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Ezra Pound

Born

in Hailey, Idaho, The United States

October 30, 1885

Died

November 01, 1972

Genre

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 of Ezra Pound 3.89 avg rating — 9,894 ratings — published 1928 — 70 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 3.92 avg rating — 5,496 ratings — published 1970 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 3.90 avg rating — 1,968 ratings — published 1934 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 (Editor) 4.10 avg rating — 1,203 ratings — published 1926 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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) 4.06 avg rating — 570 ratings — published 1954 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Cathay (1915) by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa, Li Bai 3.93 avg rating — 588 ratings — published 1915	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 4.09 avg rating — 514 ratings — published 1949 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 4.06 avg rating — 341 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Hugh Selwyn Mauberley 3.68 avg rating — 325 ratings — published 1920 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 3.83 avg rating — 272 ratings — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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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The Cantos (27 books)
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Ezra Pound Reading His Poetry (1 book)
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Penguin Critical Anthologies (1 book)
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Quotes by Ezra Pound (?)

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

tags: books, light, reading

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“Literature is news that stays news.”
― Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading

tags: books, literature, reading

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

tags: books

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The love poems of Marichiko

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Jabberwocky

3 votes, 27.3%

Cantos XLV

2 votes, 18.2%

Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night

1 vote, 9.1%

Annabel Lee

1 vote, 9.1%

Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night (write-in)

1 vote, 9.1%

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