Ezra Pound
1) Cathay
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Cathay is a collection of classical Chinese poems by Li Bai, interpreted by the American poet Ezra Pound. Though Pound didn't speak Chinese, he based his translations on notes by Ernest Fenollosa, in the process setting a benchmark for modernist translations. The interpretative nature of Pound's work broke new ground in the treatment of poetry, and his status as an outsider allowed him a creative space not available to more, literal translators. Cathay...
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El presente libro no responde al concepto tradicional de antologĂa, esto es, una recopilaciĂ³n de textos con un criterio panorĂ¡mico y definitivo. Se trata de una crestomatĂa singular, propia podrĂamos decir, cuya finalidad es rendir un homenaje desde Chile a Pound. El presente volumen, incorpora las traducciones de dos poemas inĂ©ditos recientemente descubiertos en los archivos de la revista "Poetry", de la Universidad de Chicago, asĂ como testimonios...
3) Early Poems
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American poet Ezra Pound (1885–1972) was among the most influential literary figures of the twentieth century. As a poet, he founded the Imagist movement (c. 1909–17), which advocated the use of precise, concrete images in a free-verse setting. As an editor, he fostered the careers of William Butler Yeats, T. S. Eliot, and Robert Frost. As a force in the literary world, he championed James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis. Pound also helped to create a...
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«Ezra Pound. Primeros poemas (1908-1920)» recoge la traducciĂ³n al castellano y la anotaciĂ³n crĂtica de una amplia selecciĂ³n de los poemas que Pound publicĂ³ desde principios del siglo XX hasta los años siguientes a la Gran Guerra, a cargo de Rolando Costa Picazo, profesor de literatura Norteamericana en la Universidad de Buenos Aires, miembro de NĂºmero de la Academia Argentina de Letras y Correspondiente de la Real Academia Española. Costa...
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This illustrated collection brings together some of Ezra Pound's most influential works, offering readers a glimpse into the mind of one of the most innovative poets of the 20th century. Featuring selections from Personae and Lustra, as well as other seminal works, this collection showcases Pound's revolutionary approach to language, form, and structure. His poetry is marked by sharp imagery, historical allusions, and an experimental use of voice,...
6) Instigations
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Excerpt: "The time when the intellectual affairs of America could be conducted on a monolingual basis is over. It has been irksome for long. The intellectual life of London is dependent on people who understand the French language about as well as their own. America's part in contemporary culture is based chiefly upon two men familiar with Paris: Whistler and Henry James. It is something in the nature of a national disgrace that a New Zealand paper,...
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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (October 30, 1885 - November 1, 1972), born in what is now Hailey, Idaho, was a major American figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. Angered by the carnage of World War I, Pound blamed the war on finance capitalism, which he called "usury". He moved to Italy in 1924, and through the 1930s and 1940s promoted an economic theory known as social credit, wrote for...
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Hear rare recordings from some of the world's most-respected poets reading their own works: Ezra Pound, Old Men With Beautiful Manners; William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle Of Innisfree; Robert Graves, A Last Poem; Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Harp-Weaver; Richard Eberhart, The Groundhog; Philip Levine, Blasting From Heaven; Marianne Moore, The Mind Is An Enchanting Thing; Stephen Spender, What I Expected; Vachel Lindsay, An Interpolation By Mr. Lindsay....
17) The cantos, 1-95
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1965
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149, 56, 46, 167, 118, 107 pages : portrait ; 22 cm.
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English