The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound loved to jump, fromidea to idea, fromculture to culture, fromlyric
to epic.Whether on the tennis court or in the salon, he remained energized by
ideas and action. He was also outspoken and insistent: “I have never known
anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible,” Pound told Margaret Anderson
in 1917 and he fulfilled this dicta completely (SL 111). His agenda as a poet,
translator, editor, anthologist, letter-writer, essayist and provocateur was clear,
his plan precise: “Man

The Cambridge Introduction Nathaniel Hawthorne

Born on the Fourth of July in 1804, Nathaniel Hawthorne ranks with Herman
Melville, Henry James, and Mark Twain among the best nineteenth-century
American male novelists. Hawthorne grew up in Salem, Massachusetts, and
Puritan historyprovidedhimwith the backgroundformanyof his later fictional
wor

The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Beckett

A generation after his death, Samuel Beckett remains one of the giants of
twentieth-century literature and drama. More troubling for his critics, he is
also one of the last century’s most potent literary myths. Like other ‘modernists’,
he has a reputation for obscurity and diYculty, yet despite this his work
permeates our culture in unique ways. The word ‘Beckettian’ resonates even
amongst those who know little Beckett. It evokes a bleak vision of life
leavened by mordant humour

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Cambridge Preliminary English Test 7 - Audio CD1

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