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The Ballad of the Goodly Fere is a poem by Ezra Pound, first published in 1909.The narrator is Simon Zelotes, speaking after the Crucifixion about his memories of Jesus (the "goodly fere"—Old English for "companion"—of the title).
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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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]
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 ...