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3 de sept. de 2010 · A lume spento -- A quinzaine for this Yule -- Some poems from the "San Trovaso" notebook Gallup, D. Pound (1983 ed.)
A Lume Spento (With Tapers Spent), which sold 100 copies at six cents each. The London Evening Standard called it "wild and haunting stuff, absolutely poetic, original, imaginative." The title was from the third canto of Dante's Purgatorio, alluding to both the excommunicate Manfred's death, and to that of
“A lume spento” could mean “with lights out,” but for historical reasons, most translators of the Purgatorio give something like Pound’s “with tapers quenched.” The phrase refers to the medieval tradition of burying heretics “sine cruce, sine luce”—without crosses or candles to accompany them.
A Lume Spento (translated by the author as With Tapers Quenched) is a 1908 poetry collection by Ezra Pound. Self-published in Venice, it was his first collection.
Ezra Pound's A Lume Spento: A Preliminary Census Thomas A. Goldwasser EZRA POUND'S first book—A Lume Spento, "In the City of Al dus" [i.e. Venice]: A. Antonini, 1908—has long been considered one of the rarest and most desirable books of modern poetry. Much, al though far from the whole story, is known about the circumstances of
A Lume Spento 9 A Quinzaine for This Yule 8 3 Some Poems from the "San Trovaso" Notebook I I I Bibliographical Note 124 Index of Titles and First Lines 125 . Foreword (1964) A collection of stale creampuffs. "Chocolate creams, who hath forgotten you?" At a time when ...
Pound, Ezra - A Lume Spento & Other Early Poems (New Directions, 1965) - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free.
