EzraPoundPPT课件

Ezra pound (1885-1972)
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李姗姗
陈银斐
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Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound(30October18851November1972)was an expatriate American poet and critic who was a major figure of the early modernist movement. His contribution to poetry began with his development of imagism.
⑶Cantos 《诗章》 the intellectual diary since 1915 ~encyclopedic epic poem （学识渊博的史诗性诗歌）
Ezra Pound ′s major works
☆A Lume Spento --1908
☆Personae --1909
☆Des Imagistes --1914
☆ The Spirit of Romance --1910
☆ Homage to Sextus Propertivs --1917 ☆ Hugh Selwyn Mauberley --1920 ☆ The Cantos --1917~1959
Writing style:
Nadel writes that imagism was to change Pound‟s writing style. Pound said poetry require a precise and economic use of language and that the poet should always use the „exact‟ word and expression.

The Cantos of Ezra Pound
• Portions of Pound's major work, Cantos, were first published in 1925; the first complete English edition of all the published segments was issued in 1970 as The Cantos of Ezra Pound. • The Cantos by Ezra Pound is a long, incomplete poem in 120 sections, each of which is a canto. • Most of it was written between 1915 and 1962. • The most striking feature of the text is the inclusion of Chinese characters as well as quotations in European languages other than English.
Legacy
• Even though many people thought politics and writing should be separated, Pound acquired many enemies in the latter period of his life because of his support for Mussolini. • Pound championed and in some cases edited the works of several avant-garde authors writing in England, including the Anglo-American poet T. S. Eliot, the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, and the Irish novelist James Joyce. • Pound also set forth the theories behind the literary movement of imagism.

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Three phases of imagism
Content of Imagism
Origin of Imagism
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Three phrases of imagism
The origins of Imagism are found in two poems, Autumn and A City Sunset by T.E.Hulme. These were published in January 1909 by the Poet’s Club in London.
Famous poems: In a Station of the Metro
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Imagism （1909——1917）
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Imagism is a poetic movement of England and the United States, which flourished from 1909 to 1917. it is a branch of the symbolism literary movement which was used chiefly in The Western World during that time.
“Each word must be an image seen.” “Each sentence should be a lump; a piece of clay, a vision seen.”
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Pound’s definition: “An ‘Image’ is that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.”

Later Life • In 1945, returned to America and was arrested on charge of treason.
• In 1946, acquitted, and declared insane. • In 1958, released from St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington. • In 1972, died in Venice as a recluse.
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Middle Period
From 1913 began his study of the Chinese language and ancient Chinese culture.
In 1914, abandoned imagism in favor of Vorticism; got married.
graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1906
Came into contact with Hulme and his Poets’ Club.
Appointed himself foreign editor of Poetry
Sailed for Europe in 1908.
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➢ Ezra Pound is generally considered the poet most responsible for defining (characterizing) and promoting a modernist artistic poetry.
➢ In the early 20th century, he opened an influential exchange of work and deas between British and American writers, and was famous for the generosity.