Project Gutenberg 2025-06-27 Public domain in the USA. 174 Pound, Ezra 1885 1972 Pound, Ezra Loomis Atheling, William 10030745 Provença : $b Poems selected from Personae, Exultations, and Canzoniere of Ezra Pound $aBoston :$bSmall, Maynard and Company, $c1910. Sean Robson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Provença : Poems selected from Personae, Exultations, and Canzoniere of Ezra…" by Ezra Pound is a collection of poetry compiled in the early 20th century. The book brings together dramatic monologues, lyrics, and formal experiments that channel medieval Provence and Italy through modernist craft. Its likely topic is the renewal of old songs and courtly themes—love, war, piety, and fame—through vivid personae and finely wrought forms. The volume is arranged in three parts. Personae stages bold voices—troubadours, mystics, warriors, and wanderers—speaking from settings that range from Provençal courts and Italian roads to ash woods, sea caves, and modern London; poems like “La Fraisne,” “Cino,” “Na Audiart,” “Sestina: Altaforte,” “Ballad of the Goodly Fere,” and “Piccadilly” show desire, revolt, and spiritual hunger in archaic yet urgent diction. Exultations mixes litany and flare—Venetian night prayers, martial exultation, portraits of artists, poetic self-possession in “Histrion,” and visionary pieces like “Paracelsus in Excelsis,” alongside adaptations (Lope de Vega’s lullaby, a Greek epigram) and laments and albas in Provençal manner. Canzoniere presents strict studies in form—octaves, sonnets, ballate, and canzoni modeled on Arnaut Daniel, Dante, and Cavalcanti—where light, sea, angels, and the “Lady” organize longing and praise, culminating in an epilogue to Guido Cavalcanti and notes that gloss the medieval sources. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/provencpoemssele00pounrich/page/n7/mode/2up 20250524162243pound 1910 US Reading ease score: 82.6 (6th grade). Easy to read. en American poetry -- 20th century PS Text Category: Poetry Category: American Literature 184213 2025-07-30T08:01:34.720611 text/html 166739 2025-06-27T13:58:32 text/html 415920 2025-07-30T08:01:42.753600 application/epub+zip 414115 2025-07-30T08:01:36.615601 application/epub+zip 391279 2025-07-30T08:01:35.537612 application/epub+zip 1120374 2025-07-30T08:01:46.187596 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1088540 2025-07-30T08:01:41.904576 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 99317 2025-07-30T08:01:34.001627 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 79412 2025-06-27T13:58:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 13960 2025-07-30T08:01:46.376558 application/rdf+xml 16245 2025-07-30T08:01:35.814627 image/jpeg 2505 2025-07-30T08:01:35.671614 image/jpeg 319398 2025-07-30T08:01:34.739658 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia