B.C. 8, and Doolittle at no. It was nearly 30 years—April 1939—before he visited the U.S. [72] He found the New York Public Library Main Branch, then being built, especially offensive and, according to Paul L. Montgomery, visited the architects' offices almost every day to shout at them. Their son Homer, Pound's father, worked for Thaddeus in the lumber business until Thaddeus secured him the appointment as registrar of the Hailey land office. [245], — Ezra Pound, Radio Rome, 15 March 1942[246], Between 23 January 1941[247] and 28 March 1945, Pound recorded or composed hundreds of broadcasts for Italian radio, mostly for EIAR (Radio Rome) and later for a radio station in the Salò Republic, the Nazi puppet state in northern and central Italy. "Ezra Pound's Patchwork". [349] In what John Cohassey called a "controlled, teeth-gritting response", Hemingway replied to Rudge that he would pardon Pound if he could, but that Pound had "made the rather serious mistake of being a traitor to his country, and temporarily he must lie in the bed he made". He also came under the influence of Charles Maurras, who led a right-wing, antisemitic group in France, Action Française. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His study of troubadour poetry—words written to be sung—led him to think modern poetry should be written similarly. "[389], Critics generally agree that Pound was a strong yet subtle lyricist, particularly in his early poetry, such as "The River Merchant's Wife". Flint. [318] Congressman Jacob K. Javits demanded an investigation into the awards committee. [29] Schelling told him he was wasting everyone's time, and he left without finishing his doctorate.[33]. Pound is said to have replied: "Any good I've done has been spoiled by bad intentions—the preoccupation with irrelevant and stupid things." Coats, Jason M. (Spring 2009). On 14 and 15 June he was examined by psychiatrists, after which he was transferred to his own tent. A year later he reduced it to its essence in the style of a Japanese haiku. He wanted to write for the more reputable Corriere della Sera in Milan, but the editor regarded Pound's Italian as "incomprehensible", according to Moody. Pound were a professor of Latin, there would be nothing left for him but suicide" (adding "I do not counsel this"). [267] There were food shortages, no coffee, and no newspapers, telephones, or letters. [414] Several significant biographies appeared in the 1980s: J. J. Wilhelm's three-volume biography (1985–1994); John Tytell's Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano (1987); and Humphrey Carpenter's 1005-page A Serious Character (1988). "[161], Published by John Rodker's The Ovid Press in June 1920,[162] Pound's poem Hugh Selwyn Mauberley marked his farewell to London, and by December the Pounds were subletting their apartment and preparing to move to France. and the gulls be as neat on the pond Elizabeths. [357], Pound and Dorothy arrived in Naples on the Christoforo Columbo on 9 July 1958, where Pound was photographed giving a fascist salute to the waiting press. [194] Pound reportedly believed that artists ought not to have children, because in his view motherhood ruined women. said the Boss, "è divertente." zum Thema, Ideologischer Showkampf einer verirrten Symbolpolitik, Wider den Literaturnobelpreis für Peter Handke, Wir haben wirklich die komischsten Sachen gesehen, Trauen Sie nie den Warnungen lesender Freunde, Die Antwort auf alle Fragen ist in seinen Cantos verborgen, Und seine Mutter strich ihm sanft übers Haar, Feuer und Asche im Mund des tobsüchtigen Troubadours, Großbritannien will junge Freiwillige mit dem Coronavirus infizieren, Die Zahl der Millionäre in Deutschland steigt, Merkel wiederholt Mahnung: „Viel weniger Menschen treffen“, Das verborgene Leben von König Rama X. in Bayern. [18] In his second year he switched from the degree course to "non-degree special student status", he said "to avoid irrelevant subjects". "What Went Wrong between Robert Frost and Ezra Pound". In 1942 he told Italy's Royal Finance Office that he had written the book for propaganda purposes in Italy's interests. [355] The motion was heard on 18 April 1958 by Chief Judge Bolitha Laws, who had committed Pound to St. Elizabeths in 1945. [201] The arrangement meant that the children were raised very differently. [331] In January and February 1957 the New York Herald Tribune ran a series of articles about their relationship, after which the FBI began photographing Pound's visitors. [224], When Pound handed Mussolini a copy of A Draft of XXX Cantos, Mussolini reportedly said of a passage Pound highlighted that it was not English. and Aldington were moving away from Pound's understanding of the movement, as he aligned himself with Lewis's ideas. A suspicion arose in June 1918 that Pound himself had written an article in The Egoist praising his own work, and it was clear from the response that he had acquired enemies. Obwohl sie fast blind ist, empfängt sie zum Gespräch wie stets - perfekt geschminkt. Auden fast hundert Lyriker im Originalton. [73] It was during this period that his antisemitism became apparent; he referred in Patria Mia to the "detestable qualities" of Jews. 58,102, he was transferred to Howard Hall, St. Elizabeths' maximum security ward, where he was held in a single cell with peepholes. They planned to have him awarded the first Bollingen Prize, a new national poetry award with $1,000 prize money donated by the Mellon family. From 1917 he wrote music reviews for The New Age as William Atheling and art reviews as B. H. ), Witemeyer, Hugh (2005). His political views have ensured that his life and work remain controversial. [298] As a compromise, Overholser moved him to the more comfortable Cedar Ward in St. Elizabeths,[299] and in early 1948 he was moved to a larger room in Chestnut Ward. He praised Hitler, recommended eugenics to "conserve the best of the race",[253] and referred to Jews as "filth". The following year Eliot sent him the manuscript of The Waste Land, then arrived in Paris to edit it with Pound, who blue-inked it with comments like "make up yr. mind ..." and "georgian",[177] and reduced it by about half. [5] Known as "Ra Pound" (pronounced "Ray"), he attended Wyncote Public School from September 1894. [118], Shortly after Les Imagistes appeared, an advertisement in The Egoist for Wyndham Lewis's new literary magazine Blast (published only twice, in 1914 and 1915) promised it would cover "Cubism, Futurism, Imagisme and all Vital Forms of Modern Art". Can you enter the great acorn of light?
Before that, the three of them lived in Church Walk, Kensington—Pound at no. catching the point before the aesthetes had got [243] By May 1940, according to the historian Matthew Feldman, the British government regarded Pound as "a principal supplier of information to the BUF [British Union of Fascists] from abroad". Eliot wrote in 1946: "I should like to think that the manuscript, with the suppressed passages, had disappeared irrecoverably; yet, on the other hand, I should wish the blue pencilling on it to be preserved as irrefutable evidence of Pound's critical genius. Pound has shaken the dust of London from his feet with not too emphatic a gesture of disgust, but, at least, without gratitude to this country. [83] There and at other meetings he met Arnold Bennett, Cecil Chesterton, Beatrice Hastings, S. G. Hobson, T. E. Hulme, Katherine Mansfield, and H. G. Two weeks before he died, Pound read for a gathering of friends at a café: "re USURY / I was out of focus, taking a symptom for a cause. [412], Following Eustace Mullins' biography, This Difficult Individual, Ezra Pound (1961), was Life of Ezra Pound (1970) by Noel Stock. Der Hessische Rundfunk sendet jetzt eine Auswahl als Hörfassung. Bringt das was? [408] In advertisements, magazine articles, and critical introductions, Pound's friends and publishers attributed his antisemitism and fascism to mental illness. In Grace Schulman (ed.). Für den Züchter Steffen Schulze hat sie noch ganz andere Vorzüge als ihre opulente Erscheinung. Captain Joseph Wadsworth helped to write the Connecticut constitution.

Daran erinnert Großbritannien mit einem Flickenteppich von Veranstaltungen, der den Zustand der Nation in Zeiten des Brexit widerspiegelt. Omar Pound flew to Venice as soon as he could, with Peter du Sautoy of Faber & Faber, but he arrived too late. Dass die Kompensationszahlungen in die Milliarden gehen würden, stört die Befürworter der Idee nicht im Geringsten. Für die Opfer birgt die Stockholmer Entscheidung eine erschütternde Botschaft.

[38] He annoyed his landlords by entertaining friends and was asked to leave the college in January 1908 after his landladies, Ida and Belle Hall, found a woman in his room. [28], He spent three weeks in Madrid in various libraries, including in the royal palace; he was outside the palace on 31 May 1906 during the wedding and attempted assassination of King Alfonso, and he left the city for fear of being identified with the anarchists. [424], R. Peter Stoicheff (1986): "The Stone Wall/New Directions/Faber & Faber volume of 1968 will be considered the 'first authorized edition' here. [397], "Police Firmness in Nashville". [214] Hitler had used the same term in Mein Kampf (1926).
catching the point before the aesthetes had got, For around 23,000 lines, 800 pages, Milton and Eliot, see Beach (2003), 32; for 116 sections, Stoicheff (1995), 6. [166][k], The Pounds settled in Paris around April 1921 and in December moved to an inexpensive ground-floor apartment at 70 bis Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs. As the poem progresses, the tragic man, never named, becomes the talkative man; the honored man; the old, brave man; the cranky man; the cruel man; the busy man; the tedious man; the poet, the man; and, finally, the wretched man. Direct treatment of the "thing" whether subjective or objective. Witemeyer, Hugh (2001) [1999]. It begins with a satirical analysis of the London literary scene before turning to social criticism, economics, and the war. Nadel cited the importance of Pound's editing of The Waste Land, the publication of Ulysses, and the development of Imagism. (The sentence was removed from the 1950 edition. )[147] The volume of writing exhausted him.[148].

[39] Shocked at having been fired,[40] he left for Europe soon after, sailing from New York in March. "The Lives of Pound". "[320] He advised visitors to read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and any visitor he happened not to like he referred to as Jewish. some in fear, learning love of slaughter; Der Dichter W. S. Merwin ist zweifacher Pulitzerpreisträger, war lange für den Nobelpreis im Gespräch und zeitlebens ein großer Diener der Sprache. [14] He may have attended Cheltenham Township High School for the year 1900–1901. [146] (When Pound lived near St Mary Abbots church in Kensington, he had "engaged in a fierce, guerrilla warfare of letters" about the bells with the vicar, Reverend R. E. Pennefather, according to Richard Aldington.