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A Lume Spento consists of 45 poems. 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".
- Ezra Pound
- 1908
Sep 3, 2010 · A lume spento, and other early poems Bookreader Item Preview ... Gallup, D. Pound (1983 ed.), A83a Scandate 20101013034925 Scanner scribe2.sfdowntown.archive.org ...
for 12 years. He wanted to meet W.B. Yeats, the greatest living poet in Pound's view, and they became close friends, although Yeats was older by 20 years. He had sent Yeats a copy of A Lume Spento, and Yeats had replied that he found it charming. Pound told William Carlos Williams, a friend from university: "London,
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In 1908, Pound published his first volumes, A Lume Spento [With Tapers Quenched], A Quinzaine for This Yule, and Personae [Masks]. Content to live outside his native land, in September 1909, he settled in a sparse front room in London's Kensington section; five years later, he married Dorothy Shakespear.
Jan 2, 2008 · A Lume Spento. The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.08: English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century , 1900-1945. Pound spent some months of 1908 living in Venice and put together his first collection of poems, some of which had been written before he left the USA. He financed the publication himself.
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A Lume Spento} Unfortunately, the answer provided by the date on the manuscript remains ambiguous because of Pound's note in pencil on the second page of the typescript "Contine for p. 30 A.L.S." [A Lume Spento], "Vana" appears on p. 30 of A Lume Spento so this note at least was post-publication, just as the text appears to be. Thus the date which
