The Pound era / [electronic resource] by Hugh Kenner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Toward the vortex -- Ghosts and benedictions -- Space-craft -- Renaissance II -- The muse in tatters -- Motz el son -- The invention of language -- Words set free -- Knot and vortex -- Transformations -- Imagism -- The invention of China -- The persistent East -- Vortex Lewis -- The stone -- pt. 2. Interregnum -- Douglas -- The sacred places -- The cantos - 1 -- O city city -- Syntax in Rutherford -- Specifics -- The cantos - 2 -- The anonymous -- Inventing Confucius -- The cage -- The last European -- The Jersey Paideuma -- The last vortex -- Endings -- Notes -- Index.