Inventor or master? Homer to Ezra Pound's eyes

"I never read half Homero page without melodic invention, melodic invention that I did not know." Ezra Pound

In addition to revisiting the great classics of literature for deep analysis and creation of literature ABC, Ezra Pound, poet and American literary critic, reconfigures themes of classical literature and medieval in his poetry. In addition to Homer, Dante, Provencal poets, there's a whole care to look at the great literati, to trace a path and a trip without forgetting that their home was the literary tradition.

The "epic without plot" which is the work Cantos of Ezra Pound, defines as an artist, created in Canto I the representation of a Ulysses who participate in "a non-working trip" to the underworld to speak with Tiresias.

Pound also provides an interesting relationship with the intertextual own literary translation of the Homeric work. With the "Jaz in peace, Divus" refers to the Renaissance scholar who "met" in one of his first trips to Paris, Andreas Divus, when he had contact with his translation of the Odyssey, published in 1538, and it is this version that he himself translated his corner 1 (CR Ludwig), noting that the protagonist of Odyssey survives the time, but among the metamorphoses that the languages and translations promote.

"I never read half Homero page without melodic invention, ie melodic invention that I did not know."

In one of the three forms of poetry is melopoeia: when poetry is imbued with musicality. So obviously the Homeric work is template for the poetry of all time. For Pound, when it is literary writings are identified: inventors; teachers; thinners; good writers without salient qualities; and fashion launchers.

INVENTOR AND MASTER

Inventors Men discovered a new process or whose work gives us the first known example of a process / Masters Men who combined a number of such processes and used them as well or better than the inventores.// Given the fact that there is so much to live the question whether Homer was one man, were two bards (different for each of the works attributed to the Greek poet) or if it was a set of men, it is difficult to understand if the writer's Odyssey and Iliad it would be an inventor or a master. You may have achieved the glory of being both at the same tim

The important thing is to realize that to Ezra Pound "While the player does not know the first two categories (inventors and masters), will be unable to distinguish the trees of the forest. He may know you like. It can be a true amateur of books, with a large library of beautifully printed volumes, the most expensive and showy bindings, but never be able to order their knowledge or appreciate the value of a book in relation to others, and feel even more confused and less able to make a judgment about a book whose author is "breaking with convention" than a book about eighty or a hundred years ago. "

Obviously it was not Homer, his unique literary basis, not just Dante. I think this is like imagining the Parthenon with just one pillar. The literary writer monument Corners is nothing more than a succession of ad infinitude references.