The Tale of the Tribe: Ezra Pound and the Modern Verse Epic

by Michael André Bernstein

Michael Andre Bernstein offers a systematic analysis of the tradition of modern epic poetry--its different structural problems and their diverse but inter-related solutions, and considers issues central to contemporary literary and philosophical theory.

336 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

Michael André Bernstein was Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellow, and winner of the Koret Israel Prize who made prolific contributions to the field of literary criticism. His novel, Conspirators, was selected as one of the three finalists for the 2004 Reform Jewish Prize for fiction, was named one of the 25 best novels of the year by the Los Angeles Times, and was shortlisted for the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize.