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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.
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound, né à Hailey, alors dans le Territoire de l'Idaho, le 30 octobre 1885 et mort le 1 er novembre 1972 à Venise, est un poète, musicien et critique américain qui a fait partie du mouvement moderniste du début des années 1920 et qui est souvent rattaché à la Génération perdue.
Ezra Pound (born October 30, 1885, Hailey, Idaho, U.S.—died November 1, 1972, Venice, Italy) was an American poet and critic, a supremely discerning and energetic entrepreneur of the arts who did more than any other single figure to advance a “modern” movement in English and American literature.
Oct 12, 2022 · 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.
Apr 2, 2014 · Poet Ezra Pound authored more than 70 books and promoted many other now-famous writers, including James Joyce and T.S. Eliot.
In “A Retrospect” Pound presents his beliefs about what makes good poetry. The essay begins with the three principles of imagism, including “Direct treatment of the ‘thing’.” Pound defines “image” as “an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.”
Jul 11, 2016 · ‘In a Station of the Metro’, written by Ezra Pound in 1913, is the Imagist poem par excellence. In just two lines, Pound distils the entire manifesto for Imagism into a vivid piece of poetry, what T. E. Hulme had earlier called ‘dry, hard, classical verse’. But what does the poem mean, precisely?
Critic, poet, impresario, and propagandist, Ezra Pound (1885-1972) was one of the shaping forces of modernism, with connections to the era’s most influential writers of prose and poetry.
Modernist poet Ezra Pound played a central role in the Imagist and Vorticist movements. Vorticism, a pre–World War I movement led by British painter and writer Wyndham Lewis, sought to capture the mechanical dynamism of its age as well as the stillness at its core.
Emeritus Professor of English, University of Toledo, Ohio. Author of The Life of Ezra Pound; Reading the Cantos; and others.
