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Apr 2, 2014 · (1885-1972) Who Was Ezra Pound? Poet Ezra Pound studied literature and languages in college and in 1908 left for Europe, where he published several successful books of poetry. Pound advanced...
Ezra Pound was an influential poet and critic of the early 20th century, known for his experimentation with language. However, his controversial political views and support of fascism led to his arrest and confinement in a mental institution for over a decade.
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.
Ezra Pound - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. Ezra Pound is generally considered the poet most responsible for defining and promoting a modernist aesthetic in poetry.
A poet, critic, translator, and literary force of the modernist era, Ezra Pound was born in Idaho in 1885. He grew up in Pennsylvania and was educated at Hamilton College and the University of Pennsylvania, where he met William Carlos Williams and H.D. (Hilda Doolittle).
Ezra Pound - Imagism, Modernism, Poetry: Unsettled by the slaughter of World War I and the spirit of hopelessness he felt was pervading England after its conclusion, Pound decided to move to Paris, publishing before he left two of his most important poetical works, “Homage to Sextus Propertius,” in the book Quia Pauper Amavi (1919), and ...
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?
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