Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry

By T. S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot was an American-born British author who is considered to be one of the greatest poets of the 20th century.  Eliot, whose most popular works include The Waste Land and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.  This edition of Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry includes a table of contents.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Charles River Editors
• Release date: Mar 22, 2018
• ISBN: 9781531283544

T. S. Eliot

THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He moved to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.

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EZRA POUND: HIS METRIC AND POETRY

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T.S. Eliot

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Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry

EZRA POUND: HIS METRIC AND POETRY

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I

All talk on modern poetry, by people who know, wrote Mr. Carl Sandburg in Poetry, ends with dragging in Ezra Pound somewhere. He may be named only to be cursed as wanton and mocker, poseur, trifler and vagrant. Or he may be classed as filling a niche today like that of Keats in a preceding epoch. The point is, he will be mentioned.

This is a simple statement of fact. But though Mr. Pound is well known, even having been the victim of interviews for Sunday papers, it does not follow that his work is thoroughly known. There are twenty people who have their opinion of him for every one who has read his writings with any care. Of those twenty, there will be some who are shocked, some who are ruffled, some who are irritated, and one or two whose sense of dignity is outraged. The twenty-first critic will probably be one who knows and admires some of the poems, but who either says: Pound is primarily a scholar, a translator, or Pound’s early verse was beautiful; his later work shows nothing better than the itch for advertisement, a mischievous desire to be annoying, or a childish desire to be original. There is a third type of reader, rare enough, who has perceived Mr. Pound for some years,