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Omar Shakespear Pound (10 September 1926 – 2 March 2010) [1] was an Anglo-American writer, teacher, and translator. The son of Ezra Pound and his wife Dorothy Shakespear , Pound was the author of Arabic & Persian Poems (1970) and co-author of Wyndham Lewis: A Descriptive Bibliography (1978).
February 19 - American poet Ezra Pound, at this time incarcerated in a psychiatric institution, is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University provoking a storm of criticism because of his pro-Fascist activities before and during World War II.
Ezra Pound: Selected Poems, edited by T. S. Eliot, London, [15] American poet living in Europe; A Draft of the Cantos 17–27 [14] Edward Arlington Robinson, Sonnets, 1889–1927 [14] Carl Sandburg, Good Morning, America [14] Allen Tate, Mr. Pope and Other Poems, [14] including "Ode to the Confederate Dead" Amos Wilder, Arachne: poems, Yale ...
Hugh Kenner, The Poetry of Ezra Pound, highly influential in causing a re-assessment of Pound's poetry (New Directions), criticism; Robert Lowell, The Mills of the Kavanaughs, New York: Harcourt, Brace [16] James Merrill, First Poems [13] Marianne Moore, Collected Poems, [14] winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for ...
Cookson also edited a volume of Pound's Selected Prose (1973), and published A Guide to The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1985, 2001). On Cookson's death a "Celebratory Issue" of Agenda (Vol. 39, No. 4 (2003)) was published in which his successor as editor of the journal, Patricia McCarthy, described him as "a man who sacrificed his life for poetry and ...
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]
Comparatively, a volume titled "selected poems" often includes a small but not definitive selection of poems by a poet or editor drawn from several of the poet's collections. [2] A poetry anthology differs in concept because it draws together works from multiple poets chosen by the anthology's editor.
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.