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A Lume Spento consists of 45 poems. A Lume Spento is replete with allusions to works which had influenced Pound, including Provençal and late Victorian literatures. Pound adopts Robert Browning's technique of dramatic monologues, and as such he "appears to speak in the voices of historical or legendary figures".
- Ezra Pound
- 1908
Sep 3, 2010 · A lume spento -- A quinzaine for this Yule -- Some poems from the "San Trovaso" notebook Gallup, D. Pound (1983 ed.)
A Lume Spento (With Tapers Spent), which sold 100 copies at six cents each. The London Evening Standard called it "wild and haunting stuff, absolutely poetic, original, imaginative." The title was from the third canto of Dante's Purgatorio, alluding to both the excommunicate Manfred's death, and to that of
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A Lume Spento and other early Poems by Ezra Pound. Publication date 1965 Publisher Faber Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor ...
A Lume Spento. , with tapers quenched, in reference to a mourning ceremony mentioned by Dante. He also dedicated the volume to Smith, “Painter, Dreamer of Dreams”. There are some forty or so poems in the collection and they reflect both the student.
A Lume Spento is a collection of poems by Ezra Pound, a major figure of the Modernist movement in early-to-mid 20th century poetry. The book was privately printed in Venice in 1908 and includes an active table of contents, footnotes, and poetic indentation.
In the Purgatorio, “a lume spento” appears in the mouth of Manfred, King of Sicily and the son of Frederick II, the stupor mundi. When Dante meets him in the Valley of the Rulers,
