Ezra Pound
- Ezra Pound: BritannicaEzra Pound, in full Ezra Loomis Pound, (born October 30, 1885, Hailey, Idaho, U.S.—died November 1, 1972, Venice, Italy), 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...
- Ezra Pound: Poetry FoundationEzra 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 exchange between the United States and Europe, and contributed to important literary movements.
Research & Reference
- Ezra Pound: BiographyPoet Ezra Pound studied literature and languages in college and in 1908 left for Europe, where he published several successful books of poetry. Pound advanced a "modern" movement in English and American literature. His pro-Fascist broadcasts in Italy during World War II led to his arrest and confinement until 1958...
- Ezra Pound: Yale UniversityEzra Loomis Pound was born in 1885 in Hailey, Idaho; he was raised in Wyncotte, near Philadelphia, PA. As a young man, Pound moved to Europe, where he lived for the rest of his life...
- Pound, Ezra: Credo ReferenceBorn in Hailey, Idaho, Ezra Loomis Pound from his earliest years exhibited a gift for languages, acquiring in the course of his life Latin, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French (including Provençal), Chinese, and Japanese; he translated poetry from all of these. An expatriate who lived only occasionally in the United States from 1909 to 1958, Pound was a central figure among modernists. His poetry, his immense learning, his theories of composition, his encouragement of other experimentalists, his affectations, and his eccentric, disturbing political beliefs influenced a generation and earned him the admiration, gratitude, and exasperation of his peers and those who came after him...
Ezra Pound: Canto I: The American Poet Reads his Work
- Ezra Pound: Canto I: The American Poet Reads his WorkBreaking a vow of silence, Ezra Pound reads his Canto I of 1917 to friends at lunch during the Gian-Carlo Menotti’s Spoleto Festival in 1967.
Author's Works & Perspectives
Ezra Pound: Poems and Translations (LOA #144)
Here in one volume is the biggest and best collection of Pound's poetry (excepting his long poem The Cantos) and translations ever assembled. Ranging from the text of the handmade first collection Hilda's Book (a gift to the poet H.D.) to his late translations of Horace, and containing dozens of items previously unavailable, Poems and Translations reveals the diversity and richness of a body of work marked by daring invention and resonant music. In such early volumes as Ripostes, Cathay, Lustra, and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley--as surely as in his later magisterial versions of The Confucian Odes and the Sophoclean dramas Women of Trachis and Elektra--Pound followed his own directive to "make it new," opening fresh formal pathways while exploring the most ancient traditions. Before, during, and after the controversies and catastrophes of his public career (culminating in his long residence in a Washington mental hospital while under indictment for treason), Pound remained capable of rare technical brilliance and indelible lyricism. Here are the lush early lyrics, echoing Browning and the Troubadours; the chiseled free verse of such masterpieces as "The Return," "Near Perigord," and "Homage to Sextus Propertius"; the dazzling translations that led Eliot to call Pound "the inventor of Chinese poetry for our time." The Chinese verse translations are supplemented by Pound's versions of the Confucian prose texts--The Analects, The Great Digest, and The Unwobbling Pivot--which he saw as crucial to his literary aims. An extensive chronology offers guidance to Pound's tumultuous life, and detailed notes clarify the many recondite allusions.
Ezra Pound As Literary Critic
Bringing some of the insights of modern critical theory to bear on a great deal of information about Pound's activities as a literary critic (some of it made available only recently), K.K. Ruthven provides a provocative re-reading of a major modernist writer who dominated the discourse of modernism.
The Poetry of Ezra Pound
This pioneering study did much to rehabilitate Ezra Pound's reputation after a long period of critical hostility and neglect. Published in 1951, it was the first comprehensive examination of the Cantos and other major works that would strongly influence the course of contemporary poetry.