Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and The Cantos.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Hailey
- Educated at
- University of PennsylvaniaHamilton College
- Awards
- 🏆 Bollingen Prize🏆 Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"But the one thing you shd. not do is suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY."
"It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work."
"The author's conviction on this day of the New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."
"One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar…"
"AT ABOUT THIS POINT the weak-hearted reader usually sits down in the road, removes his shoes and weeps that he 'is a bad linguist' or that he or she can't possibly learn all those languages. One has t…"
"A pity that poets have used symbol and metaphor and no man learned anything from them for their speaking in figures"
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1885
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Birth1972
Died
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