Roses from the Steel Dust - Collected Essays on Ezra Pound (Hardcover)

Roses from the Steel Dust collects Walter Baumann's essays on Pound published from the 1960s to the present, along with several previously unpublished essays. It extends and supplements The Rose in the Steel Dust, a major classic of Pound studies first published in 1967 in Europe. Reviewing The Rose in the Steel Dust in the Journal of Modern Literature, Edwin Fussell said that Baumann "can grasp not only Pound's thematic meanings, but he can also shed light on Pound's techniques of allusion, juxtaposition, fusion, ellipsis, timing, etc. ... He can also relate the word-by-word, line-by-line explication of the single passage to the rest of the Cantos."