Percy Shelley called poets the “unacknowledged legislators of the world.” No poet sought acknowledgment more enthusiastically than Ezra Pound. No poet legislated so ambitiously or disastrously, either ...

The Pound that matters is early Pound, essentially the Pound of the London years. He arrived in London to stay (he had visited earlier) on August 14, 1908 and within a decade or so of that date had ...

Ezra Pound, a pivotal 20th-century writer, significantly shaped modernist literature as a poet, critic, and editor. He championed emerging talents like T.S. Eliot and James Joyce, and pioneered ...

On the poet’s time in Rapallo. When Pound returned to Rapallo in 1958, following his internment in a madhouse (or mental hotel) for having made Fascist broadcasts during World War II, his life, too, ...

Ezra Pound, in poems like this, borrowing from the Asian forms he admired, made the juxtaposition of imagery part of the modern idiom.

A DRAFT OF XXX CANTOS—Ezra Pound—Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Though Thomas Stearns Eliot is now the mummified god of a large school of present-day poetasters, where two or three literary lights are ...

As a key American poet and critic of the 20th century, Ezra Pound is known for his intriguing and often baffling work on the music of language. Far less well-known, however, are his work as a composer ...