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    Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry
    Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry
    Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry
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    Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry

    By T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      EZRA POUND: HIS METRIC AND POETRY

      By T. S. Eliot

      BOOKS BY EZRA POUND

      PROVENÇA, being poems selected from Personae, Exultations, and

      Canzoniere. (Small, Maynard, Boston, 1910)

      THE SPIRIT OF ROMANCE: An attempt to define somewhat the charm of the pre-renaissance literature of Latin-Europe. (Dent, London, 1910; and Dutton, New York)

      THE SONNETS AND BALLATE OF GUIDO CAVALCANTI. (Small, Maynard,

      Boston, 1912)

      RIPOSTES. (Swift, London, 1912; and Mathews, London, 1913)

      DES IMAGISTES: An anthology of the Imagists, Ezra Pound,

      Aldington, Amy Lowell, Ford Maddox Hueffer, and others

      GAUDIER-BRZESKA: A memoir. (John Lane, London and New York, 1916)

      NOH: A study of the Classical Stage of Japan with Ernest

      Fenollosa. (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1917; and Macmillan,

      London, 1917)

      LUSTRA with Earlier Poems. (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1917)

      PAVANNES AHD DIVISIONS. (Prose. In preparation: Alfred A. Knopf,

      New York)

      EZRA POUND: HIS METRIC AND POETRY

      I

      All talk on modern poetry, by people who know, wrote Mr. Carl Sandburg in Poetry, ends with dragging in Ezra Pound somewhere. He may be named only to be cursed as wanton and mocker, poseur, trifler and vagrant. Or he may be classed as filling a niche today like that of Keats in a preceding epoch. The point is, he will be mentioned.

      This is a simple statement of fact. But though Mr. Pound is well known, even having been the victim of interviews for Sunday papers, it does not follow that his work is thoroughly known. There are twenty people who have their opinion of him for every one who has read his writings with any care. Of those twenty, there will be some who are shocked, some who are ruffled, some who are irritated, and one or two whose sense of dignity is outraged. The twenty-first critic will probably be one who knows and admires some of the poems, but who either says: Pound is primarily a scholar, a translator, or Pound's early verse was beautiful; his later work shows nothing better than the itch for advertisement, a mischievous desire to be annoying, or a childish desire to be original. There is a third type of reader, rare enough, who has perceived Mr. Pound for some years, who has followed his career intelligently, and who recognizes its consistency.

      This essay is not written for the first twenty critics of literature, nor for that rare twenty-second who has just been mentioned, but

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