Ezra Pound

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October 30, 1885 in Hailey, Idaho, The United States

died

November 01, 1972

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Poetry, Nonfiction

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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet, critic and intellectual who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in early-to-mid 20th century poetry.

Pound's The Cantos contains music and bears a title that could be translated as The Songs—although it never is. Pound's ear was tuned to the motz et sons of troubadour poetry where, as musicologist John Stevens has noted, "melody and poem existed in a state of the closest symbiosis, obeying the same laws and striving in their different media for the same sound-ideal - armonia."

In his essays, Pound wrote of rhythm as "the hardest quality of a man's style to counterfeit." He challenged young poets to train their ear with translation work to learn how the choice of words and the...more

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Average rating: 3.95 · 6,516 ratings · 360 reviews · 183 distinct works

	Selected Poems 3.83 avg rating — 1,832 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Cantos 3.87 avg rating — 1,461 ratings — published 1964 — 13 editions	My rating:
	ABC of Reading 4.00 avg rating — 562 ratings — published 1951 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Personæ: The Shorter Poems by Ezra Pound, Lea Baechler (Editor), A. Walton Litz 4.09 avg rating — 327 ratings — published 1971 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Pisan Cantos by Ezra Pound, Richard Sieburth 4.15 avg rating — 146 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Literary Essays of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot (Editor) 3.96 avg rating — 135 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Ezra Pound: Poems and Translations by Ezra Pound, Richard Sieburth (Editor) 4.05 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Guide to Kulchur 3.76 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 1968 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Collected Early Poems by Ezra Pound, Michael King (Editor), Louis L. Martz (Illustrator) 3.98 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1976 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Translations of Pound 4.26 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1953 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
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“Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
― Ezra Pound

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“There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight”
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