Preferred Citation: Beach, Christopher. ABC of Influence: Ezra Pound and the Remaking of American Poetic Tradition. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1992 1992. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0b69n6n3/


 

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Cage, John, 27

Campion, Thomas, 57

Canon, 5 -6, 8 -9, 16 , 42 -65, 196 .

See also Tradition

Cantos (Pound), 10 , 13 , 25 , 49 , 64 -65;

Bloom and, 45 ;

Creeley and, 30 -35 passim;

Dorn and, 218 , 221 ;

Duncan and, 137 , 141 -58 passim, 162 -73 passim, 179 -87 passim;

Ginsberg and, 37 -40, 165 ;

ideogram in, 40 , 51 , 54 , 65 , 78 , 141 , 151 , 169 , 173 , 185 , 187 , 212 ;

Language poetry and, 242 ;

Leverrov and, 194 , 200 -201, 202 , 203 , 204 ;

Olson and, 23 n, 76 , 86 -101 passim, 122 , 130 , 132 , 133 , 165 ;

"Rock-Drill," 132 , 133 , 150 -52, 154 , 171 , 183 ;

Snyder and, 198 , 209 , 210 , 211 , 212 , 214 -15;

Williams and, 73 -75;

women portrayed in, 152 , 154 -55, 192 ;

Zukofsky and, 78 , 79 , 81

Carne-Ross, D. S., 46

Cassirer, Ernst, 184

Caterpillar, 21

Catullus, 47

Cavalcanti, Guido:

"Donna mi priegha," 154 , 168 ;

Duncan and, 154 , 168 ;

Pound and, 18 , 47 , 57 , 85 , 117 , 143 , 152 , 154

Cell, poem as, 15 , 164 -65, 189 , 250

Chaos, 89 , 102 , 103

Charters, Samuel, 25

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 57

Chekhov, Anton, 191

Chinese, 197

Ching ming, 55

Christensen, Paul, 110 -11n, 121

Christianity, 49 , 98 , 197 , 215

Churchill, Winston, 218

City Lights Books, 21

Clarity, 128 , 240

Classicism, 7 , 36 -37, 39 , 51 , 219 -22


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Cliché, 226 -27

"Codes," poetic use of, 113

Coherence, 165 , 211

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 138 , 194

Collage, 27 , 65 ;

Duncan and, 15 , 141 , 166 , 174 , 189 ;

Language poetry and, 242 , 143 ;

Snyder and, 212 , 214

Communal sense, 61 , 93 , 107 , 140 , 158

Composition, 26 ;

Bernstein and, 242 , 249 ;

Duncan and, 162 , 174 -75;

Snyder and, 197 .

See also Form; Juxtaposition

Concrete poetry, 26 , 27

Condensation, of language, 33 , 41

Confucius, 47 , 54 , 57 ;

Duncan and, 174 , 175 ;

Levertov and, 203 ;

Olson and, 93 , 117 , 122 , 123 , 128 , 129 , 130 ;

Pound's translations of, 129

Content, in poetry, 32 , 119 , 162 , 232

Continuity, 140 , 246 , 250

Coolidge, Clark, 1 , 27 , 238 -39, 241

Corbière, Tristan, 57

Corman, Cid:

Olson and, 76 , 95 , 104 , 109 , 117 -18;

Origin and, 21 , 30

Counterculture, 1 , 140

Crabbe, George, 57

Craft, in poetry, 160 -61, 166 , 197

Crane, Hart, 24 , 46 , 53 , 114

Creation:

artistic, 9 , 102 -3, 149 ;

"re-,"  139 -40

Creeley, Robert, 29 -36;

Bloom and, 240 ;

Dorn and, 217 ;

Duncan and, 34 -35, 138 , 140 , 171 , 172 ;

"Finger," 34 , 35 -36;

Ginsberg and, 39 ;

"Helas," 34 ;

journals, 21 , 29 -30;

Language poetry and, 238 , 239 , 243243 ;

Levertov and, 190 , 192 , 193 , 194 , 195 ;

and Objectivism, 3 , 31 , 33 , 78 , 80 -81;

and Olson, 29 -35 passim, 87 , 93 -94, 111 -12, 116 , 122 , 131 , 132 , 133 , 143 ;

and postmodernism, 29 , 31 -32.;

and Pound tradition, 1 , 17 -26 passim, 29 -36, 41 ;

Snyder and, 34 , 196 -97;

and Whitman, 24 , 66 , 68 , 111 ;

"Why Pound!?!," 31 ;

and Williams, 2 , 24 , 29 , 30 , 34 , 71 , 111 ;

and Zukofsky, 19 , 29 , 77 , 80 -81, 83

"Crisis poem," 132 -33

Cummings, E. E., 2 , 45 , 67 , 114 , 121 , 249

Curtius, Ernst Robert, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, 94 , 96


 

Preferred Citation: Beach, Christopher. ABC of Influence: Ezra Pound and the Remaking of American Poetic Tradition. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1992 1992. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0b69n6n3/