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  In a Station of the Metro

  Editors:Marie Rose Napierkowski and Mary RubyFrom:Poetry for Students (Vol. 2. )

  199814 pages Poem explanation, Cr... Ezra Pound 1916 Based on Japanese haiku, “In a Station of the Metro” (1916) reflects Pound’s interest in other cultures, as well as his belief that the purpose of art was to “make it new.” This poem is the embodiment...
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  Pound, Ezra 1885-1972

  Editors:Judith S. Baughman, Victor Bondi, Richard Layman, Tandy McConnell, and Vincent TompkinsFrom:American Decades (Vol. 5: 1940-1949. )

  2001 Biography 1430LPOET Ezra Pound's odyssey of ideas took him far from his birthplace in Idaho and changed American literature irrevocably. He had an uncanny eye for talent. During the 1910s and 1920s he was a champion of innovative new...
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  Pound, Ezra 1885-1972

  Author:William Van O’ConnorFrom:American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies (Vol. 3: Archibald MacLeish to George Santayana. )

  197424 pages Critical essay, Biog... Introduction ON THE afternoon of December 7, 1941, Ezra Pound, a famous American literary expatriate, left his home in Rapallo, Italy, took a train for Rome, and over the state radio read the following: “Europe...
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  The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter

  Editors:Mary Ruby and Ira Mark MilneFrom:Poetry for Students (Vol. 8. )

  200013 pages Poem explanation, Bi... Ezra Pound 1915 “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” was published in 1915 in Ezra Pound’s third collection of poetry, Cathay: Translations, which contains versions of Chinese poems composed from the sixteen notebooks...
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  Pound, Ezra 1885—1972

  Author:A. Walton LitzFrom:American Writers, Retrospective Supplement 1

  199812 pages Critical essay, Biog... Introduction EZRA LOOMIS POUND was born on October 30, 1885, in the frontier mining town of Hailey, Idaho, and died in Venice on November 1,1972. He was buried in the Protestant cemetery on the nearby island of San...
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  Campos Haroldo de (1929–2003)

  Author:Paula HalperinFrom:Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture (Vol. 2. 2^nd ed.)

  20082 pages Biography 1330LHaroldo de Campos was an influential Brazilian intellectual and poet. Born on August 19, 1929, in São Paulo, the capital of Brazilian modernism, in 1952 he formed the group Noigandres with his brother Augusto de Campos...
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  Poetry

  Editors:Judith S. Baughman, Victor Bondi, Richard Layman, Tandy McConnell, and Vincent TompkinsFrom:American Decades (Vol. 3: 1920-1929. )

  2001 Topic overview 1140LMajor poems were written during the 1920s by poets who were publishing before the war: Robert Frost (1874-1963), Ezra Pound (1885-1972), Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), Vachel Lindsay...
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  A Poet's Life: Seventy Years in a Changing World

  Editor:Cynthia RoseFrom:American Decades Primary Sources (Vol. 2: 1910-1919. )

  20044 pages Excerpt, Autobiograp... Autobiography By: Harriet Monroe Date: 1938 Source: Monroe, Harriet. A Poet's Life: Seventy Years in a Changing World. New York: Macmillan, 1938, 251–254. About the Author: Harriet Monroe (1860–1936) was born in...
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  Doolittle, Hilda 1886-1961

  Author:Peter FirchowFrom:American Writers, Supplement 1 (Vol. 1. )

  197923 pages Critical essay, Biog... Introduction H.D.—or Hilda Doolittle, as she was known before Ezra Pound urged her to use her initials instead—was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 1886, the daughter of Charles Leander Doolittle, then...
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  Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

  Editor:David M. GalensFrom:Poetry for Students (Vol. 16. )

  200233 pages Poem explanation, Bi... Ezra Pound 1920 Ezra Pound’s 1920 poem “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” is a landmark in the career of the great American modernist poet. In the poem, Pound uses two alter egos to discuss the first twelve years of his career, a...
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  For an Assyrian Frieze

  Editor:Ira Mark MilneFrom:Poetry for Students (Vol. 9. )

  200011 pages Poem explanation, Pl... Peter Viereck 1948 Although his work is not read much today, Peter Viereck was one of the leading American poets of the 1950s and 1960s. But Viereck did not limit himself to writing poetry; he also became an important...
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  Propertius

  Editor:Carroll MoultonFrom:Ancient Greece and Rome: An Encyclopedia for Students (Vol. 3. )

  19981 page Brief biography 980Lca. 50-ca. 16 B.C. ROMAN POET Sextus Propertius was a Roman poet during the reign of the emperor AUGUSTUS. His fame rests on the Propertius was born in Assisi, a small city about 90 miles north of Rome. His...
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  Concretism

  Author:K. David JacksonFrom:Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture (Vol. 2. 2^nd ed.)

  20082 pages Topic overview 1710LConcretism, a term incorporating a broad panoply of Brazilian neovanguardist movements in the plastic arts and in literature launched in the 1950s and active through the 1970s. The term "concrete," drawing on "concrete...
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  The Red Wheelbarrow

  Editors:Marie Rose Napierkowski and Mary RubyFrom:Poetry for Students (Vol. 1. )

  199812 pages Biography, Critical ... William Carlos Williams 1923 william Carlos William’s poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” was first published in the collection Spring and All in 1923. The poem is a good example of Williams’s statement, “No ideas, but in...
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  The 1940s: The Arts: Publications

  Editors:Judith S. Baughman, Victor Bondi, Richard Layman, Tandy McConnell, and Vincent TompkinsFrom:American Decades (Vol. 5: 1940-1949. )

  2001 Bibliography 620LAlfred H. Barr, Jr., Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1947); Barr, Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1946); Saul Bellow, Dangling Man (New York:...
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  Literature: The New Poetry

  Editors:Judith S. Baughman, Victor Bondi, Richard Layman, Tandy McConnell, and Vincent TompkinsFrom:American Decades (Vol. 2: 1910-1919. )

  2001 Topic overview 1400LMuch of the credit for the identification of the 1910s as a period of literary renaissance must be given to its poets, who revolutionized literature—and whose works had close ties to those of the visual artists of the...
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  Sur

  Author:Rolando Costa PicazoFrom:Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture (Vol. 5. 2^nd ed.)

  20082 pages Brief article, Work ... 1200LSur, prestigious and influential cultural review published in Buenos Aires. Following the advice of the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset, and with his support as well as that of the American writer Waldo Frank...
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  Zukofsky, Louis 1904–1978

  Author:Tim RedmanFrom:American Writers, Supplement 3 (Vol. 2. )

  199124 pages Critical essay, Biog... Introduction AFTER THE DEATH of Ezra Pound, so the story goes, a young journalist wished to find out who was the greatest living American poet. She made preliminary inquiries and contacted the leading candidates,...
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  The Cantos: Ezra Pound 1917–1968

  Editor:Sara ConstantakisFrom:Epics for Students (Vol. 1. 2^nd ed.)

  201134 pages Critical essay, Work... The Cantos is Ezra Pound's most significant contribution to world literature. The poem was published in various parts over a span of five decades and during the twentieth century tended to be read in parts. During the...
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  Coronel Urtecho, José (1906–1994)

  Author:David E. WhisnantFrom:Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture (Vol. 2. 2^nd ed.)

  20082 pages Biography 1390LJosé Coronel Urtecho (b. 28 February 1906; d. March 1994), except for Rubén Darío considered to be Nicaragua's most important writer. Born in Granada and educated at the Colegio Centroamérica, Coronel Urtecho studied for...