Intertext in E. Pound’s Poem The Cantos: Literary Sources in the Images of the Other World

Abstract

The article examines a fragment of Canto XVI from The Cantos in the aspect of intertectuality. The author of the article examines the mention in the work of E. Pound of personalities – D. Alighieri, Blessed Augustine W. Blake – whose works are somehow connected with the theme of the afterlife. The borrowing of images and ideas from their works is analyzed, along with Virgil's "Aeneid", allusions to the VI book of which are also contained in the lines under study. The influence of these works on the general concept of the afterlife in Pound's poem is noted, as well as the opposition of the traditional hierarchical system of the other world, reflected in Dante's work, and Blake's pre-romantic fantasy connecting the images of Hell and Paradise.