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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate 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.
1. ‘ In a Station of the Metro ’. This is probably the most famous Imagist poem ever written: in just two lines, Pound seeks to capture the fleeting impression of seeing a crowd of people at the Paris Metro, and puts into practice some of his key imagist principles.
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.
A brief introduction to a modernist epic Ezra Pound’s colossal work of modernist poetry, The Cantos, runs to nearly 800 pages and took him over half his life to write – and even then, he never finished it.
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...
Ezra Pound. Track 73 on Emily Dickinson. The most famous poem (1913) from the early twentieth-century movement known as Imagism. According to Pound, it was inspired by a moment he experienced...
Jan 17, 2017 · By 1913, when Pound wrote ‘A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste’, Imagism had made a splash in literary circles, and Pound wrote this short essay (or manifesto) largely to address and correct certain misconceptions surrounding the movement, which H. D., Aldington, F. S. Flint, and Pound himself were coming to exemplify.
Feb 26, 2022 · As in Pound’s prose writing, the themes of economics, governance and culture are integral to the work’s content. Pound, and especially his greatest, lifelong work, The Cantos, have always been...
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...
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