This first volume of what will be a full-scale biography presents Ezra Pound as a very determined and energetic young genius setting out to make his way both as a poet and as a force for civilization in England and America in the years before, during and just after World War I. A. David Moody weaves a story of Pound's early life and loves, his education in America, and his years in London, where he trained himself to become a great poet-learning from W. B.Yeats, Ford Madox Hueffer, and others--and exhorting his ...
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This first volume of what will be a full-scale biography presents Ezra Pound as a very determined and energetic young genius setting out to make his way both as a poet and as a force for civilization in England and America in the years before, during and just after World War I. A. David Moody weaves a story of Pound's early life and loves, his education in America, and his years in London, where he trained himself to become a great poet-learning from W. B.Yeats, Ford Madox Hueffer, and others--and exhorting his contemporaries to abandon Victorian sentimentality and "make it new." Ezra Pound: Poet offers illuminating readings of the major early works and a unforgettable portrait of Pound himself--by turns brilliant, combative, selfless, ambitious-and always fascinating
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