Ezra Pound

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in Hailey, Idaho, The United States

October 30, 1885

died

November 01, 1972

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male

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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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	Selected Poems 3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 3,812 ratings — published 1957 — 7 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cantos 3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 2,548 ratings — published 1964 — 15 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	ABC of Reading 3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 744 ratings — published 1934 — 8 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Personæ: The Shorter Poems by Ezra Pound, Lea Baechler (Editor), A. Walton Litz 4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 453 ratings — published 1971 — 11 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pisan Cantos by Ezra Pound, Richard Sieburth 4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 211 ratings — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Literary Essays of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot (Editor) 3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poems and Translations (Library of America #144) by Ezra Pound, Richard Sieburth (Editor) 3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 2003	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Guide to Kulchur 3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 1968 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ezra Pound: Translations 4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1953 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Collected Early Poems by Ezra Pound, Michael King (Editor), Louis L. Martz (Illustrator) 3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1976 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Literature is news that stays news.”
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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.”
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