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The art form is filled to the brim and beyond with every imaginable idea under the sun, and throughout time, various poets have tried out just about everything. So, when ‘ In a Station of the Metro’ by Ezra Pound is introduced, it shouldn’t even be that surprising that what makes this particular poem stand out is that it is fourteen words ...
Ezra Pound. 1885-1972. Ezra Loomis Pound was born in 1885 in Hailey, Idaho; he was raised in Wyncotte, near Philadelphia, PA. As a young man, Pound moved to Europe, where he lived for the rest of his life. In 1908, while staying in Venice, Pound published his first book, A Lume Spento at his own expense. After settling in London Pound became ...
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (født 30. oktober 1885, død 1. november 1972 [1]) var en amerikansk digter, musiker og kritiker i udlændighed, og var en drivkraft i den modernistiske digtning i begyndelsen og midten af 1900-tallet. Kritikeren Hugh Kenner beskrev sit møde med Pound således: "I suddenly knew that I was in the presence of the center ...
Ezra Pound (1885-1972) [7119] Shoshan, Monkey Reaching for the Moon (c. 1910), courtesy of the print collection of Connecticut College, New London. Like T. S. Eliot, with whom he enjoyed a long friendship, Ezra Pound lived his early years in the United States but spent most of his life and career elsewhere.
Ezra Pound was an American expatriate poet, critic, and intellectual who became a defining figure of literary modernism in the early 20th century. Pound's work remains relevant today for its formal innovations, its engagement with tradition, and its exploration of themes like cultural decay and artistic creation.
Recently published: Pound's Correspondence with the Frobenius Institute; Ezra Pound Bibliography - last updated on May 15, 2024; The Cantos Project: new in-text annotation to cantos 53-64; Companion available cantos 1-52. New: searchable table of the Chinese characters in The Cantos in the main menu: Resources.
Ezra Pound is widely considered one of the most influential and most difficult poets of the 20th century; his contributions to Modernist poetry are enormous. He was an early champion of a number of avant-garde and Modernist poets, developed important channels of intellectual and aesthetic...
