Ezra Pound is among the most remarkable men of the last 120 years. Poet Ezra Pound authored more than 70 books. He is the most brilliant founder of Modernism — a movement which sought to create art in a more precise and succinct form. Modernism can be seen as a natural reaction to the florid, heavy Victorian sensibility — it is not the meaningless abstractions we are assaulted with today.
He made his name as a poet and mentored W. B. Yeats, T. S. Elliot and Ernest Hemingway on their way to the Noble Prize (back when it meant something). He introduced the world to up-and-coming poets like Robert Frost and D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and was T.S. Eliot's editor.
Your public school didn't teach this? Mine didn't. Do you know why?
I too read those authors when I was in school, and lament that they hardly are even taught or mentioned anymore in the modern high school English curriculum. That's my point.
Good response. I recall that Robert Frost, T.S. Elliot, and Ernest Hemingway were promoted in the school I went to a long time ago. I remember the teacher reading Robert Frost poems. But, no Ezra Pound. The irony is none of these people would have become famous without Ezra Pound's help. Even the Irish novelist James Joyce, whom Ezra Pound helped introduce to publishers and find landing spots in magazines for several of the stories in "The Dubliners" and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." During Joyce's leanest years, Pound helped him with money and even, it is said, helped secure for him an old pair of shoes to wear.
Ezra Pound is among the most remarkable men of the last 120 years. Poet Ezra Pound authored more than 70 books. He is the most brilliant founder of Modernism — a movement which sought to create art in a more precise and succinct form. Modernism can be seen as a natural reaction to the florid, heavy Victorian sensibility — it is not the meaningless abstractions we are assaulted with today.
He made his name as a poet and mentored W. B. Yeats, T. S. Elliot and Ernest Hemingway on their way to the Noble Prize (back when it meant something). He introduced the world to up-and-coming poets like Robert Frost and D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and was T.S. Eliot's editor.
Your public school didn't teach this? Mine didn't. Do you know why?
Aaaaah, W.B. Yeats. I want An Irish Airman Foresees His Death read at my funeral.
Your point is...?
I too read those authors when I was in school, and lament that they hardly are even taught or mentioned anymore in the modern high school English curriculum. That's my point.
Good response. I recall that Robert Frost, T.S. Elliot, and Ernest Hemingway were promoted in the school I went to a long time ago. I remember the teacher reading Robert Frost poems. But, no Ezra Pound. The irony is none of these people would have become famous without Ezra Pound's help. Even the Irish novelist James Joyce, whom Ezra Pound helped introduce to publishers and find landing spots in magazines for several of the stories in "The Dubliners" and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." During Joyce's leanest years, Pound helped him with money and even, it is said, helped secure for him an old pair of shoes to wear.