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With Lady Ottoline Morrell, Leonard Woolf and Harry Norton he took part in Ezra Pound's scheme to ' get Eliot out of the bank ' ( Eliot had a job in the international department of Lloyd's, a London bank, and well-meaning friends wanted him full-time writing poetry ).
Pound's involvement with the Imagists marked the beginning of a revolution in the way poetry was written.
Whereas Eliot used " masks " to distance himself from aspects of modern life which he found degrading and repulsive, Pound's personae were poets and could be considered in good part alter-egos who are to be dissociated from " characters " like Malatesta, John Adam, Confucius, or Thomas Jefferson that we find in Pound's later poetry, The Cantos.
Like Pound's, Eliot's poetry could be highly allusive, and some editions of The Waste Land come with footnotes supplied by the poet.
In the early 20th century Ezra Pound's anti-usury poetry was not primarily based on the moral injustice of interest but on the fact that excess capital was no longer devoted to artistic patronage, as it could now be used for capitalist business investment.
In November 1915 ( see 1915 in poetry ), the poem — along with Eliot's " Portrait of a Lady ," " The Boston Evening Transcript ," " Hysteria ," and " Miss Helen Slingsby "— was published in London in Pound's Catholic Anthology 1914 – 1915, which was printed by Elkin Mathews.
She reviewed a wide range of books, but focused especially on contemporary poetry ( for instance, in perceptive reviews of Anna Akhmatova and Pound's Pisan Cantos ).
Kenner played an influential role in raising Ezra Pound's profile among critics and other readers of poetry.
The early reception of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound's poetry, and also the reading of Gerard Manley Hopkins, were considerably enhanced by Leavis's proclamation of their greatness.
Gaudier-Brzeska's drawing style was influenced by the Chinese calligraphy and poetry which he discovered at the " Ezuversity ", Ezra Pound's unofficial locus of teaching.
Pound's early association with Marsden and The Egoist encouraged Pound's nascent interest in the relationship between poetry and politics.
Much critical discussion of the poem has focused on the relationship between, on the one hand, the economic thesis on usura, Pound's anti-Semitism, his adulation of Confucian ideals of government and his attitude towards fascism, and, on the other, passages of lyrical poetry and the historical scene-setting that he performed with his ' ideographic ' technique.
At the core of this passage is the line "( to break the pentameter, that was the first heave )", Pound's comment on the " revolution of the word " that led to the emergence of Modernist poetry in the early years of the century.
's poetry from 1940 onwards takes the form of long sequences, and her Helen in Egypt, written during the 1950s, covers much of the same Homeric ground as The Cantos ( but from a feminist perspective ), and the three sequences that make up Hermetic Definition ( 1972 ) include direct quotations from Pound's poem.
" For three years, out of key with his time / He strove to resuscitate the dead art / Of poetry " resonates with Pound's efforts to write in traditional forms ( e. g., Canzoni, 1911 ) and subsequent disillusionment.

Pound's and because
Olivia set up a stock account for her which was soon depleted because she followed Pound's advice to invest in Italian stock.

Pound's and including
* Extensive criticism page ( including some of Pound's own comments )
New York: New Directions, 1970 ISBN 0-8112-0527-4 )— memoir of Pound's time with Gaudier-Brzeska, including letters and photos of sculpture
In the period to 1925 the Press published works including Pound's A Draft of XVI Cantos, Hemingway's in our time, William Carlos Williams's The Great American Novel, and Distinguished Air by Robert McAlmon.
This is then applied to a number of Pound's dead friends from the London / Paris years, including W. B.

Pound's and text
Although some of Pound's intention to " write a paradise " survives in the text as we have it, especially in images of light and of the natural world, other themes also intrude.

Pound's and poem
One of the most influential of all the modernist long poems was Pound's The Cantos, a ' poem containing history ' that he started in 1915 and continued to work on for the rest of his writing life.
The poem was reprinted in Pound's collection Lustra in 1917, and again in the 1926 anthology Personae: The Collected Poems of Ezra Pound, which compiled his early pre-Hugh Selwyn Mauberley works.
Stourbridge found its way into Pound's Cantos via John Adams the second President of the United States, whose diary entry from 1786 Pound translated into his own epic poem.
Ezra Pound's famous Imagist poem, In a Station of the Metro, was inspired by this station.
In the 20th century Ezra Pound's poem " Homage to Sextus Propertius " cast Propertius as something of a satirist and political dissident, and his translation / interpretation of the elegies presented them as ancient examples of Pound's own Imagist theory of art.
Via the influence of Pound's Na Audiart, he is also mentioned in Sorley MacLean's poem, A ' Bhuaile Ghreine ( The Sunny Fold ).
It brought out the first separately published work of Samuel Beckett, a poem called Whoroscope ( 1930 ) and also Pound's A Draft of XXX Cantos.
However, all of this is complicated by the fact that The Cantos themselves contain very little evidence of Pound's otherwise blatant anti-semitism: in fact, in a close study of the poem, Wendy Stallard Flory concluded that it contained only seven passages of anti-Semitic sentiment in the 803 pages she read.
Critics like Hugh Kenner who take a more positive view of The Cantos have tended to follow this hint, seeing the poem as a poetic record of Pound's life and reading that sends out new branches as new needs arise with the final poem, like a tree, displaying a kind of unpredictable inevitability.
" This reference signalled Pound's intent to close the poem with a final volume based on his own paradisiacal vision.
The resulting book, therefore, can hardly be described as representing Pound's definitive planned ending to the poem.
The poetic response to The Cantos is summed up in Basil Bunting's poem, " On the Fly-Leaf of Pound's Cantos ":

Pound's and also
Laplace also used Pound's observations of Jupiter's satellites for the determination of the planet's mass ; and Pound himself compiled in 1719 a set of tables for the first satellite, into which he introduced an equation for the transmission of light.
Eliot was one of these poets, although it has also been said that ' Imagism ' was the style to which both Pound and Eliot subscribed ( see Pound's Des Imagistes ).
Carter was also present at the 2009 Aldeburgh Festival to hear the world premiere of his song-cycle On Conversing with Paradise, based on Ezra Pound's Canto 95 ( from the section Rock-Drill ) and one of Pound's ' Notes ' intended for later Cantos, and usually published at the end of the Cantos .< ref >
The March 1913 issue of Poetry also contained Pound's A Few Don ' ts by an Imagiste and F. S. Flint's essay Imagisme.
Krayzie Bone also featured on Daz Dillinger's 2008 solo album Only on the Left Side on the song " Meal Ticket " and later on the song " Money Fold ' N " on Tha Dogg Pound's 2009 album That Was Then, This Is Now.
At one end of the spectrum George P. Elliot has drawn a parallel between Pound and Adolph Eichmann based on their anti-Semitism, while at the other Marjorie Perloff places Pound's anti-Semitism in a wider context by examining the political views of many of his contemporaries, arguing that " We have to try to understand why " anti-Semitism was widespread in the early twentieth century, " and not say let's get rid of Ezra Pound, who also happens to be one of the greatest poets of the 20th C ."
The world of nature, Pound's source of wealth and spiritual nourishment, also features strongly ; images of roots, grass and surviving traces of fertility rites in Catholic Italy cluster around the sacred tree Yggdrasil.
A passage deriving polis from a Greek root word for ploughing also returns us to Pound's belief that society and economic activity are based on natural productivity.
In the next generation of American poets, Charles Olson also drew on Pound's example in writing his own unfinished Modernist epic, The Maximus Poems.
Toro also appears in the films Space Jam ( where Daffy paints Pound's butt red, causing Toro to charge at it ), and Looney Tunes: Back in Action.

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