There are two Ezra Pound's:
1) American Poet
2) Emo/punk band from Ma… Read Full Bio ↴There are two Ezra Pound's:
1) American Poet
2) Emo/punk band from Madison, WI with members going on to form Rainer Maria
1) Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (October 30, 1885 – November 1, 1972) was an American expatriate, poet, musician and critic who, along with T.S. Eliot, was a major figure of the modernist movement in early 20th century poetry. He was the driving force behind several modernist movements, notably Imagism and Vorticism. The critic Hugh Kenner said on meeting Pound: "I suddenly knew that I was in the presence of the center of modernism."
Because of his political views, especially his support of Mussolini and his anti-Semitism, Pound continues to attract much criticism. While it is almost impossible to ignore the vital role he played in the modernist revolution in 20th century literature in English, Pound's perceived importance has varied over the years. The location of Pound -- as opposed to other writers such as T.S. Eliot -- at the center of the Anglo-American Modernist tradition was famously asserted by the critic Hugh Kenner, most fully in his account of the Modernist movement titled The Pound Era. The critic Marjorie Perloff has also insisted upon the centrality of Pound to numerous traditions of "experimental" poetry in the 20th century.
As a poet, Pound was one of the first to successfully employ free verse in extended compositions. His Imagist poems influenced, among others, the Objectivists and The Cantos were a touchstone for Allen Ginsberg and other Beat poets. Almost every 'experimental' poet in English since the early 20th century has been considered by some to be in his debt.
1) American Poet
2) Emo/punk band from Ma… Read Full Bio ↴There are two Ezra Pound's:
1) American Poet
2) Emo/punk band from Madison, WI with members going on to form Rainer Maria
1) Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (October 30, 1885 – November 1, 1972) was an American expatriate, poet, musician and critic who, along with T.S. Eliot, was a major figure of the modernist movement in early 20th century poetry. He was the driving force behind several modernist movements, notably Imagism and Vorticism. The critic Hugh Kenner said on meeting Pound: "I suddenly knew that I was in the presence of the center of modernism."
Because of his political views, especially his support of Mussolini and his anti-Semitism, Pound continues to attract much criticism. While it is almost impossible to ignore the vital role he played in the modernist revolution in 20th century literature in English, Pound's perceived importance has varied over the years. The location of Pound -- as opposed to other writers such as T.S. Eliot -- at the center of the Anglo-American Modernist tradition was famously asserted by the critic Hugh Kenner, most fully in his account of the Modernist movement titled The Pound Era. The critic Marjorie Perloff has also insisted upon the centrality of Pound to numerous traditions of "experimental" poetry in the 20th century.
As a poet, Pound was one of the first to successfully employ free verse in extended compositions. His Imagist poems influenced, among others, the Objectivists and The Cantos were a touchstone for Allen Ginsberg and other Beat poets. Almost every 'experimental' poet in English since the early 20th century has been considered by some to be in his debt.
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Peter Whisenant
It's a revelation to hear Pound read this poem. It's always struck me as a too relentlessly bitter diatribe, in need of leavening, but as spoken by Pound, there's a degree of vituperativeness I'd never heard before in the mere words on the page (or screen). He was an astonishingly gifted poet, but because he was so unfailingly historical in his outlook and saw the world as moving along a continuum to doom, he often comes across as a humorless crank. Thanks for posting this.
oisindayo
I honestly revere this man and it's so rare to hear his voice. There's so much emotion in his readings and it makes me see poems with which I'm already very familiar in a whole new light. He truly was a great man and one of the most underrated and neglected poets of the 20th century simply because he was unapologetic even after utter defeat. They broke his mind but they could not break his indomitable spirit. Ave camerata.
Konrad Wallenrod
I don't think I've ever heard his voice before! Thank you very much!!!
Naomi Kuo
so cool to hear poets read their own poetry! the old American accent is interesting
Bo55
How true! And yet he was always so kind and praised almost all others, no matter how inferior.
Julian Bernick
Great to hear him reading, but miss the rest of the poem, particularly Mr. Nixon and the Envoi
AD G
Beautiful, beautiful poetry....not taught in universities nearly enough these days....to bad. Still the phenomenon of cultural criticism's embargo on Modernist Poetics can't last forever, it will wain when the next big theoretical thing comes into vogue...
Balian
Powerful
Davidius Doremouseius
This guy should've been in Hawkwind :)
BARRY TEBB
PERHAPS HIS GREATEST POEM