Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound was an American poet and critic, a central figure in literary modernism.
He championed imagism, promoted writers like T.S.
Eliot and James Joyce, and wrote the sprawling, allusive *Cantos*.
His legacy is complicated by his fascist sympathies and antisemitic broadcasts during World War II, for which he was confined to a psychiatric hospital rather than tried for treason.
Innovative cultural pioneers
- The Waste LandFragmented 1922 modernist poem
- UlyssesGreek hero, Latinized
- fragmentationBreaking into smaller pieces
- experimentationSystematic testing of ideas
T.S. Eliot · James Joyce · literary innovation · patronage · Gertrude Stein · Ernest Hemingway
Ultranationalist dictatorial political system
- anti-SemitismHostility toward Jewish people
- treasonBetraying one's nation
- propagandaBiased information for influence
- seditionInciting revolt against government
indictment · incarceration · detention · broadcasts · censorship · repatriation · trial · isolationism
Literary term for China
- verseMetered poetic passage
- translationConverting between languages
- allusionIndirect reference to something
- polyphonySimultaneous independent melodic lines
France's chief city
- LondonEngland's capital city
- VeniceLagoon city, northeastern Italy
- ItalyBoot-shaped European nation
- émigréOne who left home
exile · literary salon · Montparnasse · cosmopolitan · abroad · relocation · sojourner · displaced
Accuracy of measurement
- directnessQuality of being straightforward
- clarityState of being understandable
- economySystem of trade and production
- visualOf or concerning sight
haiku · free verse · juxtaposition · superposition · compression · objectivism
avant-garde
Innovative cultural pioneers
- The Waste LandFragmented 1922 modernist poem
- UlyssesGreek hero, Latinized
- fragmentationBreaking into smaller pieces
T.S. Eliot · James Joyce · experimentation · literary innovation · patronage · Gertrude Stein · Ernest Hemingway
fascism
Ultranationalist dictatorial political system
- anti-SemitismHostility toward Jewish people
- treasonBetraying one's nation
- propagandaBiased information for influence
sedition · indictment · incarceration · detention · broadcasts · censorship · repatriation · trial · isolationism · World War II
Cathay
Literary term for China
- verseMetered poetic passage
- translationConverting between languages
- allusionIndirect reference to something
polyphony · ideogram · troubadours · Confucius · epic · meter · canto
Paris
France's chief city
émigré · exile · literary salon · Montparnasse · cosmopolitan · abroad · relocation · sojourner · displaced · overseas
precision
Accuracy of measurement
- directnessQuality of being straightforward
- clarityState of being understandable
- economySystem of trade and production
visual · haiku · free verse · juxtaposition · superposition · compression · objectivism
- poetspoet, Homer, Dante, Milton, Emily Dickinson
- 20th Century AuthorsErnest Hemingway, Hemingway, William Faulkner, Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- American ModernismGeorgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, Ashcan School, Man Ray, Gertrude Stein
- HemingwaySantiago, Nobel Prize, Key West, Cuba, brevity
- Literary ParisLost Generation, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway
- Lost GenerationLost Generation, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, expatriates
Ezra PoundRobert Frost
Walt Whitman · Maya Angelou · Langston Hughes · Carl Sandburg · Mary Oliver
Ezra Poundanti-fascist
Opposes authoritarian nationalism
Thomas Mann · George Orwell · Albert Camus · W.H. Auden · Pablo Neruda