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Pound, Ezra Loomis

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1885–1972, American poet, critic, and translator, b. Hailey, Idaho, grad. Hamilton College, 1905, M.A. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1906. An extremely important influence in the shaping of 20th-century poetry, he was one of the most famous and controversial literary figures of the century—praised as a subtle and complex modern poet, dismissed as a naive egotist and pedant, condemned as a traitor and reactionary. In 1907, Pound left the United States to travel in Europe, eventually settling in England. There he published a series of small books of poetry—including Personae (1909), Exultations (1909), Canzoni (1911), and Ripostes (1912)—which attracted attention for their originality and erudition. In England he came to dominate the avant-garde movements of the time—first leading the imagists and later championing vorticism . Both these movements sought to free post-Victorian verse from its staleness and conventionality. Pound encouraged many young writers, notably T. S. Eliot and James Joyce…
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Full text Article Pound, Ezra

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Poet, critic, and editor. An influential and controversial literary figure, Pound left the United States in 1908 to live in Venice and London. In 1912 he founded imagism, advocating a tight, clear, unsentimental style of poetry. With painter and writer Wyndham Lewis, Pound founded vorticism, which…
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Full text Article Pound, Ezra Loomis

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US poet and literary critic. He was a leading figure in literary modernism and a founder of imagism and vorticism . In 1907, Pound emigrated to England. His early experimental works Exultations and Personae (both 1909) established him as a leading member of the avant-garde. In 1924, Pound moved to…
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Full text Article Pound, Ezra (Loomis) (1885–1972)

From The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry
Born in Hailey, Idaho, but grew up and was educated mainly in Pennsylvania. In 1908, when a projected academic career was cut short, he set sail for Europe, spending several months in Venice and finally settling in London, where he was befriended by his hero, W. B. *Yeats . Between 1908 and 1911 he…
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US poet, a key figure in the Modernist movement, whose chief work was the massive poetic cycle The Cantos (collected 1970). He spent much of his life in Italy, and was committed to an asylum for a time after World War II, during which he espoused Fascist sympathies. Bah! I have sung women in three…
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Full text Article Ezra Pound 1885–1972

From The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
American poet Winter is icummen in, Lhude sing Goddamm, Raineth drop and staineth slop, And how the wind doth ramm! Sing: Goddamm. ‘Ancient Music’ (1917); see anonymous With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting. Cantos (1954) no. 45 Tching prayed on the…
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Full text Article THE WEATHER

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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. [Letter, 1796] He who doesn’t notice whether it is winter or summer is happy. I think that if I were in Moscow, I wouldn’t notice what the weather was like. CHEKHOV, Anton The Three Sisters (1901). Snowy, Flowy, …
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Full text Article FAMILIES

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They were a tense and peculiar family, the Oedipuses, weren’t they? [Attr.] Mothers of large families (who claim to common sense)Will find a Tiger well repays the trouble and expense. BELLOC, Hilaire The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts (1896). Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families. DICKENS, …
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Full text Article EYES

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Let beam upon my inward view Those eyes of deep, soft, lucent hue – Eyes too expressive to be blue, Too lovely to be grey. ARNOLD, Matthew ‘ Faded Leaves ’ (1852). There is a glare in some men’s eyes which seems to say,‘Beware, I am dangerous; Noli me tangere .’ Lord Brougham’s face has this. A…
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Full text Article Tropic of Cancer

From Brewer's Curious Titles
A semi-autobiographical novel (1934) in experimental form by the US writer Henry Miller (1891-1980). Unashamedly exhibitionistic, the book reflects Miller's bohemian life and sexual activities in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s. Tropic of Capricorn (1939) is a companion volume, recalling his…
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Full text Article Tropic of Cancer

From Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable
A semi-autobiographical novel (1934) in experimental form by Henry Miller (1891-1980). Unashamedly exhibitionistic, it covers his activities and other forms of low life in Paris during the 1930s. Tropic of Capricorn (1939) is a companion volume, reflecting his childhood and earlier life in the…
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