Description:
This book is a detailed study of Ezra Pound's explicit and implicit use of elements of the Neoplatonic tradition in his prose and poetry, and of the way it informed his poetics as well as his political and social-economic
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Brief description: Peter Liebregts is Professor of Modern Literatures in English at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. He is the author of Centaurs in the Twilight: W.B. Yeats's Use of the Classical Tradition (1992) and Ezra Pound and Neoplatonism (2004), for which he was awarded the Ezra Pound Society Prize in 2005. He has co-edited 12 books, and has published over 40 book chapters and scholarlyarticles, primarily on classical reception, and on Modernism. In 2008, he was awarded a Research Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Sciences (KNAW) for a one-year stay at The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS).