The
Companion
is a major contribution to the literary evaluation of Pound's great, but often bewildering and abstruse work,
The Cantos.
Available in a one-volume paperback edition for the first time, the
brings together in conveniently numbered glosses for each canto the most pertinent details from the vast body of work on the
Cantos
during the last thirty years. The
contains 10,421 separate glosses that include translations from eight languages, identification of all proper names and works, Pound's literary and historical allusions, and other exotica, with exegeses based upon Pound's sources. Also included is a supplementary bibliography of works on Pound, newly updated, and an alphabetized index to
The Cantos
.