Canto 37

Preda, Roxana

doi:10.2307/j.ctt1ps31zp.28

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“…Pound began the poem in 1915 but quickly abandoned this early draft, leaving it unfinished until 1919. 73 The version published in 1921 includes the line "Fracastor (lightning was midwife)." 74 Pound's 1954 revision of the poem makes the lightning allusion clearer: "Fracastor had Zeus for midwife, / Lightning served as his tweezers."…”

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Was Ezra Pound the “midwife” ofThe Waste Land? Surgeons, midwives, and “sage homme”

Wilson

2019

Feminist Modernist Studies

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This essay reveals a flaw in the critical consensus that regards Ezra Pound as the intellectual "midwife" of The Waste Land, a metaphor used so frequently over the last century it has become a critical commonplace. By detailing the various ways that Pound's use of reproductive language was drawn from a contemporaneous medical debate about midwifery-a hitherto unrecognized influence-this essay provides a fuller understanding of the rhetoric Pound used to discredit female writers and editors, while also highlighting the importance of feminist attention to the critical conversation itself.

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Section: Pound's Metaphors Of Creationmentioning

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Was Ezra Pound the “midwife” ofThe Waste Land? Surgeons, midwives, and “sage homme”

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2019

Feminist Modernist Studies

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Was Ezra Pound the “midwife” ofThe Waste Land? Surgeons, midwives, and “sage homme”

Was Ezra Pound the “midwife” ofThe Waste Land? Surgeons, midwives, and “sage homme”

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