CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Prologue -- 1 From the Continent to England, 1889-1925 -- Musical Empathy -- Political Aesthetics -- European Vortex -- This Hulme Business -- 2 Ezra Pound, 1908-1920 -- Negotiations -- Early Cantos: Auditing the Tradition -- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -- 3 Wyndham Lewis: L'Entre Deux Guerres -- Untuning the Word -- The Failure of Art -- The Art of Failure -- 4 Ezra Pound, 1921-1939 -- Resuming the Cantos: Eliot, Dada, Major Form -- Making Friends with the Enemy -- States of Excess -- Epilogue -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.