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* The Hyperion Cantos take their titles from poems by the English Romantic, John Keats.
** The Cantos by Ezra Pound ( composed 1915-1969 )
* Lamia, a family of characters in the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
Moneta is the name assumed by a character in Dan Simmons ' Hyperion Cantos.
His magnum opus, La infana raso ( The Infant Race ), is a long poem that, in Auld's words, explores " the role of the human race in time and in the cosmos ," and is based heavily on The Cantos by Ezra Pound.
* The Cantos, by Ezra Pound
* In Dan Simmons's Hyperion Cantos series, Old Earth is believed to have been destroyed by The Big Mistake of ' 08 ( in which a miniature black hole was dropped into it ), but later shown to have been spirited away by ' other ' beings of godlike abilities and consciousness.
The Hyperion Cantos is a series of science fiction novels by Dan Simmons.
Within the fictional storyline, the Hyperion Cantos is an epic poem written by the character Martin Silenus.
Scholars have noted a number of literary influences on " To Autumn ", from Virgil's Georgics, to Edmund Spenser's " Mutability Cantos ", to the language of Thomas Chatterton, to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's " Frost at Midnight ", to an essay on autumn by Leigh Hunt, which Keats had recently read.
Among the Beats, Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg studied Pound closely and were heavily influenced by his interest in Chinese and Japanese poetry and the ecological concerns evident in the later Cantos.
The Castel is one of the settings of Endymion and The Rise of Endymion, books in the Hyperion Cantos by author Dan Simmons.
He is one of the two pagans presented by Dante as saved souls encountered in Purgatorio, the other being Statius ( Cantos XX-XXII ).
This relationship was strengthened by Zukofsky's 1929 essay on Pound's long work in progress The Cantos.
In 1950, inspired by the example of Pound's Cantos ( though Olson denied any direct relation between the two epics ), Olson began writing The Maximus Poems.
Stourbridge appears in two great works of poetry from the 20th century: Finnegans Wake by James Joyce and The Cantos of Ezra Pound.
In recent years there have been several partial or full new translations: Stephen Kessler in 2001 for a photo / journey book on the ancient ruins ( Machu Picchu edited by Barry Brukoff ) and Mark Eisner's re-translation of seven of the twelve poems ( Cantos I, IV, VI, VIII, X, XI, and XII ) for an anthology celebrating the centennial of Neruda's birth in 2004, The Essential Neruda.
The inaugural prize, chosen by a jury of Fellows in American Letters of the Library of Congress, was awarded to Ezra Pound for his famous collection of poems entitled The Pisan Cantos.
*" Miguel Enríquez: Corsario boricua del siglo XVIII " by Angel López Cantos
The Fall of Hyperion is the second novel in the Hyperion Cantos, a science fiction series by American author Dan Simmons.
The Hyperion Cantos is influenced strongly by various works, including the poetry of John Keats and the teachings of the environmentalist John Muir, to the extent that a reincarnation of Keats narrates The Fall of Hyperion.
Silenus goes to the Poets ' City to complete his " Hyperion Cantos ", but is instead surprised by the Shrike and impaled on the Tree of Thorns, which is revealed to be partially real.
Hillyer is remembered as a kind of villain by Ezra Pound scholars, who associate him with his 1949 attacks on The Pisan Cantos in the Saturday Review of Literature which sparked the Bollingen Controversy.
In the period to 1925 the Press published works including Pound's A Draft of XVI Cantos, Hemingway's in our time, William Carlos Williams's The Great American Novel, and Distinguished Air by Robert McAlmon.

Cantos and Ezra
* The first canto of Ezra Pound's The Cantos ( 1922 ) is both a translation and a retelling of Odysseus ' journey to the underworld.
In Ezra Pound's Cantos, she is one of the goddess figures who comes to the poet's aid in Section: Rock-Drill ( Cantos 85 – 95 ).
Ezra Pound refers to Tyro in The Cantos.
Ezra Pound includes Santayana among his many cultural references in The Cantos, notably in " Canto LXXXI " and " Canto XCV ".
Carter was also present at the 2009 Aldeburgh Festival to hear the world premiere of his song-cycle On Conversing with Paradise, based on Ezra Pound's Canto 95 ( from the section Rock-Drill ) and one of Pound's ' Notes ' intended for later Cantos, and usually published at the end of the Cantos .< ref >
Ezra Pound refers to him near the beginning of Canto 74 ( the first of the Pisan Cantos ): " To build the city of Dioce whose terraces are the color of stars.
* Poetry and Opinion: the Pisan Cantos of Ezra Pound ( 1974 )
Famous poems that employ the canto division are Luís de Camões's Os Lusíadas ( 10 cantos ), Lord Byron's Don Juan, Valmiki's Ramayana ( 500 cantos ), Dante's The Divine Comedy ( 100 cantos ), and Ezra Pound's The Cantos ( 120 cantos ).
" America in Ezra Pound's Posthumous Cantos.
" Ezra Pound's Cantos 72 and 73: An Annotated Translation.
A Guide to the Cantos of Ezra Pound ( Anvil, 1985 ).
* Terrell, Carroll F. A Companion to The Cantos of Ezra Pound ( University of California Press, 1980 ).
* A Guide to The Cantos of Ezra Pound ( 1985 ; Revised Edition, 2001 )
Divus was also used more directly by Ezra Pound in his long poem The Cantos, in particular for the opening Canto I.
At the end of the war Ezra Pound, held prisoner, asked for Porteus to be given the work of checking the ideograms in the Pisan Cantos.
He is one of the poets referred to in Ezra Pound's Cantos, LXXXII.

Cantos and Pound
Pound also makes use of Elpenor in the first of his Cantos: ' But first Elpenor came, our friend Elpenor / Unburied, cast on the wide earth, / Limbs that we left in the house of Circe, / Unwept, unwrapped in sepulchre, since toils urged other.
Pound at that time ( 1917 ) had written his first three Cantos but was doubtful of their value.
The critic Hugh Kenner has argued that these influences helped shape the sections of The Cantos published during the 1930s, writing " Pound was reading them, and they him ".
Stourbridge found its way into Pound's Cantos via John Adams the second President of the United States, whose diary entry from 1786 Pound translated into his own epic poem.
In the intellectually challenging and formidable " Introduction " to Bending the Bow: " Pound sought coherence in The Cantos and comes in Canto 116 to lament ' and I cannot make it cohere.
Even when they reverted to the personal, like Eliot in the Four Quartets or Pound in The Cantos, they distilled the personal into a poetic texture that claimed universal human significance.
His anti-Semitism was a symptom of a larger issue in The Cantos, which was his lament at the passing on of cultural dominance from a class of elites to the masses, which for Pound included Jews, blacks, and other outsiders.
Thus, although Pound indeed distrusted the masses, " foreigners ," and so forth, The Cantos themselves ( with their references to Confucius, the agrarian populism of Jeffersonian and Jacksonian Democracy, and even the " enlightened despotism " of Leopold II ) reflect the underlying conservative sentiment behind his more well-known social and economic views ( including his anti-semitism.
The Cantos are what Mr Pound himself called them in a passage now excised from the canon, a rag-bag.
Sheet of toilet paper showing start of Canto LXXXIV, c. May 1945, part of The Pisan Cantos, suggesting Pound may have begun it while in the steel cage
This heralds perhaps the most widely quoted passages in The Cantos, in which Pound expresses his realisation that " What thou lovest well remains, / the rest is dross " and an acceptance of the need for human humility in the face of the natural world that prefigures some of the ideas associated with the deep ecology movement.
Pound was reluctant to publish these late cantos, but the appearance in 1967 of a pirate edition of Cantos 110 – 116 forced his hand.
Pound was a major influence on the Objectivist poets, and the effect of The Cantos on Zukofsky's " A " has already been noted.

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