The Cantos, 1930/1934

2013 ◽  
pp. 308-337
Keyword(s):  
The Cantos

Beckett's Early Verse and the Modernist Long Poem: A Study of ‘Enueg I’

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-213
Author(s):  
Sławomir Studniarz
Keyword(s):  
Long Poem ◽  
The Waste Land ◽  
Waste Land ◽  
Artistic Activity ◽  
Underlying Network ◽  
Experimental Works ◽  
The Cantos ◽  
Semantic Dimension ◽  
Psychological Dimensions

The premise of the article is the contention that Beckett studies have been focused too much on the philosophical, cultural and psychological dimensions of his established canon, at the expense of the artistry. That research on Beckett's work is issue-driven rather than otherwise, and the slender extant body of criticism specifically on his poetic achievements bears no comparison with the massive exploration of the other facets of Beckett's artistic activity. The critical neglect of Beckett's poetry may not be commensurate with the quality of his verse. And it is in the spirit of remedying this oversight that the present article is offered, focusing on ‘Enueg I’, a representative poem from Echo's Bones, which exhibits all the salient features of Beckett's early poetry. It is argued that Beckett's early verse display the twofold influence, that of the transatlantic Modernism of Eliot and Pound, and of French poetry, specifically the visionary and experimental works of Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and the surrealists. Furthermore, the article also demonstrates that ‘Enueg I’ testifies to Beckett's ambition to compose a complex long Modernist poem in the vein of The Waste Land or The Cantos. Beckett's ‘Enueg I’ has much in common with Eliot's exemplary disjunctive Modernist long poem. Both poems are premised on the acutely felt cultural crisis and display the similar tenor in their ending. Finally, they both close with the vision of the doomed and paralyzed world, and the prevalent sense of sterility and dissolution. In the subsequent analysis, which takes up the bulk of the article, careful attention is paid to the patterning of the verbal material, including also the most fundamental level, that of the arrangements of phonemes, with a view to uncovering the underlying network of sound patterns, which contributes decisively to the semantic dimension of the poem.

Prediction of 10-year and lifetime risk of cancer in individual patients with established cardiovascular disease, results from UCC-SMART and CANTOS

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (Supplement_2) ◽  
Author(s):  
C.C Van 't Klooster ◽  
P.M Ridker ◽  
N.R Cook ◽  
J.G.J.V Aerts ◽  
J Westerink ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Colorectal Cancer ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Lung Cancer ◽  
Cancer Risk ◽  
Prediction Models ◽  
Funding Source ◽  
Cancer Models ◽  
Total Cancer ◽  
The Cantos ◽  
Risk Of Cancer

Abstract Background As treatment for cardiovascular disease (CVD) has improved substantially over the last decades, more patients survive acute CVD manifestations and are at risk for developing cancer as well as recurrent CVD. Due to similar risk factors, including smoking and obesity, patients with established CVD are at higher risk for cancer. Objectives The aim of this study was to develop and externally validate prediction models for the estimation of 10-year and lifetime risk for total, colorectal, and lung cancer in patients with established CVD. Methods Data from patients with established CVD from the UCC-SMART prospective cohort study (N=7,280) were used for model development, and data from the CANTOS trial (N=9,322) were used for model validation. Predictors were selected based on previously published cancer risk prediction models or cancer risk factors, easy clinical availability, and availability in the derivation dataset (UCC-SMART cohort). A Fine and Gray competing risk-adjusted lifetime model was developed for total, colorectal, and lung cancer. Results Selected predictors were age, sex, smoking status, weight, height, alcohol use, antiplatelet use, diabetes mellitus, and C-reactive protein. External calibration for 4-year risks of the total cancer, colorectal cancer, and lung cancer models was good (Figure 1), and C-statistics were 0.63–0.74 in the CANTOS trial population. Median predicted lifetime risks in CANTOS were 26% (range 1%-52%) for total cancer, 4% (range 0%-13%) for colorectal cancer, and 5% (range 0%-37%) for lung cancer. Conclusions Lifetime and 10-year risk of cancer can be estimated with easy to measure variables in patients with established CVD, showing a wide distribution of predicted lifetime risks for total cancer and lung cancer. Using these lifetime models in clinical practice could increase understanding of cancer risk and aid in emphasizing healthy lifestyle changes. Figure 1. Calibration plots of cancer models Funding Acknowledgement Type of funding source: Public hospital(s). Main funding source(s): University Medical Center; Additional funding: CANTOS trial was funded by Novartis Pharmaceuticals.

Disordered haematopoiesis and cardiovascular disease: a focus on myelopoiesis

2018 ◽  
Vol 132 (17) ◽  
pp. 1889-1899 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dragana Dragoljevic ◽  
Marit Westerterp ◽  
Camilla Bertuzzo Veiga ◽  
Prabhakara Nagareddy ◽  
Andrew J. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Inflammatory Diseases ◽  
Genetic Evidence ◽  
Loss Of Function ◽  
Atherosclerotic Vascular Disease ◽  
Stem And Progenitor Cells ◽  
Anti Inflammatory ◽  
The Cantos ◽  
Inflammatory Milieu ◽  
Proliferative Advantage

Cardiovascular (CV) diseases (CVD) are primarily caused by atherosclerotic vascular disease. Atherogenesis is mainly driven by recruitment of leucocytes to the arterial wall, where macrophages contribute to both lipid retention as well as the inflammatory milieu within the vessel wall. Consequently, diseases which present with an enhanced abundance of circulating leucocytes, particularly monocytes, have also been documented to accelerate CVD. A host of metabolic and inflammatory diseases, such as obesity, diabetes, hypercholesteraemia, and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), have been shown to alter myelopoiesis to exacerbate atherosclerosis. Genetic evidence has emerged in humans with the discovery of clonal haematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP), resulting in a disordered haematopoietic system linked to accelerated atherogenesis. CHIP, caused by somatic mutations in haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs), consequently provide a proliferative advantage over native HSPCs and, in the case of Tet2 loss of function mutation, gives rise to inflammatory plaque macrophages (i.e. enhanced interleukin (IL)-1β production). Together with the recent findings of the CANTOS (Canakinumab Anti-inflammatory Thrombosis Outcomes Study) trial that revealed blocking IL-1β using Canakinumab reduced CV events, these studies collectively have highlighted a pivotal role of IL-1β signalling in a population of people with atherosclerotic CVD. This review will explore how haematopoiesis is altered by risk-factors and inflammatory disorders that promote CVD. Further, we will discuss some of the recent genetic evidence of disordered haematopoiesis in relation to CVD though the association with CHIP and suggest that future studies should explore what initiates HSPC mutations, as well as how current anti-inflammatory agents affect CHIP-driven atherosclerosis.

scholarly journals Aesthetic and Methodologic Resources of Ezra Pound’s Poetry

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (-) ◽  
pp. 88-103
Author(s):  
Gabriel C. Gherasim
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Literary Modernism ◽  
The Cantos

Abstract The study of The Cantos, one of the most complex and difficult works belonging to literary modernism makes possible, precisely due to this observation, the exploration of a series of characteristics and dimensions of Pound’s work that have either remained in a programmatic stage or should be revisited more closely in order for their meanings to be discerned. ‘Analyticity’ and ‘scientism’ can be considered relevant characteristics of Pound’s work, with both aesthetic and methodologic meanings. The present study aims at investigating these two dimensions of Pound’s poetry as they appear in the second and the fourth decades of the 20th century. In conclusion the question is whether Pound’s analyticity and scientism could still be considered valuable from an aesthetic or methodologic point of view.

Canakinumab for secondary prevention of coronary artery disease

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Ortega-Paz ◽  
Davide Capodanno ◽  
Dominick J Angiolillo
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Prevention ◽  
Outcome Study ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
Effective Prevention ◽  
New Era ◽  
Development Status ◽  
The Cantos ◽  
Artery Disease ◽  
Effective Prevention Strategies

Cardiovascular disease manifestations (CVD) are the world's leading cause of death, and their impact on morbidity requires effective prevention strategies of recurrent adverse events. For decades, inflammation has been proposed as a key promoter for atherosclerosis and its complications. However, studies on the use of drugs to target the excess inflammation in CVD are limited. In 2017, the Canakinumab Anti-inflammatory Thrombosis Outcome Study (CANTOS) trial confirmed the key role of inflammation on atherosclerotic disease. Canakinumab is a monoclonal antibody that blocks an inflammatory pathway mediated by IL-1β. The results of the CANTOS trial opened a new era of investigating new therapeutics targeting inflammation for CVD secondary prevention. This review presents the canakinumab's pharmacology, current clinical development status and regulatory perspectives.

Legend of Constancie’. Although that virtue is Shepheardes Calender was thoroughly glossed by named only once before, to describe Guyon and his E.K., and his Dreames, as he told Harvey with some Palmer as they prepare to enter the Bower of Bliss (II pride, had ‘growen by means of the Glosse, (running xii 38.9), it is implicit in each virtue. Its importance continually in maner of a Paraphrase) full as great as is indicated in Elyot’s Gouernour 3.19: ‘that man my Calendar’ (Spenser 1912:612). In glossing The which in childehode is brought up in sondry vertues, Faerie Queene, I have taken E.K. as my guide, shar-if eyther by nature, or els by custome, he be nat ing his apprehension that without glosses ‘many induced to be all way constant and stable, so that he excellent and proper devises both in wordes and meue nat for any affection, griefe, or displeasure, all matter would passe in the speedy course of reading, his vertues will shortely decaye’. It seems inevitable either as unknown, or as not marked’ (Epistle). (For also that this legend, appropriately foreshortened, the historical practice that informs his glossing, see should be the seventh and final book, for that num-Tribble 1993:12–17, 72–87, and Snare 1995.) I ber heralds the poet’s day of rest to round out his six limit my annotations chiefly to words that need to be days of labour. On seven as the number of constancy explicated for readers today, selecting their meanings and mutability, see A. Fowler 1964:58. Such tradi-from the entirely indispensable OED, though I tional number symbolism would seem to determine believe that, finally, most may be clarified by their the numbering of the cantos: vi for the days of cre-immediate context and by their use elsewhere in the ation evident in Mutabilitie’s reign; vii for Nature’s poem. For several reasons, I have avoided interpreta-orderly control over that reign; and viii for regenera-tion as much as possible. First, limitations of space tion and resurrection; see I viii Arg. 1–2n, Bieman do not give me any choice. Second, I agree with 1988:233–38, and headnote to VII viii. Hanna 1991:180 that the annotator who resorts to The fragmentary nature of the cantos, and their interpretation will ‘impose his being, in a double differences in form from the previous books, pre-attack, on the reader and on the text’. Third, I agree clude any understanding of their place in a poem that also with Krier 1994:72 that an annotator’s inter-fashions the virtues. One may only speculate that they pretation is ‘premature and deracinated, especially provide a recapitulation or coda to certain themes for pedagogical purposes’. Fourth, I believe that any in the previous books, such as mutability; or ‘a interpretation of the poem – including my own – is detached retrospective commentary on the poem as Procrustean: a matter of finding several points com-a whole’ (Blissett 1964:26); or the allegorical ‘core’ mon to the poem and some other discourse, and of a book on constancy (Lewis 1936:353). Or that then aligning them, using whatever force is needed they constitute ‘one of the great philosophical poems to spin one’s own tale. All ‘readings’ of the poem of the language’ (Kermode 1965:225) that may be without exception are misreadings, at best partial read as an eschatology (Zitner 1968:11), or as a readings, if only because they are translations. At the theodicy (Oram 1997:290–300), or as an Ovidian same time I recognize that I am interpreting the brief epic (Holahan 1976, C. Burrow 1988:117–19) poem in drawing the reader’s attention to the mean-that treats the dialectical relationship of Nature and ings of its words, and adding such commentary as I Mutabilitie (Nohrnberg 1976:741–44), or the think represents a consensus on how the poem may nature of time itself (Waller 1994:181–85). be understood today. Yet I ask only that readers appreciate Spenser’s art in using words. Although his Annotations

2014 ◽  
pp. 39-39
Keyword(s):  
Faerie Queene ◽  
Number Symbolism ◽  
Double Differences ◽  
Dialectical Relationship ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Nature Of Time ◽  
The Cantos ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Shepheardes Calender ◽  
Historical Practice
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