Ezra Pound

NOUN
  1. United States writer who lived in Europe; strongly influenced the development of modern literature (1885-1972)
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  • Promoted by the fascist Ezra Pound, this new poetry without meter or rhyme swept literary Europe and America in the period leading up to the war.
  • The modern free-verse poet Ezra Pound toadied to Mussolini.
  • She names two much-anthologized poets, Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, as her two great indulgences.
  • There are people who collect every stray opuscule by prolific and disparate authors -- Henry Miller, say, or Ezra Pound -- and they will forever be chasing down that one pamphlet printed in an edition of 12 in Orvieto in 1932. The Book Collection That Devoured My Life
  • Perhaps it will help put things in perspective to be reminded that Vincent van Gogh was made redundant from an art gallery, Ezra Pound was outplaced from Wabash College in Indiana (sure, Wabash isn't Harvard, but still ...), why last year Pierce Brosnan was discharged of his duties as 007, and he was my favorite Bond ever. Annabelle Gurwitch: Post-Firing Advice for Larry Summers
  • In Ezra Pound's translation of Li Po's "The River-Merchant's Wife," we are moved by the thousand-year-old voice of a young bride in China: "At fifteen, I stopped scowling, / I desired my dust to be mingled with yours / Forever and forever, and forever. How Memorization Makes Words Live
  • He was also an admirer of Joyce and a financial supporter for an aging Ezra Pound.
  • Yet by marrying lyrics that name-checked Ezra Pound and TS Eliot as well as Ma Rainey and Beethoven to a rock'n'roll backbeat, he revolutionised popular music.
  • In Ezra Pound's translation of Li Po's "The River-Merchant's Wife," we are moved by the thousand-year-old voice of a young bride in China: "At fifteen, I stopped scowling, / I desired my dust to be mingled with yours / Forever and forever, and forever. How Memorization Makes Words Live
  • The allusions are swift, the collisions reminiscent of the ‘ply over ply’ technique of Ezra Pound's Cantos, but to more disjunctive ends.
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