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Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound was an influential American poet and critic who played a pivotal role in the Modernist movement of the early 20th century. Best known for his ambitious, lifelong work "The Cantos," Pound experimented with fragmented forms, polyglot texts, and musical rhythms in poetry. His critical essays and translations also shaped literary discourse, particularly his advocacy for precision in language and rhythm.

Pound's work drew heavily on musical structures and multilingual traditions, particularly troubadour poetry, which he studied extensively. He emphasized the symbiotic relationship between sound and meaning, often analyzing poetic rhythm through musical notation. His translations spanned ten languages, though he believed certain poets like Catullus and François Villon resisted translation and required musical interpretation instead. This interdisciplinary approach made Pound a central figure in modernist experimentation.

Throughout his career, Pound mentored emerging writers and championed innovative techniques that redefined modern poetry. His critical insights on rhythm and diction continue to influence contemporary poetic practice. Though controversial for his political views, Pound's literary contributions remain essential to understanding modernist literature.
Collections
# Title Year
1 A Lume Spento 1908
2 A Quinzaine For This Yule 1908
3 Exultations 1909
4 Personae 1909
5 The Spirit of Romance 1910
6 Provenca 1910
7 Canzoni 1911
8 Ripostes 1912
9 Ripostes (With: T.E. Hulme) 1912
10 The Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti 1912
11 Cathay 1915
12 Cathay (With: Ernest Fenollosa, Li Bai) 1915
13 Lustra 1916
14 Certain Noble Plays of Japan 1916
15 Noh, Or, Accomplishment: A Study of the Classical Stage of Japan 1917
16 Noh, Or, Accomplishment: A Study of the Classical Stage of Japan (With: Ernest Fenollosa) 1917
17 Pavannes and Divagations 1918
18 Quia Pauper Amavi 1919
19 Hugh Selwyn Mauberley 1920
20 Umbra 1920
21 Instigations: Together with An Essay on the Chinese Written Character 1920
22 Instigations: Together with An Essay on the Chinese Written Character (With: Ernest Fenollosa) 1920
23 Poems 1918-21 Including Three Portraits And Four Cantos 1921
24 The Waste Land 1922
25 Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony, with Supplementary Notes 1924
26 Selected Poems of Ezra Pound 1928
27 A Draft of XXX Cantos 1930
28 How to Read 1931
29 ABC of Economics & Social Credit: An Impact 1933
30 ABC of Reading 1934
31 Make It New: Essays 1935
32 Polite Essays 1937
33 Guide to Kulchur 1938
34 The Pisan Cantos 1949
35 Confucius: The Great Digest, The Unwobbling Pivot, The Analects 1951
36 The Classic Anthology Defined By Confucius 1954
37 Drafts & Fragments Of Cantos Cx Cxvii 1968
38 The Cantos of Ezra Pound 1970
39 Selected Prose 1909-1956 1973
40 Selected Poems, 1908-1969 1975
41 Ezra Pound and music: the complete criticism 1976
42 Ezra Pound Speaking: Radio Speeches of World War II 1978
43 Pound's Cavalcanti: An Edition of the Translations, Notes, and Essays 1983
44 Ezra Pound: Poems 1983
45 Ezra Pound's Economic Correspondence, 1933-1940 2007
Non-Fiction Books
# Title Year
1 Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir 1916
Ezra Pound Letters
# Title Year
1 Selected Letters, 1907-1941 1950
2 Pound-Joyce: The Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce With Pound's Critical Essays and Articles About Joyce 1969
3 Letters to Ibbotson, 1935-1952 1979
4 Ezra Pound And Dorothy Shakespear: Their Letters: 1910-1914 1984
5 Pound / Lewis: The Letters of Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis 1985
6 Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters 1987
7 Ezra Pound and James Laughlin: Selected Letters 1989
8 The Letters of Ezra Pound to Alice Corbin Henderson 1993
9 Pound / Williams: Selected Letters 1996
10 Pound / Cummings: The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and E. E. Cummings 1996
11 Dear Uncle George: Correspondence Between Ezra Pound & Congressman Tinkham of Massachusetts 1996
12 I Cease Not to Yowl: Ezra Pound's Letters to Olivia Rossetti Agresti 1998
13 Ezra and Dorothy Pound: Letters in Captivity, 1945-46 1999
14 Ezra Pound's Letters to William Watt 2001
15 The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and Senator William Borah 2001
16 Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends: Stories in Letters 2008
17 The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and the Frobenius Institute, 1930-1959 2014
Ezra Pound Anthologies
# Title Year
1 Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews 1957
2 The Caedmon Treasury of Modern Poets Reading Their Own Poetry 1992
3 Earth-Shattering Poems 1998
4 The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry 2003
5 The Lost Generation Reader: Expatriate American Writers in Europe, 1900 - 1950 2004
6 Writers: Their Lives and Works 2018