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Personæ: The Collected Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound is a 1926 collection of poems by Ezra Pound.

Overview
From Humphrey Carpenter's A Serious Character: The Life of Ezra Pound

Soon after arriving in Rapallo, towards the end of 1925, he prepared what was intended as his Collected Poems (excluding the Cantos) for Boni & Liveright in New York, but which became a selection. He discarded what he now regarded as mere "soft stuff" and "metrical exercises," things which "no longer convince me that I had anything to say when I wrote 'em"; but retained, without any apology or revision of the text, a considerable amount of his work from his earliest volumes, and called the book Personæ, which title he had first used in 1909. Published in December 1926, it was the first of his books to remain in print in various forms for the rest of his life.

Reception
Review

Reviewed Work(s): A Guide to Ezra Pound's "Personae" (1926) by K. K. Ruthven

Review by: Edd Wheeler

Source: American Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 2, Part 2 (Summer, 1970), pp. 312-313

Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press

Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2712180

Accessed: 02-09-2019 06:12 UTC

Review: Ezra Pound

Reviewed Work(s): A Guide to Ezra Pound's "Personae" (1926) by K. K. Ruthven; The EarlyPoetry of Ezra Pound by Thomas H. Jackson and Ezra Pound; The Poetry of Ezra Pound:Forms and Renewal 1908-1920 by Hugh Witemeyer and Ezra Pound; Ezra Pound's "Cathay"by Wai-lim Yip; Ezra Pound: The Image and the Real by Herbert N. Schneidau

Review by: Guy Davenport

Source: Contemporary Literature, Vol. 11, No. 4 (Autumn, 1970), pp. 579-585

Published by: University of Wisconsin Press

Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1207637

Accessed: 02-09-2019 06:16 UTC

Review: The View beyond the Dinghey

Reviewed Work(s): The Influence of Ezra Pound by K. L. Goodwin; New Approaches to EzraPound by Eva Hesse and Charles Norman; Ezra Pound by Daniel D. Pearlman; The Barb ofTime by Michael Reck; Ezra Pound: A Close-Up by K. K. Ruthven; A Guide to Ezra Pound's"Personae" (1926) by Herbert N. Schneidau and Ezra Pound; Ezra Pound: The Image and theReal by Hugh Witemeyer; The Poetry of Ezra Pound: Forms and Renewal, 1908-1920 byWai-lim Yip; Ezra Pound's "Cathay" by

Review by: Frederick K. Sanders

Source: The Sewanee Review, Vol. 79, No. 3 (Summer, 1971), pp. 433-460

Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press

Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27542547

Accessed: 02-09-2019 06:19 UTC

Review

Reviewed Work(s): New Approaches to Ezra Pound by Eva Hesse; A Guide to Ezra Pound'sPersonae (1926) by K. K. Ruthven; Ezra Pound: The Image and the Real by Herbert N.Schneidau; The Poetry of Ezra Pound: Forms and Renewals, 1908-1920 by Hugh Witemeyer

Review by: Merle E. Brown

Source: The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Spring, 1971), pp. 412-414

Published by: Wiley on behalf of The American Society for Aesthetics

Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/428986

Accessed: 02-09-2019 06:20 UTC

Review: Mr. Pound and the Younger Generation

Reviewed Work(s): Personae: The Collected Poems of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound

Review by: Maurice Lesemann

Source: Poetry, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Jul., 1927), pp. 216-222

Published by: Poetry Foundation

Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20576126

Accessed: 02-09-2019 06:10 UTC

Review: Pound Recoined

Reviewed Work(s): Personae: The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound, Lea Baechlerand A. Walton Litz

Review by: Steven Helmling

Source: The Sewanee Review, Vol. 99, No. 4 (Fall, 1991), pp. xci-xciv

Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press

Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27546408

Accessed: 02-09-2019 06:10 UTC

Review: THREE AMERICAN POETS

Reviewed Work(s): Personæ. The Collected Poems of Ezra Pound by ; Tristram by EdwinArlington Robinson; Animula Vagula by Leonard Bacon

Review by: John Hyde Preston

Source: The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 3, No. 3 (JULY 1927), pp. 450-462

Published by: University of Virginia

Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26434281

Accessed: 02-09-2019 06:11 UTC