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A Lume Spento consists of 45 poems. [9]A Lume Spento is replete with allusions to works which had influenced Pound, including Provençal and late Victorian literatures. Pound adopts Robert Browning's technique of dramatic monologues, and as such he "appears to speak in the voices of historical or legendary figures". [5]
In August 1908 Pound moved to London, carrying 60 copies of A Lume Spento. [51] English poets such as Maurice Hewlett, Rudyard Kipling, and Alfred Tennyson had made a particular kind of Victorian verse—stirring, pompous, and propagandistic—popular. According to modernist scholar James Knapp, Pound rejected the idea of poetry as "versified ...
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 ...
The title of the collection, A Lume Spento, is a reference to the third canto of Dante's Purgatorio, is an allusion to the death of Manfred, King of Sicily, and his funeral procession in the earlier work.
A Lume Spento (1908) - Ezra Pound; Lunch Poems (1964) - Frank O'Hara; Lustra (1916) - Ezra Pound; Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (1798) - William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Main Street and Other Poems (1917) - Joyce Kilmer; A Man in the Divided Sea (1946) - Thomas Merton; The Man with the Blue Guitar (1937) - Wallace Stevens
William Stanley Braithwaite, The House of Falling Leaves with Other Poems [8]; Ezra Pound, American poet published in the United Kingdom and Italy: . A Lume Spento, Pound's first poetry collection (the title translates as "a dim light") published at his own expense in Venice
"The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter" is a four stanza poem, written in free verse, and loosely translated by Ezra Pound from a poem by Chinese poet Li Bai, called Chánggān Xíng, or Changgan song.
Visits to St Elizabeths is a poem by Elizabeth Bishop modelled on the English nursery rhyme This is the house that Jack built.The poem refers to the confinement between 1945 and 1958 of Ezra Pound in St Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D.C.