A ZBC of Ezra Pound (book)

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A ZBC of Ezra Pound
Author Christine Brooke-Rose
Publisher Faber and Faber
Publication date 1971
ISBN ISBN 0-571-09135-0

A ZBC of Ezra Pound (ISBN 0-571-09135-0) is a book by Christine Brooke-Rose published by Faber and Faber in 1971. It is a study of the work of Ezra Pound, focusing in particular on The Cantos.

In Chapter Six, Brooke-Rose gives an explanation of the prosody of Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse as Pound would have understood it, based on Sievers' Theory of Anglo-Saxon Meter.