エズラ・パウンドのヴェネツィア

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Ezra Pound hated the United Kingdom so much that he headed for France and then for Italy, where he ended his life. Needless to say, he left the United Kingdom partly because of his dislike for the general public, but there remains one question regarding the reason he left: why did he escape not to his homeland America, but to Italy? He liked it extremely, especially Venice, which he referred to many times in his book of poetry, 'Cantos'. What was the reason for his persistence with Venice? We can work out the answers to these questions by looking at ideas of the 19 th-century author, artist, and social reformer, John Ruskin. Ruskin felt disgust at the Renaissance art because of man-made things, and loved those works of art that remained in Venice, which seemed to have elements of the Middle Ages. Similarly, Pound exhibited a preference not for artificial art but the art of antiquity. So in Venice, he could find out, by the influence of Ruskin, the art in which the ancient Pantheon existed, which was beyond the wisdom of man. Therefore, Pound lived at Venice and paraphrased his own image of Venice into the literary works of his.
英米文化学会の論文
2002-03-31