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In a Station of the Metro" is an Imagist poem by Ezra Pound published in April 1913 [1] in the literary magazine Poetry. [2] In the poem, Pound describes a moment in the underground metro station in Paris in 1912; he suggested that the faces of the individuals in the metro were best put into a poem not with a description but with an "equation".
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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.
Ezra Pound, taken in London on 22 October 1913 by Alvin Langdon Coburn. It became the frontispiece of Pound's Lustra (1916). It was also published in Coburn's More Men of Mark. New York: Knopf, and London: Duckworth & Co., 1922. OCLC 469521983.
September 8 – W. B. Yeats' poem "September 1913" is published in The Irish Times during the Dublin Lock-out. [5] November 14 – Rabindranath Tagore is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. December 15 – Ezra Pound (in London) writes to James Joyce (in Trieste) requesting some of his recent poems for The Egoist. [6]
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 ...
Ripostes of Ezra Pound is a collection of 25 poems by the American poet Ezra Pound, submitted to Swift and Co. in London in February 1912, and published by them in October that year. [1] It was published in the United States in July 1913 by Small, Maynard and Co of Boston. [2]
A 1913 photograph of Ezra Pound, one of the most influential modernist poets. The roots of English-language poetic modernism can be traced back to the works of a number of earlier writers, including Walt Whitman, whose long lines approached a type of free verse, the prose poetry of Oscar Wilde, Robert Browning's subversion of the poetic self, Emily Dickinson's compression and the writings of ...