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"That Ezra Pound was the chief architect of Modernism in English and American poetry is well established. So, too, is the fact that in T.S. Eliot he discovered a peer, whose early career he fostered. Together, Pound and Eliot defined what Modern Poetry meant. But they also had peers in two great Irish writers: Yeats in poetry and Joyce in fiction. With them, they were major shapers of the Modernist style. The Age of Modernism was dominated by American and Irish writers who took part in reshaping the English literary tradition in the twentieth century. "Ezra Pound and Modernism" was the topic of the 25th Ezra Pound International Conference in Dublin in July of 2013, and the papers selected for this volume clearly demonstrate that."--Amazon Preface: Welcome Address / Seamus Heaney -- I. ASPECTS OF MODERNISM -- Defining Modernism: Technique Plus Critique / William Pratt -- Amy Lowell's European Experiment / Alice Bailey Cheylan -- The Modernists, Pound and Hopkins / Desmond Egan -- II. ON TRANSLATION -- Eva Hesse and the Adventures of The Cantos in German / Heinz Ickstadt and Manfred Pfister -- Dante's Afterlife and the Question of Translation: Pound, Binyon, Heaney / Giovanna Epifania -- "With the sun in a golden cup": Pound and Stesichorus in Canto 23 / Peter Liebregts -- Pound, Benjamin, and the Language of Names / Giuliana Ferreccio -- Paradise, Compassion, and Jen in Canto 93 / John Gery -- III. IRISH DIMENSIONS -- "I ask you, had Synge an audience in his life-time?": Ezra Pound and J.M. Synge / Walter Baumann -- The Pounds and the Yeatses: An Irish-American Friendship and Its Influence on Modern Poetry / Anne Conover -- Reading Yeats Reading Pound / Catherine Paul -- "Iseult who was the great love": Ezra Pound, Iseult Gonne, and Francis Stuart / Massimo Bacigalupo -- Pound & the Artichoke, Beckett & the Whistle / Ira Nadel -- IV. THE FINE ARTS -- Botticelli's Mystical Nativity and the Isle of Capri in W.B. Yeats's A Vision / Caterina Ricciardi -- "Let's to Music": Florence Farr, Arnold Dolmetsch and Pound's Musical Poetics / Jonathan C. Creasy -- Ezra Pound, Aubrey Beardsley, and The Yellow Book / Jo Brantley Berryman
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