Dorothy Shakespear and The Cantos of Ezra Pound

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.

This book begins with an expansive biographical essay on Dorothy Shakespear as an artist and collaborator. Subsequent chapters discuss the nature of the early editions of Ezra Pound's Cantos and how the "abandoned" third folio came to be. Finally, the book includes the full texts of cantos 28-51, together with Shakespear's illumination, done in Vorticist style. For the first time Dorothy Shakespear's art and her contribution to The Cantos is considered on its own terms and the third folio can be seen as Shakespear and Pound planned.