how good is this work

Harold bloom does not like it and neither do I.

It's pretty difficult

decent

It's actually incredibly ambitious

dj douggpound?

>>8484770
wat

>>8484700
Stick to collections of his earlier poetry.

>>8484770
I loved his first mixtape "Get Money...But Not Through Usury"

It's hugely ambitious and interesting, but ultimately fairly incoherent as a total work (Pound himself admits this in one of the last couple Cantos). Individual Cantos taken on their own are definitely worth reading, as well as some of the sections they were published in (imo especially the Pisan Cantos).

However, despite ultimately failing to be the great work of literature Pound desperately tried to make, its ultimately worth reading if only as an artifact of the mind of one of the most skilled, learned, and controversial poets of our generation as he descended into what some would call madness.

So yeah, you should read it.

t. A guy currently writing on honors thesis on Pound with some focus on the Cantos.

>>8485090
He thought it was a failure because his language didn't actually change the world.

At least that's how I understood Pound's intent with at least some of the cantos. Find the right language to get us out of this metaphysical-financial mess.

Only read the first canto, which is just about my favourite piece of translation of Homer.

>>8484700
>reading fascists

/lit/ dogs on Pound? What?

Pound was the greatest poet of his time. Just don't look for coherence.

>>8484842
Lol