kilometer怎么读Ezra Pound关于庞德生平及作品的简介

2021年1月19日发(作者：glyphosate)

A
―
Mad
‖
Poet with High Literary Talents

Ezra Weston
Loomis
Pound
(1885-1972),
a
leading spokesman
of the
his time. He exerted a profound influence on the generation of the
British and American writers who launched modern literature after
the
First
World
War,
and
decisively
affected
the
course
of
the
twentieth-century American literature.


Working in London in the early 20th century as foreign editor of
several American literary magazines, Pound helped to discover and
shape the work of contemporaries such as T. S. Eliot, James Joyce,
Robert
Frost,
and Ernest
Hemingway.
Pound
was responsible for
the
publication
in
1915
of
Eliot's

Love
Song
of
J.
Alfred
Prufrock
and
for
the
serialization
from
1918
of
Joyce's
Ulysses
.
Hemingway wrote in 1925:
attacked,
he
gets
them
into
magazines
and
out
of
jail.
He
loans
them money. ... He writes articles about them. He introduces them
to wealthy women. He gets publishers to take their books. He sits
up all night with them when they claim to be dying ... he advances
them hospital expenses and dissuades them from suicide.

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During the First World War, he lost faith in England, blaming usury
and international capitalism for the war. He moved to Italy in 1924
where throughout the 1930s and 1940s, to his friends' dismay, he
embraced Benito Mussolini's fascism, expressed support for Adolf
Hitler,
and
wrote
for
publications
owned
by
the
British
fascist
Oswald Mosley. As a result of which he was arrested for treason by
American forces in Italy in 1945 and later he was incarcerated in St.
Elizabeths
psychiatric
hospital
in
Washington,
D.C.,
for
over
12
years.
He
was
released
from
St.
Elizabeths
in
1958,
thanks
to
a
protracted
campaign
by
his
fellow
writers,
and
returned
to
live
in
Italy until his death.

While in custody in Italy he had begun work on sections of
The
Cantos
that became known as
The Pisan Cantos
(1948), for which
he
was
awarded
the
Bollingen
Prize
in
1949
by
the
Library
of
Congress.
The
honor
triggered
enormous
controversy,
mostly
because of his anti-semitism, and in part because it raised literary
questions about whether a supposedly
contentious
views
could
produce
work
of
any
value.
His
political
views
ensure
that
his
work
remains
controversial;
in
1933
Time

magazine
called
him

cat
that
walks
by
himself,
tenaciously
unhousebroken and very unsafe for children.

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Despite the fact that he was politically controversial and notorious
for
what
he
did
in
the
wartime,
Pound's
literary
talents
are
extraordinary.
He
composed
poems,
wrote
criticisms
and
did
translations.
His
commitment
to
poetry
was
total:
to
poetry
as
a
craft, as a moral and spiritual resource and eventually as a means
of
salvaging
culture,
redeeming
history.
Pound's
poetic
works
include
twelve
volumes
of
verse
which
were
later
collected
and
published
in
Collect-
ed
Early
Poems
of
Ezra
Pound

(1982),
and
Personae

(1909),
and
some
longer
pieces
such
as
Hugh
Selwya
Mauberley
(1920) and his life's work, the one hundred and sixteen
Cantos that he published between 1916 and 1969.


The Imagist Movement
Pound's
artistic
talents
are
on
full
display
in
the
history
of
the
Imagist
Movement,
which
flourished
from
1909
to
1917
and
involved quite a number of British and American writers and poets.
This
is
a
movement
that
advanced
modernism
in
arts
which
concentrated
on
reforming
the
medium
of
poetry
as
opposed
to
Romanticism,
especially
Tennyson's
wordiness
and
high-flown
language
in
poetry.
As
one
of
the
leaders
of
the Imagists,
Pound
endorsed
the
group's
three
main
principles,
which
include
direct
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