American poet and critic, often called "the poet's poet" becau his profound influence on 20th century writing in English. Pound believed that poetry is the highest of arts. A rebel par excellence, he challenged many of the common views of his time and spent 12 years in an American mental hospital. Pound's major work was the Cantos, which was published in ten ctions between 1925 and 1969, and then as a one-volume collected edition, The Cantos of Ezra Pound I-CXVII (1970).
"The Proper METHOD for studying poetry and good letters is the method of contemporary biologists, that is careful first-hand examination of the matter, and continual COMPARISON of one 'slide' or specimen with another."(in ABC of Reading, 1934) 明星身价
Ezra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho, but he was brought up in Wyncote, Philadelphia. His father, Homer Loomis Pound, worked as an assistant assayer at the US Mint. At the age of twelve Pound entered Cheltenham, a military school, where he was introduced to Greek and Latin. He then studied languages at the University of Pennsylvania, and befriended the
re the young William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), who gained later fame as a poet in New York's avant-garde circles. From 1903 to 1906 Pound studied Anglo-Saxon and Romance languages at Hamilton College.电脑阅卷 In 1907 his teaching career was cut short at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, when he had entertained an actress in his room.
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In 1908 Pound travelled widely in Europe, working as a journalist. His first book of poems, A Lume Spento销售简历怎么写 (1908), was privately printed by A. Antonini in Venice. Inspired by the work of Yeats, he went to London becau he thought "Yeats knew more about poetry than anybody el": He founded with Richard Aldington (1892-1962) and others the literary 'Imagism', and edited its first anthology, Des Imagistes (1914). The movement was influenced by thoughts of Rémy de Gourmont who book, The Natural Philosophy of Love (1904), Pound translated later, and T.E. Hulme (1883-1917), who stresd the importance of fresh language and true perception on nature. In his cautions, published in Poetry in 1913, Pound wrote: "Don't u such an expression as 'dim lands of peace'. It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not r
ealizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol."
In their manifesto the Imagists promid: "1. Direct treatment of the 'thing' whether subject or objective. 2. To u absolutely no word that does not contribute to the prentation. 3. As regarding rhythm: to compo in the quence of musical phra, not in quence of a metronome." Pound's short "one-image poem" 'In a Station of the Metro' is among the most celebrated Imagist works: "The apparition of the faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough." Pound had en a succession of beautiful faces one day on the Paris Metro, and in the evening he found suddenly the expression for his sudden emotion.
Pound soon lost interest in Imagism - he did not abandon totally formulaic ver - and after disputing with the poet Amy Lowell, Pound called the movement "Amygism." With Wyndham Lewis and the sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, who was killed in 1915, he founded 'Vorticism', which produced a magazine, Blast. He helped Wyndham Lewis, T.S. Eliot and James Joyce to publish their works in the magazines Egoist尤克里里弹唱谱 and Poetry. When
he worked in 1913-14 as W.B. Yeats's cretary, he started a correspondence with Joyce. After their first meeting the Irish poet had said that Pound "can't sing as he has no voice", but later called him a solitary volcano; Wyndham Lewis said he was the Trotsky of literature. Pound wrote on Joyce on various magazines, collected money for him, and even nt spare clothes for him. Pound also played crucial role in the cutting of Eliot's The Waste Land. Eliot dedicated the work to him, as il miglior fabbro (the better maker). In 1914 Pound married the artist Dorothy Shakespear, "surely the most charming woman in London," as Pound described her to his mother. After a vacation in Egypt, Dorothy conceived in 1926 a child, Omar. In 1922 Pound started his relationship with the violinist Olga Rudge, with whom he had a daughter, born five months before Omar. From this period date one of Pound's most widely read poems, Homage to Sextus Propertius (1919).
Pound has been called the "inventor" of Chine poetry for our time. Beginning in 1913 with the notebooks of the Orientalist Ernest Fenollosa, he pursued a lifelong study of ancient Chine texts, and translated among others the writings of Confucius. Pound's tr
anslations bad on Fenollosa's notes, collected in Cathay (1915), are considered among the most beautiful of his writings. Dante and Homer became other sources for inspiration, and especially Dante's journey through the realms have parallels with his examination of individual experiences in the Cantos.
And round about there is a rabble
Of the filthy, study, unkillable infants of the very poor.
They shall inherit the earth.
(in 'The Garden', 1913, 1916)
In 1920 Pound moved to Paris 交通指示标志牌- Britain had become him "an old bitch, gone in the teeth." Four years later her ttled in Italy, where he lived over 20 years, comfortable with his role as an outsider. He met Mussolini in 1933 and saw in him the long-needed economic and social reformer. In his anti-Semitic statements Pound agreed with tho who believed that the economic system was being exploited by Jewish financiers.和应
During World War II Pound made in Rome a ries of hysterical and bitter radio broadcas
ts, that were openly fascist. In one of his radio talks he suggested that "if some man had a stroke of genius, and could start a pogrom there might de something to say for it." In 1945 he was arrested by the U.S. forces and put in a six foot by six foot "gorilla cage" - he was still an American citizen. Labelled as paranoid by the examining psychiatrists in a trial, Pound spent 12 years in Washington, D.C., in a hospital for the criminally insane.
It has been suggested that Pound was feigning insanity to escape the death penalty, but the treason indictment did not drastically affect his ability to write and translate poetry. During this period he received the 1949 Bollingen Prize for his Pisan Cantos, which concerned his imprisonment at the camp near Pisa. After Pound was relead from St. Elizabeth's hospital due to the actions and efforts of his last living protégé, Eustace Mullins, he returned to Italy, where he spent his remaining years. Pound died on November 1, 1972, in Venice. According to Katherine Anne Porter, "Pound was one of the most opinionated and unlfish men who ever lived, and he made friends and enemies everywhere by the simple exerci of the classic American constitutional right of free spe
ech." (The Letters of E.P., 1907-1941相机品牌排名, review in New York Times Book Review, 29 Oct. 1950)
