Cantos

The recent news that Dan Simmons 'Hyperion Cantos is being adapted for the silver screen is welcome, even as we're sceptical about the final result.

May 2008 2008

I'm super excited about this - the Hyperion Cantos is my all time fav series … however, I wonder if they will only do the first two?

Dan Simmons's Hyperion Sci-Fi Series Being Adapted by Warner Bros « FirstShowing.net 2008

The recent news that Dan Simmons 'Hyperion Cantos is being adapted for the silver screen is welcome, even as we're sceptical about the final result.

MIND MELD: Stories Hollywood Should Film 2008

When Ezra Pound called the Cantos “a poem containing history,” he exempted his poem itself from history, and the second sense of “containing” applies as well: the Cantos are a kind of quarantine of the past.

The Question of Beauty 2009

Attempting to expand his horizons, he proposed to Taylor that he might write "a long connected poem in Cantos" (CL 83).

Like 1999

The Cantos is the "tale of the tribe" and the tribe is the human race.

Aoi! Kearns, George 1976

Ezra Pound called his own epic "Cantos" "a poem containing history," and Virgil's epic is, as every Latin student remembers, the roll call of Roman, especially Augustan, glory.

An Epic Undertaking William Spiegelman 2008

Ezra Pound called his own epic "Cantos" "a poem containing history," and Virgil's epic is, as every Latin student remembers, the roll call of Roman, especially Augustan, glory.

An Epic Undertaking 2008

Mr. Harrison quotes a line from Ezra Pound's "Cantos": "I lost my center fighting the world" -- as an emblematic statement of Western modernity that "tells us more about the age than about the artist."

Paradox Among the Petals Jonathan Rosen 2008

Ezra Pound called his own epic "Cantos" "a poem containing history," and Virgil's epic is, as every Latin student remembers, the roll call of Roman, especially Augustan, glory.

An Epic Undertaking 2007