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The Spirit of Romance
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The Spirit of Romance
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| | | Written in 1910 when Pound was only 25 years old, and later revised by the author, this critical work has long stood as an important stage in the development of Pound's poetics, and a dramatic revaluation of Europe's literary tradition. Pound surveys the course of literature from the fall of the Roman Empire through the dawn of the Renaissance, paying special attention to the Provenal poets and to Dante. Now with an introduction by Richard Sieburth, this work illuminates a great period in European literature and one of America's greatest poetic minds.
| Author Bio| Ezra Pound | | Ezra Pound was born in Idaho but raised in Philadelphia, where his father worked for the U.S. Mint. He studied at Hamilton College, majoring in Anglo-Saxon and Romance languages, and received an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. He then taught briefly at a college in Indiana but was forced to resign in 1907 when he was caught entertaining an actress in his room. He went to Europe, writing and publishing his first book of poems and settling eventually in London, becoming a vital part of the Imagist and Vorticist movements and continuing to write. He was also instrumental in helping T. S. Eliot and James Joyce (whom he declared "by far the most significant writer of our decade") published in the magazines "Poetry" and "The Egoist". In 1914 he married Dorothy Shakespear, an artist. In Paris in the '20s, Pound became part of Gertrude Stein's circle and met Hemingway; he served as Eliot's editor in the writing of "The Waste Land" and, in 1922, began his lifelong relationship with Olga Rudge. By 1924, he was living in Italy, where he became influenced by fascism, which he believed would create a world in which the arts would flourish. He was arrested for treason in 1945 and declared insane; he spent the next 12 years at St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the Insane in Washington, D.C. When he was released, in 1958, he said, "How did it go in the madhouse? Rather badly. But what other place could one live in America?") He returned to Italy, and died in Venice at the age of 87. Pound published over 70 books in his lifetime, and was not only a poet but a translator of Japanese plays and Chinese poetry. His 1934 prose work, "The ABC of Reading", is a seminal modernist text. |
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