Women of Trachis: Play (Version by Ezra Pound) - Softcover

Pound, Ezra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811209482 ISBN 13: 9780811209489

Publisher: New Directions, 1985

Synopsis

When Hercules returns home with a beautiful young princess, Daysair, his jealous wife, gives him a cloak treated with what she believes is a powerful love potion in hopes of winning him back

About this title

From the Back Cover:

For Ezra Pound, Sophokles' Women of Trachis represented 'the highest peak of Greek sensibility registered in any of the plays that have come down to us...' Nothing rhetorical, nothing long winded survives in Pound's tragedy of Herakles.

About the Author:

New Directions has been the primary publisher of Ezra Pound in the U.S. since the founding of the press when James Laughlin published New Directions in Prose and Poetry 1936. That year Pound was fifty-one. In Laughlin’s first letter to Pound, he wrote: “Expect, please, no fireworks. I am bourgeois-born (Pittsburgh); have never missed a meal. . . . But full of ‘noble caring’ for something as inconceivable as the future of decent letters in the US.” Little did Pound know that into the twenty-first century the fireworks would keep exploding as readers continue to find his books relevant and meaningful.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0811209482
• ISBN 13: 9780811209489
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 66