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| | Pound the Poet |
 | | The first poem of the sequence tells us how he came to England from a half-savage country, attracted by the sirens, the songs he had read in English poetry of the past, hoping to find his ideal, an and like that of Flaubert, laboriously looking for the right word, the accurate word. |
 | | The last poem, the envoi, is written in the style of Waller, the poet who wrote for music in the time of merry England, and gathers allusions to the greatest English writers of the past: Waller, Chaucer, Milton, Shakespeare, all representatives of the better tradition which he had tried to revive. |
 | | Pound's Cantos are a sort of journal in verse of the poet's intellectual epic search for meaningful moments in the cultural past. |
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