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  • Chapter 1 - Classical Literature

  • from Part I - Pound’s Texts
  • Edited by Mark Byron, University of Sydney
  • Book:
    The New Ezra Pound Studies
    Published online:
    17 October 2019
    Print publication:
    07 November 2019, pp 9-25

  • Summary

    In a 1949 essay entitled ‘The Hellenists’, Ezra Pound argued that ‘a revival and a much greater diffusion of Greek studies is necessary to the conservation of decency’, a statement that expresses his decades-long argument for the wider distribution of classical literature as an engine of social transformation. The revival and circulation of classical languages and literatures preoccupied Pound, even as he expressed fluctuating levels of disdain for classics as an academic discipline. In turn, classics scholars have sometimes returned Pound’s animosity, as was seen most prominently when University of Chicago classicist W. G. Hale responded to Pound’s ‘Homage to Sextus Propertius’ by concluding that if he were a Latin professor, ‘there would be nothing left but suicide’.