Ezra Pound Flashcards
When did Pound arrive in London?
In 1908
What four writer, all connected to Ernest Hemingway were vital to establishing the milieu of transatlantic Modernism?
Ezra Pound, TS Eliot, Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner
What was Pound’s first volume of poetry, also was published in 1908?
A Lume Spento
What writers had Pound met by 1909 in London?
Elkin Matthews, Ford Madox Hueffer, TE Hulme, Wyndham Lewis, DH Lawrence and WB Yeats
What had Pound come to Europe influenced by?
The work of 14th century poet Dante Alighieri and 12th and 13th century Provencal troubadours
What had Pound trained himself as before coming to Europe?
A translator and a poet of his own original work
In 1912 and 1913 what magazine’s did Pound’s work appear?
Orage’s The New Age, Harriet Monroe’s Poetry and Dora Marsden’s The Egoist
What magazine did Pound transform into a more literary magazine while holding the position of poetry editor
The Egoist
What movement did Pound found by the end of 1912?
Imagisme
What did Pound proclaim for his friend and former love, poet Hilda Doolittle?
H.D. Imagiste
Whose works did Pound promote through Imagisme?
H.D. and Richard Alsington
In what did Pound announce the major points of the manifesto of Imagisme?
The March 1913 edition of Poetry
Who helped Pound draft the manifesto of Imagisme?
F.S. Flint
What were the three major points of Imagisme?
Direct treatment of the thing, absolutely no word was to be used that did not contribute to the presentation and to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase
What had Pound done by the end of 1913?
Published another volume of poetry, become friends with sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and served as secretary to Yeats in the winter of the next three years
Who did Pound marry in April 1914?
Dorothy Shakespear
Who did Pound attempt to translate and use as inspiration for his poetry?
Chinese and Japanese poets and dramatists as represented in the extensive notebooks of sinologist Ernest Fenollosa
The concept of what would become increasingly important to the evolution of Pound’s works?
The Chinese ideogram s an immediate and compact image-sing
What did Pound do as the world moved into war?
Promoted a new poetic movement, Vorticism and renouncing Imagism which had been taken over by American poetess Amy Lowell
Who took over Imagisme after Pound left?
American poetess Amy Lowell
Who did Pound formulate Vorticism with?
Wyndham Lewis
Where did Pound expound the movement of Vorticism?
In the pages of Blast
By what year could Pound no longer avoid the impact of the First World War on his life?
1915 when Gaudier-Brzeska was killed in France
What killed the publication of Blast?
The start of the First World War
How many issues did Blast run for?
Just two
How would Pound account for his feelings about Gaudier Brzeksa’s death and when?
In 1916 with the publication of Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir
What did Pound try to write an epic inspired by?
Dante’s The Divine Comedy
What work would remain unfinished by the time of Ezra Pound’s death?
The Cantos
When did Pound publish his first three cantos?
In the July and August issues of Poetry in 1917
When did Pound republish his first three cantos?
After much revision in A Draft of XVI Cantos with Three Mountains Press in 1925
What friend of Pound’s died at the front in 1917?
T.E. Hulme
What economist conceptual came into contact with Pound?
Major C.H. Douglas
What of Douglas’s thoughts on economics would eventually influence Pound?
The concept of economics and its relationship to corporate profits and the impoverishment of the workers
What was the name of Major Douglas’s work?
Economic Democracy
What magazine was Economic Democracy serialized in?
The New Age
What poem was a way of Pound saying goodbye to London?
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
