Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (October 30 1885 – November 1 1972) was an American expatriate, poet, musician and critic who, along with T. S. Eliot, was a major figure of the modernist movement in early 20th century poetry. He was the driving force behind several modernist movements, notably Imagism and Vorticism. The critic Hugh Kenner said on meeting Pound: "I suddenly knew that I was in the presence of the center of modernism."

Selected works

• 1908 A Lume Spento, poems.
• 1908 A Quinzaine for This Yule, poems.
• 1909 Personae, poems.
• 1909 Exultations, poems.
• 1910 Provenca, poems.
• 1910 The Spirit of Romance, essays.
• 1911 Canzoni, poems.
• 1912 Ripostes of Ezra Pound, poems.
• 1912 Sonnets and ballate of Guido Cavalcanti, translations.
• 1915 Cathay, poems / translations.
• 1916 Certain noble plays of Japan: from the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa, chosen and finished by Ezra Pound, with an introduction by William Butler Yeats.
• 1916 "Noh", or, Accomplishment: a study of the classical stage of Japan, by Ernest Fenollosa and Ezra Pound.
• 1917 Lustra of Ezra Pound, poems.
• 1917 Twelve Dialogues of Fontenelle, translations.
• 1918 Quia Pauper Amavi, poems.
• 1918 Pavannes and Divisions, essays.
• 1919 The Fourth Canto, poems.
• 1920 Umbra, poems and translations.
• 1920 Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, poems.
• 1921 Poems, 1918-1921, poems.
• 1922 The Natural Philosophy of Love, by Remy de Gourmount, translations.
• 1923 Indiscretions, essays.
• 1924 Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony, essays.
• 1925 A Draft of XVI Cantos, poems.
• 1927 Exile, poems
• 1928 A Draft of the Cantos 17-27, poems.
• 1928 Ta hio, the great learning, newly rendered into the American language, translation.
• 1930 Imaginary Letters, essays.
• 1931 How to Read, essays.
• 1933 A Draft of XXX Cantos, poems.
• 1933 ABC of Economics, essays.
• 1934 Homage to Sextus Propertius, poems.
• 1934 Eleven New Cantos: XXXI-XLI, poems.
• 1934 ABC of Reading, essays.
• 1935 Make It New, essays.
• 1936 Chinese written character as a medium for poetry, by Ernest Fenollosa, edited and with a foreword and notes by Ezra Pound.
• 1936 Jefferson and/or Mussolini, essays.
• 1937 The Fifth Decade of Cantos, poems.
• 1937 Polite Essays, essays.
• 1937 Digest of the Analects, by Confucius, translation.
• 1938 Culture, essays.
• 1939 What Is Money For?, essays.
• 1940 Cantos LII-LXXI, poems.
• 1944 L'America, Roosevelt e le Cause della Guerra Presente, essays.
• 1944 Introduzione alla Natura Economica degli S.U.A., prose.
• 1947 Confucius: the Unwobbling pivot & the Great digest, translation.
• 1948 The Pisan Cantos, poems.
• 1950 Seventy Cantos, poems.
• 1951 Confucian analects, translated by Ezra Pound.
• 1956 Section Rock-Drill, 85-95 de los Cantares, poems.
• 1956 Women of Trachis, by Sophocles, translation.
• 1959 Thrones: 96-109 de los Cantares, poems.
• 1968 Drafts and Fragments: Cantos CX-CXVII, poems.