Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound (1885-1972) is one of the most influential, and most controversial poets of the twentieth-century. He is a major figure in 'modernist' literature - that is, experimental literature written during the first part of the twentieth century, renowned for his remarkable knowledge of poetic forms, his experiments in style, and his interest in world literatures. He is best known for the group he founded in 1913, which he named 'Imagism', and for his long poem, The Cantos, which he began around 1915 and left unfinished at his death in 1972.
Pound was born in 1885 in Hailey, Idaho, and he grew up in Philadelphia. At the University of Pennsylvania and Hamilton College, he studied Romance literatures, and planned to write a doctoral dissertation on the seventeenth-century Spanish playwright, Lope de Vega. Instead, he moved to London in 1908, to sit at the feet of W.B. Yeats, he later said, whom he considered the greatest living poet. His early verse shows the influence of the Victorian poet Robert Browning, and the late pre-Raphaelite poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as Yeats and the medieval poets he'd studied at university: the Provençal troubadours…
Please note. The work of Ezra Pound is still in copyright so we cannot include any of it here. Instead, you will find in this collection some ebooks by authors that inspired Pound, as described in the essay.
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| # | Resource Title | Description | Contributor |
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| 11 | Poems and ballads | London : John Camden Hotten | |
| 12 | The Ring and the Book | ||
| 13 | Dramatic Romances | ||
| 14 | Dramatic Lyrics | ||
| 15 | Paracelsus | ||
| 16 | Ezra Pound | Ezra Pound (1885-1972) is one of the… | Rebecca Beasley |
| 17 | Ezra Pound (lecture) | Lecture by Professor Langdon Hammer given as part of Open Yale courses, 'engl 310: Modern Poetry'.… | Langdon Hammer |
| 18 | Modernism | Ezra Pound’s maxim, ‘Make it new’ (‘Canto LIII’) is often quoted as a succinct summary of modernism… | Rebecca Beasley |
| 19 | Ezra Pound | Dr Rebecca Beasley explains why we should read Pound, someone she considers as the central figure… | Rebecca Beasley |
| 20 | Ezra Pound | Dr Rebecca Beasley explains why we should read Pound, someone she considers as the central figure… | Rebecca Beasley |