https://padlet.com/alessandro_vitozzi/x6lyl33m8ies en-us 2018-02-04 13:38:06 UTC 2018-02-04 13:51:50 UTC hello@padlet.com alessandro_vitozzi https://padlet.com/alessandro_vitozzi/x6lyl33m8ies/wish/227848798 2018-02-04 13:39:18 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandro_vitozzi/x6lyl33m8ies/wish/227848798 alessandro_vitozzi https://padlet.com/alessandro_vitozzi/x6lyl33m8ies/wish/227848862 Of all the major literary figures in the twentieth century, Ezra Pound has been one of the most controversial. The importance of Pound's contributions to the arts and to the revitalization of poetry early in this century has been widely acknowledged. Pound devoted his energies to advancing the art of poetry and maintaining his aesthetic standards in the midst of extreme adversity. He settled in London from 1908 to 1920, where he carved out a reputation for himself as a member of the literary avant-garde. His first major critical work, The Spirit of Romance, was, Pound said, an attempt to examine "certain forces, elements or qualities which were potent in the medieval literature of the Latin tongues, and are, I believe, still potent in our own." The writers he discussed turn up again and again in his later writings: Dante, Cavalcanti, and Villon, for example.

]]> 2018-02-04 13:40:05 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandro_vitozzi/x6lyl33m8ies/wish/227848862 alessandro_vitozzi https://padlet.com/alessandro_vitozzi/x6lyl33m8ies/wish/227849015 Another important facet of Pound's literary activity was his tireless promotion of other writers and artists. He persuaded Harriet Monroe to publish T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," calling it in a 1914 letter to Monroe "the best poem I have yet had or seen from an American." In 1921, he edited Eliot's The Waste Land (published 1922), possibly the most important poem of the modernist era. Eliot in turn dedicated the poem to "Ezra Pound, il miglior fabbro" (the better craftsman), and in his introduction to Pound's Selected Poems (1928) declared, "I sincerely consider Ezra Pound the most important living poet in the English language." Other writers Pound praised while they were still relatively unknown included D. H. Lawrence, Robert Frost, H. D., and Ernest Hemingway.]]> 2018-02-04 13:41:44 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandro_vitozzi/x6lyl33m8ies/wish/227849015 alessandro_vitozzi https://padlet.com/alessandro_vitozzi/x6lyl33m8ies/wish/227849774 Poet Ezra Pound was born on October 30, 1885, in Hailey, Idaho. He studied literature and languages in college and in 1908 left for Europe, where he published several successful books of poetry. Pound advanced a "modern" movement in English and American literature. His pro-Fascist broadcasts in Italy during World War II led to his arrest and confinement until 1958.]]> 2018-02-04 13:49:36 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandro_vitozzi/x6lyl33m8ies/wish/227849774