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Ezra Pound is one of the most visible and influential poets of the twentieth century. He is also one of the most complex, his poetry containing historical and mythical allusions, experiments of form and style and often controversial political views. Yet Pound's life and work continue to fascinate. This Introduction, first published in 2005, is designed to help students reading Pound for the first time. Pound scholar Ira B. Nadel provides a guide to the rich webs of allusion and stylistic borrowings and innovations in Pound's writing. He offers a clear overview of Pound's life, works, contexts and reception history and his multidimensional career as a poet, translator, critic, editor, anthologist and impresario, a career that placed him at the heart of literary modernism. This invaluable and accessible introduction explains the huge contribution Pound made to the development of modernism in the early twentieth century.

Preface

How to use this book

1. Life

2. Context

3. Works

4. Critical reception

Guide to further reading

Ira B. Nadel is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound.

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"People quite often think me crazy when I make a jump instead of a step, just as if all jumps were unsound and never carried one anywhere." Pound, 1937-8

Ezra Pound loved to jump, from idea to idea, from culture to culture, from lyric to epic.

… his father, Homer Pound, …

In fact, between the ages of thirteen and twenty-six, Pound made five trips to Europe, extraordinary for a young American, but loosely duplicating the early trips made by the young Henry James.

Pound provided an early explanation of his engagement with Europe and classical culture in 1912 when he wrote of his "struggle to find out what has been done, once for all, better than it can ever be done again, and to find out what remains for us to do…" (LE 11). In this he echoes Matthew Arnold who, in Culture and Anarchy (1869), defined the quest for culture as the search to (2/3) locate the best that has been thought and written in the past. Both Pound and Arnold made classical literature their foundation.

Pound began the University of Pennsylvania in 1901; he was fifteen and independent. Freshman were forbidden from wearing flashy socks but Pound disobeyed and was promptly thrown into a lily pond by second-year students, earning him the nickname "Lily Pound." But nothing would stop Pound from express himself, poetically or politically. His reddish golden beard also drew attention: "I make five friends for my hair, for one for myself" he once remarked (in END 3). At university, he compensated for his youth by being over-confident. His original goal was a Bachelor of Science degree but he gravitated to Romance languages, notably Spanish and Latin. His two closet friends were William Brooke Smith, a young artist who died in 1908 and to whom Pound would dedicate his first published work, and Hi...

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Ezra Pound is one of the most visible and influential poets of the twentieth century. He is also one of the most complex, his poetry containing historical and mythical allusions, experiments of form and style and often controversial political views. Yet Pound's life and work continue to fascinate. This Introduction, first published in 2005, is designed to help students reading Pound for the first time. Pound scholar Ira B. Nadel provides a guide to the rich webs of allusion and stylistic borrowings and innovations in Pound's writing. He offers a clear overview of Pound's life, works, contexts and reception history and his multidimensional career as a poet, translator, critic, editor, anthologist and impresario, a career that placed him at the heart of literary modernism. This invaluable and accessible introduction explains the huge contribution Pound made to the development of modernism in the early twentieth century.