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Arno Breker. Arno Breker (19 July 1900 – 13 February 1991) was a German sculptor who is best known for his public works in Nazi Germany, where they were endorsed by the authorities as the antithesis of degenerate art. He was made official state sculptor, and exempted from military service. [1]
Ezra Pound. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate 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. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem ...
The Cantos. The Cantos is a long modernist poem by Ezra Pound, written in 109 canonical sections in addition to a number of drafts and fragments added as a supplement at the request of the poem's American publisher, James Laughlin. Most of it was written between 1915 and 1962, although much of the material in the first three cantos was ...
Pound, Ezra (1911), "I Gather the Limbs of Osiris, I: The Seafarer", The New Age, 10 (5): 107; Faust, Cosette; Thompson, Stith (1918), Old English Poems, Chicago: Scott, Foresman, pp. 68–71. Introduction notes the book is designed to "meet the needs of that ever-increasing body of students who cannot read the poems in their original form, but ...
Phanopoeia or phanopeia is defined as "a casting of images upon the visual imagination," [1] throwing the object (fixed or moving) on to the visual imagination. In the first publication of these three types, Pound refers to phanopoeia as "imagism." Phanopoeia can be translated without much difficulty, according to Pound.
The Spirit of Romance. The Spirit of Romance is a 1910 book of literary criticism by the poet Ezra Pound. It is based on lectures he delivered at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London between 1908 and 1909 and deals with a variety of European literatures. As with Pound's later, unfinished poem The Cantos, the book follows "a pattern, at once ...
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. The work begins with the "Parable of the sunfish ...
Ezra Pound 's Cathay, published by Elkin Mathews, London, April 1915. 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 ...