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
When did Pound publish Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
In 1920
Who did Pound meet in Italy and what did he do to that person?
James Joyce who he persuaded to move to Paris
When did Pound move to Paris?
By early 1921
When did Pound meet Picasso?
January 1922
When did Pound meet Hemingway?
In February 1922
What work of Hemingway did Pound help publish and promote?
Three Stories and Ten Poems
Who called Pound the most generous writer he had ever known?
Hemingway
Where were Pound’s Cantos V, VI, VII published in?
The Dial
When were Pound’s Malatesta Cantos, VIII-XI finished?
By the end of 1923
Who published a deluxe version of Pound’s first eleven cantos, A Draft of XVI Cantos?
Three Mountain Press in 1925
What did Eliot refer to Pound as?
Il migglior fabbro or the better craftsman
Where did Pound leave Paris for in 1925?
Rapallo, the Italian seacoast town
What government did Pound support during the Second World War?
Mussolini’s
Where was Pound imprisoned for treason against the UnIted States in 1945?
Pisa
Where was Pound institutionalized?
At St. Elizabeth’s Psychiatric Hospital until 1958
Until when was Pound institutionalized at St. Elizabeth’s Psychriatric Hospital?
1958
When did Ezra Pound die?
In 1972
What was the last Cantos that Pound did created?
Canto CXVII
When were John Quinn’s copies of the manuscript and typescript pages of the Wasteland assumed lost?
From 1924 to 1968
Who did Eliot give the manuscript and typescript pages of The Wasteland to?
John Quinn
What institution had the manuscript and typescript in its collection since 1958?
The Berg Collection of the New York Public Library
What did Pound do for the rest of his life after his release from St. Elizabeth’s?
Lapsed into public silence
How many parts does Hugh Selwyn Maulbery consist of?
Two main parts
What does the first part of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley run from?
Ode to Envoi (1919)
What does the second part of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley run from?
Mauberley 1920 and ends with Medallion
How many shorter segments are in the first part of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley?
13 short segments
How many shorter segment are in the second part of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley?
Five in the second part
What was Eliot’s last major poem before his work on The Cantos?
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
What two people are alternate versions of Eliot?
E.P. and Mauberely
What can the entire poem of Hugh Selwyn Mauberely be seen as?
A staged conflict between Pound’s earlier aestheticism and his growing awareness of politics
What is the entire poem of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley constructed out of?
Juxtaposing and paralleling segments
What do the first three segments in Hugh Selwyn Mauberely do?
Offer Pound’s poetic persona and the age in which he lives as their poetic subject
What do the 4th and 5th segments of Hugh Sewlyn Mauberely do?
Pound blasts society in a denunciation of the First World War
What does Hugh Selwyn Mauberely do for segments 7-13 of the first part?
Explores the sources and background of this decay by examining the collapse into mediocrity evidenced in the 19th century and the speaker’s contacts
Who are the speaker’s contacts in Hugh Selwyn Mauberle?
The Jew Brennbaum or Mr. Nixon
What does the speaker do in Envoi of Hugh Selwyn Maubereley?
Bows out of London
What does Medallion serves as in relation to Envoi in Hugh Selwyn Mauberely?
As a counterpoint
What is produced in Medallion?
An image of beauty called for by the entire poetic sequence
What two segments from Hugh Selwyn Mauberely focus on Pound’s revulsion to war?
Segments of 4 and 5
hat are the first three segments in Hugh Selwyn Mauberely structure in?
Quatrains
What are segments 4 and 5 structured in in Hugh Selwyn Mauberely?
In free verse
What is pro doma a reference to?
For the home, a symbolic allusion to an oration by Cicero demanding reparation rom the Roman priests and Senate for the destruction of his house
What does the first stanza in section 4 of end with?
n ellipsis
What does the second stanza provide a stunning example of in the fourth segment of Hugh Selwyn Mauberely?
Anaphora
What is repetition in the first five lines of the second stanza of the 4th segment of Hugh Selwyn Mauberely?
Some
What line is the ellipses in the second stanza of the 4th segment in Hugh Selwyn Mauberely?
The 6th line
What does the third stanza in the 4th segment of Hugh Selwyn Mauberely begin with?
The word died
What ancient Roman does Hugh Selwyn Mauberley mock with his dulce et decorum est pro patria mori?
Horace
What poet does Pound echo with his Dulce et Decorum to the old lie of dying for one’s country?
Wilfred Owen
What are the middle four lines of the third stanza of the third segment of Hugh Selwyn Mauberely dominated by?
The word lies, home and believing
What Jew of Shakespeae’s is a typical moneylender?
Shylcok the Jew
What does the fourth stanza of the fourth segment of Hugh Selwyn Mauberely acknowledge?
The loss of life in all classes
What does the Vth segment of Hugh Selwyn Mauberely offer?
An epitaph for the millions of war dead
What civilization does the word Myriad come from?
Greek
Who is the old bitch in Hugh Selwyn Mauberely?
The British Empire
What does myriad describe?
A quantity that is numberless or infinite, while the English word supports a civilizations inability to provide an accurate count of the millions of war dead
