Pound, Ezra (Vol. 3) - Pound, Ezra 1885–1972
Pound, Ezra 1885–1972
Pound was an American poet (who lived most of his life outside the United States) and literary advocate. Archibald MacLeish called Pound "the principal inventor of modern poetry." He is the "melior poet" of Eliot's dedication to The Waste Land and he exerted profound influence on Joyce and many other great modern writers. His discovery of Ernest Fenollosa and the Chinese ideogram led to his elaboration of Imagism, a tremendously influential poetic method that attempted "direct treatment of the 'thing' whether subjective or objective." His great work, The Cantos, occupies a central position in modern letters. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.)
Let us admit that [Pound's] initial approach is that of a major poet, that he goes to the ends of the earth and backward and forward in time, adding economics, history, philosophy, to literature and linguistics, to create his own framework, his own...
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