What should I have read before starting The Cantos?
>>8039874
A lot of shit.
Selected Works - Ezra Pounds
The Waste Land - TS Eliot
The Sweeney Poems - TS Eliot
The Four Quartets - TS Eliot
Ulysses - James Joyce
Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
Selected Poems - Hilda Doolittle
Selected Poems - W. B. Yeats
Selected Poems - Li Po
Song of Myself - Walt Whitman
The Quran
The Iliad - Homer
The Odyssey - Homer
The Aeneid - Virgil
Metamorphoses - Ovid
Beowulf - Anonymous
Journey to the West - Wu Cheng'en
1001 Nights - Anonymous
The Epic of Gilgamesh - Anonymous
Old Testament
New Testament
The Republic - Plato
The Complete Works - Aristotle
Inferno - Dante
Purgatorio - Dante
Paradiso - Dante
The Complete Plays - William Shakespeare
Paradise Lost - John Milton
ナルト - Masashi Kishimoto
The Western Canon - Harold Bloom
The Eastern Canon - Sun Tzu
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
War, What is it Good For? - Leo Tolstoy
The Pan-Galactic Memory Bank - Kilgore Trout
U. p: up. - Denis Breen
The Complete Laverne & Shirley - Garry Marshall
For sale: baby shoes, never worn - Ernest Hemingway (optional)
Photoshop CS6 for Dummies - Peter Bauer
Cease and desist - Your ex wife
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
I sometimes I wish I could have been a historical, literary matchmaker.
Had Pound met Evola, he probably would have become something timeless.
As it is, history remembers him as some sort of (rightfully) pseudo-remorseful fascist; and The Cantos are a load of incoherent shit.
I don't know about what you have to read before but make sure to skip the bottom of the last page. It'll ruin the whole thing for you.>Thanks again for hanging around
>you just read the Cantos of Ezra Pound
What was he thinking?
>>8039894
Nice list lad, however I couldn't help but notice the lack of Paradise Loft
>>8039958
Proof the whole thing was a self conscious meme.
>>8039972
this,
also Odysseus Weeps
Everything.
why do you want to read non rhymed words without any meter written in a column
i take that it';s good that he was against jews but imo it';s not enough
>>8039894
>Cease and desist - Your ex wife
Honestly, if you start reading Pound before you read this, it will probably end in disaster
>>8039874
Greek, Roman, and Egyptian mythology; the works of Robert Browning, Ovid, Homer, and Dante; American, Asian, and European history.
