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But, while this may represent the origin of the term's usage in modern English, the word "logopoeia" itself was not coined by Pound; it already existed in classical Greek. [ 3 ] Logopoeia is the most recent kind of poetry and does not translate well, according to Pound [ citation needed ] , though he also claimed it was abundant in the poetry ...
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.
Isabel Pound was unhappy in Hailey and took Ezra with her to New York in 1887 when he was 18 months old. [11] Her husband followed and found a job as an assayer at the Philadelphia Mint . After a move to 417 Walnut Street in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania , the family bought a six-bedroom house in 1893 at 166 Fernbrook Avenue, Wyncote . [ 5 ]
Signs in Action: Ideograms of Pound and Michaux (Red Dust Books, 1987) Weights and Measures/Poids et mesures (Ulysse Fin-de-Siècle, 1988) Editor. Ezra Pound: A Walking Tour in Southern France: Ezra Pound Among the Troubadours (New Directions, 1992) Ezra Pound: Poems & Translations (Library of America, 2003) Ezra Pound: The Pisan Cantos (New ...
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".
Ezra Pound (1885–1972), c. 1920. Jefferson and/or Mussolini: L'Idea Statale Fascism as I Have Seen It is a book by the American ex-patriate poet and fascist collaborator Ezra Pound. It was first published in 1935 by Stanley Nott Ltd in London. [1]
From 1911 until 1921, Pound contributed to The New Age, a socialist journal in London run by A. R. Orage. [15] He came to believe that capitalism had caused World War I. [16] In 1918 he met C. H. Douglas in the New Age office and became interested in Douglas's ideas about social credit, a halfway house between capitalism and socialism. [17]
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 ...