Fill in the blank. Written over the course of his life, Ezra Pound's ..... is an examination of the human desire for knowledge and understanding in an inchoate modern landscape ?

Correct answer: C. "The Cantos"

A. "The Sun Also Rises"
B. "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley"
C. "The Cantos"
D. "To the Lighthouse"

Explanation

Ezra Pound’s The Cantos was composed over much of his lifetime and combines history, economics, politics, myth, and culture in a difficult search for order and understanding. The other titles belong to Hemingway, Joyce, and Virginia Woolf.

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