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The text traces his early advocacy of avant-garde writers, his critical and translational work that linked the United States and Europe, and his belief in poetry as a guiding cultural force. 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He was an early champion of a number of avant-garde and modernist poets; developed important channels of intellectual and aesthetic exchange between the United States and Europe; and contributed to important literary movements such as Imagism and Vorticism. His life’s work, The Cantos, remains a signal modernist epic. Its mix of history, politics, and what Pound called “the periplum,”that is a point of view of one in the middle of a journey, have given countless poets permission to develop a range of poetic techniques that capture life in the midst of experience. In an introduction to the Literary Essays ofEzra Pound, T.S. Eliot declared that Pound “is more responsible for the 20th-century revolution in poetry than is any other individual.” Four decades later, Donald Hall reaffirmed in remarks collected in Remembering Poets that “Ezra Pound is the poet who, a thousand times more than any other man, has made modern poetry possible in English.” Pound never sought, nor had, a wide reading audience during his lifetime; his technical innovations and use of unconventional poetic materials often baffled even sympathetic readers. Early in his career, Pound aroused controversy because of his aesthetic views; later, because of his political views, including his support for the Fascist government in Italy. For the greater part of the 20th century, however, Pound devoted his energies to advancing the art of poetry.  \nPound was born in Hailey, Idaho, and grew up near Philadelphia. He completed undergraduate work at the University of Pennsylvania and earned his BA from Hamilton College, but he lived much of his adult life overseas. In his article “How I Began,” collected in Literary Essays (1954), Pound claimed that as a youth he had resolved to “know more about poetry than any man living.” In pursuit of this goal, he settled in London from 1908  \nto 1920, where he carved out a reputation for himself as a member of the literary avantgarde and a tenacious advocate of contemporary work in the arts. Through his criticism and translations, as well as in his own poetry, particularly in his Cantos, Pound explored poetic traditions from different cultures ranging from ancient Greece, China, and the continent, to current-day England and America. In The Tale ofthe Tribe Michael Bernstein observed that Pound “sought, long before the notion became fashionable, to break with the long tradition of Occidental ethnocentrism.”  \nIn his efforts to develop new directions in the arts, Pound also promoted and supported such writers as James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and Robert Frost. The critic David Perkins, writing in A History ofModern Poetry, summarized Pound’s enormous influence: “The least that can be claimed of his poetry is that for over 50 years he was one of the three or four best poets writing in English”; Perkins continues, his “achievement in and for poetry was threefold: asa poet, and as a critic, and as a befriender of genius through personal contact.” In a 1915 letter to Harriet Monroe, Pound himself described his activities as an effort “to keep alive a certain group of advancing poets, to set the arts in their rightful place as the acknowledged guide and lamp of civilization.”  \nArriving in Italy in 1908 with only 80 dollars, Pound spent eight to have his first book of poems, A Lume Spento, printed in June, 1908, in an edition of 100 copies. An unsigned review appearing in the May 1909 issue of Book News Monthly noted,“French phrases and scraps of Latin and Greek punctuate his poetry.…He affects obscurity and loves the abstruse.” William Carlos Williams, a college friend and himself a poet, wrote to Pound, criticizing the bitterness in the poems; Pound objected that the pieces were dramatic presentations, not personal expressions. On October 21, 1909, he responded to Williams,“It seems t","cbCaipwctkF691J9","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipwctkF691J9","pdf",579243,13,"English","# Life and influence\n## Modernism and major works\n## Early life and London years\n## Poetic method: the dramatic lyric\n## Major books and critical reception\n## Later critical work","[{\"question\":\"Why is Ezra Pound considered highly influential in 20th-century poetry?\",\"answer\":\"The text credits Pound with enormous contributions to modernist poetry, including major roles in movements such as Imagism and Vorticism, and with work like The Cantos that shaped the possibilities of English modern poetry.\"},{\"question\":\"What is The Cantos described as, and what themes does it combine?\",\"answer\":\"The text calls The Cantos a signal modernist epic and highlights its mixture of history and politics, along with what Pound termed “the periplum,” a point of view developed during a journey.\"},{\"question\":\"How did Pound’s poetic technique evolve according to the document?\",\"answer\":\"It explains that Pound explored the possibilities of the dramatic lyric and expanded the approach into character studies in works like Homage to Sextus Propertius and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, as well as the many figures within The Cantos.\"}]","Ezra Pound - Biography and Literary Influence | PDF",1789940720]