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Pound photographed in 1913 by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II.
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Le Testament de Villon is an opera composed in 1923 by the American poet Ezra Pound, with assistance from George Antheil. [1] It is based on Le Testament , a collection of poems written by François Villon in 1461.
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley addresses Pound's alleged failure as a poet. F. R. Leavis considered it "quintessential autobiography." [2]Speaking of himself in the third person, Pound criticises his earlier works as attempts to "wring lilies from the acorn", that is to pursue aesthetic goals and art for art's sake in a rough setting, America, which he calls "a half-savage country".
Cathay (1915) is a collection of classical Chinese poetry translated into English by modernist poet Ezra Pound based on Ernest Fenollosa's notes that came into Pound's possession in 1913. At first Pound used the notes to translate Noh plays and then to translate Chinese poetry to English, despite a complete lack of knowledge of the Chinese ...
ABC of Reading [1] is a book by the 20th-century Imagist poet Ezra Pound published in 1934. In it, Pound sets out an approach by which one may come to appreciate and understand literature (focusing primarily on poetry). Despite its title the text can be considered as a guide to writing poetry.
This is a list of persons, places, events, etc. that feature in Ezra Pound's The Cantos, a long, incomplete poem in 120 sections, each of which is a canto. It is a book-length work written between 1915 and 1962, widely considered to present formidable difficulties to the reader.
Robert Stark notes that "he rejects many of the conventionally poetic qualities of his earliest verse" claiming that Pound attempted for a sort of "literary barbarianism". [3] Contemporary reviews, such as in Punch , noted (referring collectively to A Quinzaine , A Lume Spento , Exultations, and Personae ) that "[Pound's] verse is the most ...