Ezra Pound
Who is Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem, The Cantos (c. 1917–1962).Pound's contribution to poetry began in the early 20th century with his role in developing Imagism, a movement stressing precision and economy of language. Working in London as foreign editor of several American literary magazines, he helped discover and shape the work of contemporaries such as T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, and James Joyce. He was responsible for the 1914 serialization of Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the 1915 publicati...
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Ezra Pound Poems
- Rome
Ô nouveau venu qui cherche Rome à Rome
Et ne trouvez à Rome rien que vous ne puissiez appeler romain;
Arches usées et palais rendus communs
Seul le nom de Rome entre ces murs reste à la maison.
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- Rom
O du Neuling, der Rom in Rom sucht
Und finde in Rom nichts, was du als römisch bezeichnen kannst;
Alt getragene Bögen und gemeinsame Paläste
Roms Name allein innerhalb dieser Mauern bleibt zu Hause.
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- Roma
¡Oh tú, recién llegado que buscas Roma en Roma!
Y no encuentras en Roma nada que puedas llamar romano;
Arcos viejos y palacios hechos comunes
El nombre de Roma solo dentro de estos muros guarda su hogar.
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- Tenzone
Will people accept them?
(i.e. these songs).
As a timorous wench from a centaur
(or a centurion),
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- La Fraisne
For I was a gaunt, grave councillor
Being in all things wise, and very old,
But I have put aside this folly and the cold
That old age weareth for a cloak.
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Comments about Ezra Pound
- Erbhof: "i would agree with ezra pound’s statement that hamilton was 'the prime snot in all american history'"
what did pound mean by this?
- Narcheofuturist: really upset ezra pound didn’t get into calvinism instead of confucianism, could have been the most based timeline
- Hombremenguant6: alvin langdon coburn, vortograph of ezra pound, 1917.
- Khwalker4u: in a station of the metro
the apparition of these faces in the crowd; petals on a wet, black, bough. - haiku by american ezra pound
photo "apple blossoms" © kathleen walker
- Basedagrippa: little known poem of ezra pound depicting empire: an african potentate chained to a fountain before buckingham palace. dedicated to “my brother in chains bonga-bonga”. was pound a racist, or friend to all men?
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