The Cantos

The Cantos is Ezra Pound’s long poem, discussed in I, robot? AI and consciousness through Mary de Rachewiltz’s translation and defense of her father. The source says Pound continued work on the poem while institutionalized and that Mary produced the first dual-language English-Italian version in 1985.

In this source, The Cantos is not only a literary object. It is the work through which translation, family loyalty, modernist achievement, and ideological compromise become entangled.

Connections

• Ezra Pound - author.
• Mary de Rachewiltz - translator and daughter.
• Ideologically Compromised Art - interpretation problem created by the work’s authorial context.