Hiursday, April 3,1975
PAGE THREE
Pound Reading Monday
he
daughter of America
and critic Ezra Poimd,
JssMaryDeRachewilte,
deUver the annual Ezra
llLecture at St. Andrews
tebvterian CoUege, Mon-
ffiril7,1975,at7:30pm
’ the Liberal Arts
Jc^ De Rachewiltz is
hpr’s paper at Kaacune
titute, Cambridge,
, achusetts. Her ap-
france at St Andrews
esbyterian College will
„ch a national lecture toiu-
will terminate on the
st Coast prior to a visit to
famous father’s bir-
jlace, HaUey, Idaho-which
having its first Pound
lebration this year.
Idary De Rachewiltz, her-
If an author, is best known
discretions, an
iioblography, published by
tiantic-Little Brown. She
les in Brunnenburg, Italy,
ith her husband and
Idren, Walter and Tricia.
De Rachewiltz is
as Italy’s leading
itologist and himself did
le Egyptian translations
ith Pound.
[considered by many
lerica’s greatest poet and
icher since Walt WhitmM,
jund was bom in the frontier
Dinmunity of HaUey, Idaho,
and was educated at
Iton College and the
(niversity of Pennsylvania,
is first book of poems was
iblished in 1908 in Venice. He
iblished over ninety volumes
poetry, criticism and tran-
ition (particularly the tran-
ition of poetry).
In the long span of his
reer, Pound founded poetic
lovements - Imagism and
'ortidsm-, edited some of the
lost influential literary jour-
ils of this era, and has
ivoluntionized the language
id direction of twentieth cen-
American poetry. As W.
Auden once remarked:
1‘Hiere are very few living
rince
town
poets, even if they are not con
scious of having been in
fluenced by Pound, who could
say, ‘My work would be exac
tly the same if Mr. Pound had
never lived.’” William Carlos
Williams, Denise Levertov, W.
S. Merwin, Charles Olson and
Kenneth Rexroth are among
the contemporary writers who
have acknowledged his im
portance.
FUCIUS (Great Digest, Un-
wobbling Pivot, Analects),
GAUDIER-BRZESKA, GUID-
E TO KULCHUR, PAVAN-
NES AND DIVAGATIONS,
THE SPIRIT OF ROMANCE,
LITERARY ESSAYS,
WOMEN OF TRACHIS, A
LUME SPENTO AND
OTHER EARLY POEMS,
THE CLASSIC NOH
POEMS, SELECTED LET
TERS, TRANSLATIONS
(Anglo-Saxon, Chinese, Greek
Hindi, Italian, Japanese,
Latin and Provencal poetry).
His major poetic work,
THE CANTOS, began ap
pearing in 1917. The revised
edition of the complete CAN
TOS 1-117, incorporating
“Thrones” and “Drafts and
Fragments” (1969) was
published in 1970 by New
Directions. Canto 120 was in
cluded in the third printing
(1972) of THE CANTOS.
Pound’s own selection from
his CANTOS was also
published by New Directions
in 1973. THE MUSIC OF
EZRA POUND, edited by
Murray Shafer, is planned for
publication by new Directions
at a future date, as well as the
score for his opera, LE
TESTAMENT.
He died in Venice on
November 2, 1972, at the age
of 87 years.
The public is invited to
Princess De Rachewiltz’ lec
ture, according to Ronald H.
Bayes, Writing Program
Director at St. Andrews
Presbyterian College.
V
While a young poet, Pound
lived in London, in the 1920’s in
paris, and thereafter con
sidered Italy his home.
Books by
ARP OF READING THE
CONFUCIAN ODES, CON-
THEATRE OF JAPAN, CON
FUCIUS TO CUMMINGS,
LOVE POEMS OF ANCIENT
EGYPT, MOSCARDINO,
PERSONAE, POUND%JOY-
CE- LETTERS AND
ESSAYS, SELECTED
M-
Doubles Chairs
Group
Dr. Malcolm C. Doubles,
Associate Professor of
Religion and Dean of Students
at St. Andrews Presbyterian
College, was chosen to con
tinue as Chairman of the
Executive Council of the
Association for Targumic
Studies at its meeting in Atlan
ta this past weekend, March 21
through 23, 1975. Founded in
1972 to support and encourage
the publication and study of
the Targums and related sub
jects, the Association for
Targumic Studies is an in
ternational organization with
members in over 15 nations in
cluding most of Western
Europe. As Chairman of the
Executive Committee, Dr.
Doubles will be the chief
executive officer of the
Association.
The targums are tran
slations of the Hebrew Old
Testament into the Aramaic
language and were meant to
be used in Jewish synagogues
in the ancient world.
Variously dated between 100
BC and 900 AD, most of them
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A QUICK glimpse of Lake Moore m j
reminder of spring.
are unpublished and some of
them have been discovered
recently. Since many of them
contain lengthy paraphrases
and expansions rather than
literal word for word tran
slations, they provide
valuable insights into the
religion and culture of the
groups using them. Such a
vehicle for knowledge of
Jewish synagogue life and
belief is of importance both for
modern understanding of
Jewish life under the Romans
and perhaps for clearer in
terpretation of the meaning
and message of the New
Testament. The Association
for Targumic Studies was for
med to prepare and publish
scholarly texts and tran
slations of these targums and
to sponsor and encourage fur
ther studies of their language
and thought.
To this end the Association
chose St. Andrews Presby
terian College, with its ex
cellent and immediately
available computer facilities,
to be the center for its text'
and translation project.
Called the Project for the
Computerization and
Publication of Targumic
Literature, it has Professor
Ernest Clarke of the Univer
sity of Toronto as the
Executive Editor of the series
and Dr. Doubles as the
Managing Editor, plus an
editorial board of seven other
scholars: Professor W. Auf-
frecht (McMasters College,
Hamilton, Ontario), Dr. J.
Foster (Keiffer College), Dr.
Charles Fritsch (Princeton
University), Dr. B. Grossfield
(University of Wisconsin),
Professor M. Klein (Bar Elan
University, Israel), Dr. G.
Kuiper (Interdenominational
Theological Center, Atlanta),
and Dr. S. Lund (Boston
University). The Association
is currently seeking funds to
support this activity, and if
successful, the present state of
research indicates that the fir
st texts should begin to appear
in about two years.