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
