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Ezra Pound refers to Tyro in The Cantos.

Ezra Pound refers to him near the beginning of Canto 74 ( the first of the Pisan Cantos ): " To build the city of Dioce whose terraces are the color of stars.

In answer to a question about his advice for the young, University of Pennsylvania alumnus Ezra Pound refers to the Punch Bowl in a 1962 issue of The Paris Review.

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Pound further compared the situation of labor legislation in his time to common opinion of usury and that the two were " of the same type " ( 484 ).

Pound trained his sister's son, James Bradley, and many of their observations were made together, including the opposition of Mars in 1719, and the transit of Mercury on 29 October 1723.

Ford was included at least partly because of his strong influence on Pound, as the younger poet made the transition from his earlier, Pre-Raphaelite-influenced style towards a harder, more modern way of writing.

Robert John Downey, Jr. ( born April 4, 1965 ) is an American actor who made his screen debut at the age of five, appearing in his father's film Pound.

He made his acting debut at the age of five, playing a sick puppy in the absurdist comedy Pound ( 1970 ), and then at age seven appeared in the surrealist Greaser's Palace ( 1972 ).

In this position he acquiesced in Major's decision to join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism ( ERM ) at a central parity of 2. 95 Deutschmarks to the Pound, although neither he or any other Cabinet ministers were involved or informed about the decision before it had been made.

In 1820, he engraved a George III Five Pound piece, of which only 25 specimens were officially made ; however on the death of the king, a few more were authorised.

The grammar of Chinese offers different expressive possibilities than English, a point that Pound subsequently made much of.

The following year, he published " A Wrong Turning in American Poetry ", an essay in which he made a case against the influences of Eliot, Pound, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams, in favour of the more direct work of writers such as Pablo Neruda, César Vallejo, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Antonio Machado, and Rainer Maria Rilke.

When the University of Berlin awarded an honorary degree to Roscoe Pound, who had made no secret of his admiration for the Nazi regime, Conant refused to order Pound not to accept it, and attended the award ceremony.

Daughter Allyson and son Robert Jr. each made their film debuts in the 1970 absurdist comedy Pound at the ages of 7 and 5, respectively ; Allyson would appear in one more film by her father, Up the Academy.

After Kim's death, Dorian lived in Pound Ridge, New York, where she made pâtés for delicatessens and specialty food shops, according to a profile in The New York Times by Enid Nemy.

Tha Dogg Pound is a rap group made up of Daz Dillinger and Kurupt.

In January 2005, Daz made another solo album release titled Tha Dogg Pound Gangsta LP.

( short for Dogg Pound Gangsta Crips ), is made up of Tha Dogg Pound, Snoop Dogg, Big C-ctyle, Technique, Nate Dogg, Bad Azz, Lil ' ½ Dead, RBX, Lil ' C-Style, Soopafly, Tha Eastsidaz, and others.

Tha Dogg Pound made a diss towards The Bone Thugs, on the song " Dogg Pound Gangstaz ", with Kurupt's line " Ain't got no love for no hoes in harmony.

In response to Eazy-E's Real Muthaphukkin G's and Kokane & Cold 187um's " Don't Bite The Funk ", Tha Dogg Pound along with Snoop Dogg made a track called " What Would You Do " with such lines as: " Fuck B. G.

Recently, tha Dogg Pound has been involved in various side projects ; Kurupt announced the formation of supergroup 1st Generation, made up of himself, King Tee, Sir Jinx, Gangsta of tha Comradz and MC Eiht and producer Tha Chill of Compton's Most Wanted.

When Ezra Pound visited the Schwarzwald residence, Brandt made his portrait.

Church Lane was bypassed when a new road was made directly south from Pound Hill junction to join the old road at the bottom of the hill near Frogshole Farm.

The " Third Pound Whopper " made a return in the early 2000s, but has since been discontinued again.

In 2010 a Canadian film which was heavily based on the film Scum was made called Dog Pound.

" Pound came to this position partly through long debates with his former colleague at the University of Nebraska, the rising sociologist Edward A. Ross.

While modernist poetry in English is often viewed as an American phenomenon, with leading exponents including Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, H. D., and Louis Zukofsky, there were important British modernist poets, including David Jones, Hugh MacDiarmid, Basil Bunting, and W. H. Auden.

The local currency is the Saint Helena pound, which is equivalent to 100 pence, and is at a par with the British Pound.

Other prominent academics associated with the University include Geoffrey Bennington, the creator of the MA programme in Modern French Thought ( Derrida, Lyotard ); Homi K. Bhabha ( postcolonialism ); Rachel Bowlby ( feminism, Woolf, Freud ); Geoff Cloke FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry ); Jonathan Dollimore ( Renaissance literature, gender and queer studies ); Katy Gardner ( social anthropology ); Gabriel Josipovici ( Dante, the Bible ); Michael Land FRS ( Animal Vision-Frink Medal )); Michael Lappert FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry ); Alan Lehmann FRS ( Genetics and Genome Stability ); ( Laura Marcus ( Woolf ); John Murrell FRS ( Theoretical Chemistry ); Peter Nicholls ( Pound, modernism ); John Nixon FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry )); Laurence Pearl FRS ( Structural Biology ); Guy Richardson FRS ( Neuroscience ); Jacqueline Rose ( feminism, psychoanalysis ); Nicholas Royle ( modern literature and theory ; deconstruction ); Alan Sinfield ( Shakespeare, sexuality, queer theory ); Norman Vance ( Victorian, classical reception ); Richard Whatmore & Knud Haakonssen ( intellectual historians ); Gavin Ashenden ( Senior Lecturer in English, University Chaplain, and Chaplain to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II ; Cedric Watts ( Conrad, Greene ); Marcus Wood ( postcolonialism ).

" From that year until 1916, the two men wintered in the Stone Cottage at Ashdown Forest, with Pound nominally acting as Yeats's secretary.

The relationship got off to a rocky start when Pound arranged for the publication in the magazine Poetry of some of Yeats's verse with Pound's own unauthorised alterations.

A more indirect influence was the scholarship on Japanese Noh plays that Pound had obtained from Ernest Fenollosa's widow, which provided Yeats with a model for the aristocratic drama he intended to write.

The prints also influenced early Modernist poetry in many important ways, with Imagist poets such as Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington and Amy Lowell allowing them strongly to influence their imagery and aesthetic sentiments.

Take Tin Ice-Pots, fill them with any Sort of Cream you like, either plain or sweeten ’ d, or Fruit in it ; shut your Pots very close ; to six Pots you must allow eighteen or twenty Pound of Ice, breaking the Ice very small ; there will be some great Pieces, which lay at the Bottom and Top: You must have a Pail, and lay some Straw at the Bottom ; then lay in your Ice, and put in amongst it a Pound of Bay-Salt ; set in your Pots of Cream, and 93 lay Ice and Salt between every Pot, that they may not touch ; but the Ice must lie round them on every Side ; lay a good deal of Ice on the Top, cover the Pail with Straw, set it in a Cellar where no Sun or Light comes, it will be froze in four Hours, but it may stand longer ; then take it out just as you use it ; hold it in your Hand and it will slip out.

He helped T. S. Eliot in a practical way, by persuading Harriet Shaw Weaver to appoint Eliot as his successor at The Egoist ( helped by Pound ), and later in 1919 with an introduction to the editor Bruce Richmond of the Times Literary Supplement, for which he reviewed French literature.

The Georgian poets, who ( Pound had decided ) were the Imagists ' sworn enemies, he devastated with the accusation of "' The Georgians were regional in their outlook and in love with littleness.

Early in his career, he briefly became involved in the Imagist movement through his friendships with Ezra Pound and H. D.

Railroading has also been a popular theme, with ballads such as " Wreck of the Old 97 " and " Nine Pound Hammer " ( from the legend of John Henry ) being exemplary.

During the 1920s, her salon at 27 Rue de Fleurus, with walls covered by avant-garde paintings, attracted many of the great writers of the time, including Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Thornton Wilder, and Sherwood Anderson.

The Trouble with Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky.

# Arabic ( also Arabist or Hispano-Arabic ) Referring to the songs of the troubadours, Ezra Pound wrote in his Canto VIII that William of Aquitaine " had brought the song up out of Spain / with the singers and viels ".

Flintheart, like Scrooge, keeps a percentage of his fortune in his own Money Bin, identical to that of Scrooge ( with the exception of the external logo: a Dollar sign on McDuck's and a Pound sign on Glomgold's ), while the rest of his fortune is invested in a worldwide financial empire of his own that equals that of Scrooge ( though Scrooge's main sources of wealth are his industries while Flintheart's are his diamond mines ).

Ezra Pound references Elpenor in his poem Hugh Selwyn Mauberley by having the eponymous poet's grave marked by an oar, with an epitaph that recalls that of Elpenor's.

* Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, ashes, with those of his wife, scattered at sea ; commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cremation memorial here.

The symbolist poets wished to liberate techniques of versification in order to allow greater room for " fluidity ", and as such were sympathetic with the trend toward free verse, as evident by the poems of Gustave Kahn and Ezra Pound.

Through his friendship with Laurence Binyon, Pound had already developed an interest in Japanese art by examining Nishiki-e prints at the British Museum, and he quickly became absorbed in the study of related Japanese verse forms.