Ezra Pound - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Ezra Pound: Encyclopedia Ii - Ezra Pound - The London Revolution
Pound's early poetry was inspired by his reading of the pre-Raphaelites and other 19th century poets and medieval Romance literature, as ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1945: Encyclopedia - 1945
1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). 1945 - Events. January 5 - The Soviet Union recog...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1972: Encyclopedia - 1972
1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. 1972 - Events. International year of the book January 2 - The Pierre Ho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1949: Encyclopedia - 1949
1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. 1949 - Events. January 2 - Luis Muñoz Marín became the first democratically el...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anglo-saxon Literature: Encyclopedia - Anglo-saxon Literature
Anglo-Saxon literature (or Old English literature) encompasses literature written in Anglo-Saxon (Old English) during the 600-year Anglo-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Poetry Of The United States: Encyclopedia - Poetry Of The United States
Architecture Cinema Comic books Cuisine Dance Literature Music Poetry Sculpture Television Theater Visual arts The poetry of the United S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - April 18: Encyclopedia - April 18
April 18 is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (109th in leap years). There are 257 days remaining. April 18 - Events. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Reputation: Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Reputation
In his own time, William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was seen as merely one among many talented playwrights and poets, but ever since the l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shi Jing: Encyclopedia - Shi Jing
Shī Jīng (Chinese: 詩經), translated variously as the Classic of Poetry, the Book of Songs or the Book of Odes, is the first major co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canto: Encyclopedia - Canto
Other related archivesArtemis Fowl, Bel canto, Byron, Canto General, Canto Inc, Canto Nuevo, Cantonese, Cantonese language, Cantopop, C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blood Axis: Encyclopedia - Blood Axis
Blood Axis is the name under which journalist and author Michael Moynihan composes and releases music. Moynihan formed Blood Axis in 1989...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Beat Generation: Encyclopedia - Beat Generation
The term beat generation was introduced by Jack Kerouac in approximately 1948 to describe his social circle to the novelist John Clellon ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American Literature: Encyclopedia - American Literature
Architecture Cinema Comic books Cuisine Dance Literature Music Poetry Sculpture Television Theater Visual arts American literature refers...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Archibald Macleish: Encyclopedia - Archibald Macleish
Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet, writer, and Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the mo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Allen Upward: Encyclopedia - Allen Upward
Allen Upward (1863 - 1926) was a poet, lawyer, politician and teacher. His work was included in the first anthology of Imagist poetry, De...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mandrake Plant: Encyclopedia - Mandrake Plant
Mandragora autumnalis Mandragora officinarum Mandragora turcomanica Mandragora caulescens Mandrake is the common name for members of the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthology: Encyclopedia - Anthology
An anthology, literally a garland or collection of flowers, is a collection of literary works, originally of poems, but in recent years i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doctrine Of The Mean: Encyclopedia - Doctrine Of The Mean
The Doctrine of the Mean (Chinese: 中庸; Pinyin: Zhōngyōng) is one of the Four Books, part of the Confucian canonical scriptures. Li...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Matriarchy: Encyclopedia - Matriarchy
Matriarchy is a form of society in which power is conceived as lying with the women and especially with the mothers of a community. The w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1885: Encyclopedia - 1885
1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1885...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alliterative Verse: Encyclopedia - Alliterative Verse
In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal stylistic device to unify lines of poetry, as o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Olson: Encyclopedia - Charles Olson
Charles Olson (27 December 1910 - 10 January 1970) was an important 2nd generation American modernist poet who was a crucial link between...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 20th Century: Encyclopedia - 20th Century
The 20th century lasted from 1901 to 2000 in the Gregorian calendar. Common usage sometimes regards it as lasting from 1900 to 1999. The ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ambergris: Encyclopedia - Ambergris
Ambergris (Ambra grisea, Ambre gris, or grey amber), a solid, fatty, flammable substance of a dull grey or blackish colour, the shades be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Robert Frost: Encyclopedia - Robert Frost
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. Frost received four Pulitzer Prizes. Although he is associat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sacred King: Encyclopedia - Sacred King
Roman Mythology Jupiter Mars Quirinus Divus Julius Divus Augustus Juno Vesta Minerva Mercury Vulcan Ceres Venus Diana Lares Fortuna ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Golden Bough: Encyclopedia - The Golden Bough
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging comparative study of mythology and religion by Scottish anthropologist ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Four Books: Encyclopedia - Four Books
The Four Books of Confucianism (not to be confused with the Four Classical Novels of Chinese literature) are Chinese classic texts that Z...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A Moveable Feast: Encyclopedia - A Moveable Feast
A Moveable Feast is a set of memoirs by American author Ernest Hemingway. The book relates anecdotes of his years in Paris as part of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Imagery: Encyclopedia - Imagery
Imagery is any poetic reference to the five senses (sight, touch, smell, hearing, and taste). Essentially, imagery is a group of words th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cheltenham Township Pennsylvania: Encyclopedia - Cheltenham Township Pennsylvania
Cheltenham Township is a township located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. As of the 2000 census, the township had a total population ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Analects Of Confucius: Encyclopedia - Analects Of Confucius
The Analects (Traditional: 論語; Simplified: 论语; Hanyu Pinyin: Lùn Yǔ, or Lún Yǔ as some might insist), also known as the Anale...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Usury: Encyclopedia - Usury
Usury (from the Latin usuria, "demanding in return for a loan a greater amount than was borrowed") was defined originally as charging a f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pictogram: Encyclopedia - Pictogram
A pictogram or pictograph is a symbol representing an object or concept by illustration. Pictography is a form of writing whereby ideas a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Village Voice: Encyclopedia - The Village Voice
The Village Voice is a New York City-based weekly newspaper featuring investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Witter Bynner: Encyclopedia - Witter Bynner
Harold Witter Bynner (August 10, 1881 – June 1, 1968) was an American poet, writer and scholar, known for his long residence in Santa F...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Concrete Poetry: Encyclopedia - Concrete Poetry
Concrete poetry is poetry in which the typographical arrangement of words is as important in conveying the intended effect as the convent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Butler Yeats: Encyclopedia - William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats (June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, mystic and civil servant. Yeats was one of the dr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - D. H. Lawrence: Encyclopedia - D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was one of the most important, prolific and controversial English writers of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Divine Comedy: Encyclopedia - The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy (in Italian "Comedia" or "Commedia", later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri betwe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wyndham Lewis: Encyclopedia - Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis (November 18, 1882 - March 7, 1957) was a British painter and author. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - French Literature Of The 20th Century: Encyclopedia Ii - French Literature Of The 20th Century - Overview
Twentieth century French literature was profoundly shaped by the historical events of the century and was also shaped by -- and a contrib...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Giorgos Seferis: Encyclopedia Ii - Giorgos Seferis - Biography
Seferis was born in Smyrna in Asia Minor (now İzmir, Turkey). His father, Stelios Seferiadis, was a lawyer, and later a professor at the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Free Verse: Encyclopedia Ii - Free Verse - Some Types Of Free Verse
Philip Hobsbaum identifies three major types of free verse: free iambic verse which is an extension of the work of the Jacobean dramatis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Guido Cavalcanti: Encyclopedia Ii - Guido Cavalcanti - Poetry
Cavalcanti is best remembered for belonging to that small but influential group of Tuscan poets that started what is now known as Dolce S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Finnegans Wake: Encyclopedia Ii - Finnegans Wake - Synopsis
Because Joyce's sentences are packed with obscure allusions and puns in dozens of different languages, it's still impossible to offer a d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - George Oppen: Encyclopedia Ii - George Oppen - Oppen The Objectivist
In 1933, the Oppens returned to New York where, together with Williams, Zukofsky and Reznikoff, they set up the Objectivist Press. The pr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Guy Davenport: Encyclopedia Ii - Guy Davenport - Life And Work One Version
Guy Davenport was born in Anderson, South Carolina in the foothills of Appalachia on November 23, 1927. His father was an agent for the R...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Five Enneagram: Encyclopedia Ii - Five Enneagram - Wings
Five Enneagram - Five With A Four Wing: The Iconoclast. The four wing produces an emotional "charge" that complements the five's men...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ford Madox Ford: Encyclopedia Ii - Ford Madox Ford - Ford's Novels
One of his most famous works is The Good Soldier (1915), a short novel which is set just before World War I and which chronicles the trag...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Literature - Poetry
Irish poetry has a long and complex history. The Irish language has one of the oldest vernacular literature and poetry traditions and rep...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Indiana University Bloomington: Encyclopedia Ii - Indiana University Bloomington - Campus
The IU campus is considered one of the most beautiful college campuses in the nation, with its abundance of flowering plants and trees an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - G. K.'s Weekly: Encyclopedia Ii - G. K.'s Weekly - Chesterton As Editor And Campaigner
Chesterton travelled the country to local distributist chapters. There is an account by Marshall McLuhan of how he attended a London Leag...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eustace Mullins: Encyclopedia Ii - Eustace Mullins - Works
During Ezra Pound's period of incarceration in a mental institution following his arrest for making pro-Axis radio broadcasts on behalf o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Imagism: Encyclopedia Ii - Imagism - Early Imagism
In the first ten years of the 20th century, Alfred Austin was the serving British Poet Laureate. Poetry still had a large audience, and v...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - F. R. Leavis: Encyclopedia Ii - F. R. Leavis - Later Life And Career
In 1929 Leavis married one of his students Queenie Roth, and this union resulted in a productive collaboration which yielded many great c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toyotomi Hideyoshi: Encyclopedia Ii - Toyotomi Hideyoshi - Rise To Power
Toyotomi Hideyoshi was born in what is now Nakamura-ku, Nagoya in the Owari province, the home of the Oda clan. He was born with no trace...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Modern Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Modern Literature - Modern Literature 19th Century
The 19th century was perhaps the most literary of all centuries, because not only were the forms of novel, short story and magazine seria...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Epic Poetry: Encyclopedia Ii - Epic Poetry - Notable Epic Poems
Epic poetry - Ancient epics to 600. 20th century BC: The Epic of Gilgamesh (Sumerian mythology) 19th century BC (traditional date): Ra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Anthology: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Anthology - Style And Value
One of the principal claims of the Anthology to attention is derived from its continuity, its existence as a living and growing body of p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Indiana University Bloomington: Encyclopedia Ii - Indiana University Bloomington - Campus
The IU campus is considered one of the most beautiful college campuses in the nation, with its abundance of flowering plants and trees an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - E. E. Cummings: Encyclopedia Ii - E. E. Cummings - Education And Early Career
From 1911 to 1916 Cummings attended Harvard, from which he received a B.A. degree in 1915 and a Master's degree for English and Classical...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - E. Fuller Torrey: Encyclopedia Ii - E. Fuller Torrey - National Alliance On Mental Illness
Torrey was for many years an active advisor for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Although Torrey, TAC, and NAMI remain ali...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jekyll Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Jekyll Island - The Jekyll Island Club
By 1885 Jekyll Island had a new destiny. No longer would it have an agricultural future; it would soon become a playground for the wealth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - James Dean: Encyclopedia Ii - James Dean - Acting Career
Dean began his acting career with a Pepsi-Cola television commercial followed by a stint as a stunt tester in the game show Beat the Cloc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Louis Zukofsky: Encyclopedia Ii - Louis Zukofsky - Early Life And Writings
He was born in New York of Lithuanian Jewish parents and grew up speaking Yiddish. His parents were orthodox and Louis reacted against th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Donnie Darko: Encyclopedia Ii - Donnie Darko - Plot Synopsis
The plot of Donnie Darko is somewhat confusing, and much of it deals with paradoxes which are never explicitly explained. As such, multip...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Divine Comedy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Divine Comedy - Structure And Story
The Divine Comedy is composed of three canticas (or "cantiche"), Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise), compose...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Usury: Encyclopedia Ii - Usury - Ethical Arguments Defending Usury
The primary ethical argument in defense of usury has been the argument of liberty against the "restraint of trade" (since the borrower ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edmund Spenser: Encyclopedia Ii - Edmund Spenser - Poetry
The first poem to earn Spenser notability was a collection of eclogues called The Shepheardes Calendar, written from the point of view of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - English Literature - Jacobean Literature
After Shakespeare's death, the poet and dramatist Ben Jonson was the leading literary figure of the Jacobean era. However, Jonson's aesth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ernest Hemingway: Encyclopedia Ii - Ernest Hemingway - World War I Until The Spanish Civil War
Hemingway left his reporting job after only a few months, and, against his father's wishes, tried to join the United States Army to see a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hamilton College: Encyclopedia Ii - Hamilton College - History
Hamilton began in 1793 as the Hamilton-Oneida Academy, a K-12 school, and was chartered as Hamilton College in 1812. The college was foun...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hailey Idaho: Encyclopedia Ii - Hailey Idaho - Geography
Hailey is located at 43°30'54" North, 114°18'23" West (43.514937, -114.306251)GR1. A TerraServer Aerial Photo from 8/9/1992 According t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Epic Poetry: Encyclopedia Ii - Epic Poetry - Oral Epics Or World Folk Epics
The first epics are associated strongly with preliterate societies and oral poetic traditions. In these traditions, poetry is transmitted...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer: Encyclopedia Ii - Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer - Biography
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer made his début in 1998 with a collection entitled of the square man, a literary multi-course dinner which made a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - James Jesus Angleton: Encyclopedia Ii - James Jesus Angleton - Life And Career
Born to a Catholic mother, Jim Angleton hailed from Boise, Idaho. His father, James Hugh Angleton, was a cavalry officer who worked for N...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Literature - Poetry
Irish poetry has a long and complex history. The Irish language has one of the oldest vernacular literature and poetry traditions and rep...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Poetry: Encyclopedia Ii - English Poetry - The Renaissance In England
The Renaissance was slow in coming to England, with the generally accepted start date being around 1509. It is also generally accepted th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Matriarchy: Encyclopedia Ii - Matriarchy - Matriarchal Societies
Some traditional matriarchal societies have been found to exist still today in every continent, except Antarctica. Several of them have b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lyric Poetry: Encyclopedia Ii - Lyric Poetry - History
The earliest surviving lyric poems in the Western tradition are arguably the Song of Solomon and the Psalms, but there are many fine exam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marianne Moore: Encyclopedia Ii - Marianne Moore - Poetic Career
In part because of her extensive European travels before the First World War, Moore came to the attention of, poets as diverse as Wallace...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Miguel Serrano: Encyclopedia Ii - Miguel Serrano - Biography
Miguel Serrano - Early years. Born Miguel Joaquín Diego del Carmen Serrano Fernández in Santiago de Chile. Educated at the Internado ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - San Francisco Renaissance: Encyclopedia Ii - San Francisco Renaissance - First Beginnings
The poet Kenneth Rexroth is generally considered to be the founding father of the renaissance. Rexroth was a prominent 2nd generation mod...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern World: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern World - Characteristics
The concept of the modern world as distinct from an ancient world of historical and outmoded artifacts rests on a sense that the modern w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mandrake Plant: Encyclopedia Ii - Mandrake Plant - Magic Spells And Witchcraft
Extract from Chapter XVI, Witchcraft and Spells: Transcendental Magic its Doctrine and Ritual by Eliphas Levi. A Complete Translation of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Samuel Beckett: Encyclopedia Ii - Samuel Beckett - Early Writings
He studied French, Italian and English at Trinity College, Dublin from 1923 to 1927, graduating with a B.A. and shortly thereafter took u...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1945: Encyclopedia Ii - 1945 - Events
1945 - January. January 5 - The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland. January 7 - British General Bernard M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesthetics Of Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Aesthetics Of Music - History
In the eighteenth century, music was considered to be so far outside the realm of aesthetic theory (then conceived of in visual terms) th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - D. H. Lawrence: Encyclopedia Ii - D. H. Lawrence - Life
D. H. Lawrence - Early life 1885-1912. The fourth child of Arthur John Lawrence, a barely literate miner, and Lydia, née Beardsall, a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modernism: Encyclopedia Ii - Modernism - Historical Outline
The Modernist Movement emerged in the mid-19th century in France and was rooted in the idea that "traditional" forms of art, literature, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modernism Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Modernism Music - Examples Of Modernism In Music
See: List of modernistic pieces. Modernism music - Expansion and destruction of tonality. Modernist movements include expansion to comm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - T. S. Eliot: Encyclopedia Ii - T. S. Eliot - Life
T. S. Eliot - Early life and education. Eliot was born on the 26th of September 1888 into a prominent family from St. Louis, Missouri. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Waste Land: Encyclopedia Ii - The Waste Land - Composition History
The Waste Land - Writing. Eliot probably started work on the poem that was to become The Waste Land late 1920 or early in 1921. On 7 Fe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Cantos: Encyclopedia Ii - The Cantos - Lxxiv – Lxxxiv The Pisan Cantos
With the outbreak of war in 1939, Pound was in Italy, where he remained, despite a request for repatriation he made after Pearl Harbor. D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Butler Yeats: Encyclopedia Ii - William Butler Yeats - Early Life And Work
Yeats was born in Sandymount, Dublin. His father, John Butler Yeats was descended from Jervis Yeats, a Williamite linen merchant who died...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Objectivist Poets: Encyclopedia Ii - Objectivist Poets - Early Publications
The first appearance of the group was in a special issue of Poetry magazine in February 1931; this was arranged for by Pound and edited b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spanish Civil War: Encyclopedia Ii - Spanish Civil War - Introduction
Chronology 1936 Chronology 1937 Chronology 1938-1939 Bombing of Guernica Battle of the Ebro edit Spanish Civil War - Political backgr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neoclassicism: Encyclopedia Ii - Neoclassicism - Neoclassic In Architecture And The Visual Arts
In the visual arts the European movement called "neoclassicism" began after ca 1765, as a reaction against both the surviving Baroque and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Symbolism Arts: Encyclopedia Ii - Symbolism Arts - Symbolism As A Movement
Symbolism arts - The Symbolist Manifesto. Symbolists believed that art should aim to capture more absolute truths which could only be a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - American Literature - Colonial Literature
Main articles: Colonial American literature, and [[{{{2}}}]], and [[{{{3}}}]], and [[{{{4}}}]]   » Read the article