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Ezra Pound Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Ezra Pound books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Ezra Pound series? Start with "A Lume Spento" (1908) and follow publication order through all 41 books.
The complete Ezra Pound reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
A Lume Spento
1908
A Quinzaine For This Yule
1908
Exultations
1909
Personae
1909
The Spirit of Romance
1910
Provenca
1910
Canzoni
1911
Ripostes (With: T.E. Hulme)
1912
The Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti
1912
Cathay (With: Ernest Fenollosa,Li Bai)
1915
Lustra
1916
Certain Noble Plays of Japan
1916
Noh, Or, Accomplishment: A Study of the Classical Stage of Japan (With: Ernest Fenollosa)
1917
Pavannes and Divagations
1918
Quia Pauper Amavi
1919
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
1920
Umbra
1920
Instigations: Together with An Essay on the Chinese Written Character (With: Ernest Fenollosa)
1920
Poems 1918-21 Including Three Portraits And Four Cantos
1921
The Waste Land
1922
Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony, with Supplementary Notes
1924
Selected Poems of Ezra Pound
1928
A Draft of XXX Cantos
1930
How to Read
1931
ABC of Economics & Social Credit: An Impact
1933
ABC of Reading
1934
Make It New: Essays
1935
Polite Essays
1937
Guide to Kulchur
1938
The Pisan Cantos
1949
Confucius: The Great Digest, The Unwobbling Pivot, The Analects
1951
The Classic Anthology Defined By Confucius
1954
Drafts & Fragments Of Cantos Cx Cxvii
1968
The Cantos of Ezra Pound
1970
Selected Prose 1909-1956
1973
Selected Poems, 1908-1969
1975
Ezra Pound and music: the complete criticism
1976
Ezra Pound Speaking: Radio Speeches of World War II
1978
Pound's Cavalcanti: An Edition of the Translations, Notes, and Essays
1983
Ezra Pound: Poems
1983
Ezra Pound's Economic Correspondence, 1933-1940
2007
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