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University Of Pennsylvania Ezra Pound
1,422 wordsThis American poet and critic, wrote this letter to twentieth century poets from Rapallo, Italy, on May 12, 1939: Arriving at the University of Pennsylvania in 1901, I acknowledge debts to Professors McDaniel and Child for Latin and English, and to Ames for doing his best when no professor of American history had got down to bedrock. Overholser had not made his admirable compendium of the real causes of the Revolution and of the great and dastardly betrayal of the American people and the America...
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University Of Pennsylvania Ezra Pound
430 wordsEzra Ezra Pound Ezra Pound Ezra Pound was born in 1885 in Hailey, Idaho. He was considered one of the foremost American literary figures of the 20 th century. Pounds style was unlike any other poet during this time period. He wrote about ancient and modern history with his personal reflections and experience. In Pounds poetry he tested many new forms of verses. Pound influenced young authors such as: James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, and Ernest Hemingway. When Pound was 15 years old he had...
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5,136 words" Mantis, " like so much of Zukofsky's work, both reflects his tuition in the " school of Pound" and demonstrates the extent to which he brings a self-consciousness beyond Pounds to that tradition. Like Pounds " Sestina: Altaforte, " " Mantis" is a sestina, a seven-stanza poem in a form invented by Dantes " million faber, " the Troubadour Arnaut Daniel. The requirements of the form are clearly specified and rigorously bind the poet. There is no c...
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4,784 wordsOn Imagism from Amy Lowell, Tendencies in Modern American Poetry (New York: Macmillan Company, 1917). We are now to deal with the work of the small group of poets known as Imagist's. Later, I shall explain just what are the tenets of the Imagist School, but before beginning on the work of the two poets whose names stand at the head of this chapter, it is proper to state that they only represent a fraction of the Imagist group. Of course, any one who writes poetry from the same point of view migh...
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1,122 wordsMassimo Bacigalupo In the final completed canto [ 116 ] the mind of Ixion confronts with " gaiety" the mind of the god who " comes" in marine guise, attended by the dolphins of canto 110, to greet the voyager, or to bring him the " gentle death" Tiresias had promised Ulysses [in the Odyssey] There is a touch of truculence in the challenge to " lift" the great ball which is at one time the acorn of light of canto 106, Pounds phantastikon, the divine vision,...
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8,848 wordsLawrence Rainey It should come as no surprise that the motif of patronage is explicitly taken up in Pounds principal composition of this period, the so-called Malatesta Cantos, or Cantos 8 - 11. To oversimplify, they depict the life and times of Sigismondo Malatesta, the quattrocento ruler of Rimini, a small town just south of Ravenna on the Adriatic coast of Italy. Sigismondo sponsored the reconstruction of the church of San Francesco, a building long regarded as a landmark in architectural his...
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4,657 wordsRichard Ellen Pounds criticism of The Waste Land was not of its meaning; he liked its despair and was indulgent of its neo-Christian hope. He dealt instead with its stylistic adequacy and freshness. For example, there was an extended, unsuccessful imitation of The Rape of the Lock at the beginning of " The Fire Sermon. " It described the lady Fresca (imported to the waste land from " Gerontion" and one day to be exported to the States for the soft drink trade). Instead of mak...
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