, there are a number of key …

The word “canto” means “song” in Italian, but the first examples of cantos date back to the time of Homer when epics were recited orally. Cantos are used for epic poems such as Homer’s …

It comprises approximately 120 individual poems, each termed a "canto." The text weaves through historical narratives, personal reflections, and philosophical musings, forming a …

The Cantos Project is dedicated to the research of Ezra Pound's long poem The Cantos

Cantos are sections that provide breaks in an epic or long narrative poem, essentially serving as the function of chapters in novels rather than stanzas found in other forms of poetry.

Pound wrote The Cantos over several decades, with the first canto published in 1917 and later cantos being added until his death in 1972. The Cantos is known for its complex structure and …

Detail of a 14th-century manuscript of Dante Alighieri's Commedia, a three-part poem (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) that was divided into 100 cantos. The canto (Italian pronunciation: …

The Cantos is a lengthy, sprawling modern epic poem that was meant to document the history of the human race. It was also supposed to reinvent the genre of the epic poem by casting a …