Women of Trachis. A Version by Ezra Pound.

SOPHOKLES [SOPHOCLES] (circa 497-406 BC), [POUND, Ezra, translator].

New York, NY: New Directions, 1957. [Ancient Greek Drama in Translation] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 66 [4]. Publisher's black cloth with grey titles to spine. With the plain typographic dust-jacket, priced at $3.00. Some minor damp staining to endpapers and binding. Jacket heavily worn, with chipping and closed tears to edges. Good. Originally performed on BBC Radio in April 1954, this is an 'Americanisation' of the play which Pound considered "the highest peak of Greek sensibility." Also including notes from Denis Goacher, Peter Whigham and Riccardo M. Degli Uberti, attempting to refute Pound's associations with anti-Semitism and Fascism. Item #58180

Price: £50.00