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Part 1 The writer and his setting: biographical background - "A man onwhom the sun has gone down", "Born in a half savage country", "This damn'dprofession of writing", "Drinking the tone of things", "Full impetus ofvehement will", "Absract years", "A blown husk that is finished"; literary,cultural and political background - wearing masks, making it new - the "isms"of Modernism, the Chinese connection - language, poetry, philosophy, economicpolitics, sexual politics. Part 2 Critical survey: personae, imagism inpractics, Cathay - homage to Sextus Propertius, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, theCantos, the language of the Cantos, aspects of the Cantos. Part 3 Referencesection: brief biographies, gazetteer, bibliography, further reading.