ezra pound

ezra pound was an essayist, musician and critic belonging to the Lost Generation - "Lost Generation" - who preached passionately the rescue of ancient poetry to make it available a modern, conceptual and at the same time fragmented.His monumental work, the Songs, or Canticles, it took much of his life. The critic Hugh Kenner said after meeting Pound: "I suddenly made aware of who was at the center of modernism."Pound was an ardent follower of Benito Mussolini and was criticized for his anti-Semitism. His commitment meant to be condemned Mussolini in 1945.influence: because of their political views, pound was widely criticized in the second half of the twentieth century .However, it is almost impossible to forget the central role he played in the poetic revolution of his time was one of the first poets to successfully employ free verse in extended compositions. The Cantos served as a touchstone for Allen Ginsberg and other Beat Generation.There are critics who believe that almost any English poet experimental turn of the century is indebted to Pound.As a critic, editor and promoter helped Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Robert Foster, William Carlos Williams, HD, Marianne Moore, Ernest Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, Louis Zukofsky, Basil Bunting, George Oppen, Charles Olson, among others.As a translator, however, knowledge of languages is debatable, Pound did much to bring the Provençal and Chinese poetry to English-speaking audiences. He also translated, defended and managed to keep alive, at least for the poets, the Greek classics, Latin and Anglo.In Spain it is very noticeable footprint in many newest and in many of the poets after them.

THE CANTOS

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, . It is a book-length work, widely considered to present formidable difficulties to the reader. Strong claims have been made for it as the most significant work of modernist poetry of the 20th century. As in Pound's prose writing, the themes of economics, governance, and culture are integral to its content.
The most striking feature of the text, to a casual browser, is the inclusion of Chinese characters as well as quotations in European languages other than English. Recourse to scholarly commentaries is almost inevitable for a close reader. The range of allusion to historical events is very broad, and abrupt changes occur with little transition. There is also wide geographical reference; Pound added to his earlier interests in the classical Mediterranean culture and East Asia selective topics from medieval and early modern Italy and Provence
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