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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.
In Paris he befriended Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Morley Callaghan, and John Dos Passos, [7] establishing a particularly strong friendship with Pound. [8] Pound's influence extended to promoting the young author, placing six of Hemingway's poems in the magazine Poetry. [8]
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.
Ezra Pound (1885–1972), c. 1920. The expatriate American poet Ezra Pound recorded or composed hundreds of broadcasts in support of fascism for Italian radio during World War II and the Holocaust in Italy. Based in Italy since 1924, Pound collaborated with the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini and expressed support for Adolf Hitler.
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Modernists experimented with literary form and expression, adhering to Ezra Pound's maxim to "Make it new". [1] The modernist literary movement was driven by a conscious desire to overturn traditional modes of representation and express the new sensibilities of their time. [ 2 ]
Opening page of the first American edition, published 1933. 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.
Pound subsequently refers to the parable in two essays: "The Teacher's Mission" [5] and "Mr Housman at Little Bethel". [6] Both were republished in The Literary Essays of Ezra Pound [7] and reference Agassiz without including details of the parable. "The Teacher's Mission" in particular provides a straightforward explanation of how Pound wished ...