Ezra Pound

Emily Dickinson. The emphases on literature that these American Renaissance writers had was both historical and cultural, having a great impact on the new America. “He is American, his crudity is an exceeding great stench, but it is America” (Ezra Pound). Walt Whitman is often praised as one of America’s greatest poets, he revolutionized style, his being very unconventional, he ignored the use of structure and rhyme (poets.org). Whitman often went against the societal norm and really changed…

farming, marrying Elinor Miriam White, and raising children. It was not until Frost’s later years that Frost began to write again. Frost’s second publication happened in 1913, when Frost was 39 years old, by publisher Ezra Pound. This second publication was a story named A Boy’s Will. Pound definitely helped Frost advance in the writing career…

wanderlust years, in western China he meet a Taoist mystic named Ssu Ma Ch’eng-cheng, who takes Li Bai as his student. He becomes associated and a well-known practitioner of Taoism and embodies it through his poetry. At age twenty-nine in 730 A.D., he makes the first of four marriages and lives in Hupei. Li Bai was born free and his vision in life was to be free. He wanted to be great, but in his own personal path. “ Li Po was an obscure person who greatest hope of advancement lay in convincing…

Famous Russian author and poet, Boris Pasternak once said, “Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary” (Literature Quotes). In other words, literature is an important art form in which something average can become much more. This is completely accurate in the case of classic literature, especially the novel, The Awakening, written by 19th Century feminist writer, Kate Chopin. Classic literature is…

Walt Whitman was born in eighteen nineteen in West Hills, New York. The second of nine kids, which would eventually fall to seven, his family suffered tremendous financial difficulties. While his father was a gifted builder and craftsman, their rural location, and their financially struggling neighbors, made it nearly impossible to maintain a steady income. Ultimately, at eleven, Whitman was forced to leave school to work in printing. Often, Whitman described his childhood as ‘miserable’ because…

uncertainty and disturbance is attached and felt , in its epochs. Such a burgeoning and exhilarating approach for the Bourgeoisie upliftment is felt during this period, however it is important to note that it is during the modernism era that the works of Ezra Pound, WH Auden, Sartre,Trotsky (to name a few ) came in to the fore who were highly influenced by Karl Marx and Gustavo Flaubert. Marx and Flaubert were self reflexively experienced and wrote about the subjective world of capitalism .They…

farm and moved to England where he hoped to pursue a career in poetry. There, he met with publishers who agreed to publish two of his poetry collections, A Boy’s Will and North of Boston. He also made friends with several famous poets, including Ezra Pound and Edward Thomas. The Frost family returned to the United States at the start of World War…

Ezra Pound wrote to Editor Monroe about H.D’s poems: “This is the sort of… stuff that I can show here…without its being ridiculed. Objective – no slither; direct – no excessive use of adjectives; no metaphors that won’t permit examination. It’s straight talk…

How did Amy Lowell shape contemporary trends in american poetry? A quote of Amy Lowell shows both her determined personality and her sense of humor: "God made me a business woman, and I made myself a poet." During her career that spanned only twelve or so years, she wrote and published over 650 poems, but she is most often recognized for her work to open American readers up to contemporary trends in poetry. "Poet, propagandist, lecturer, translator, biographer, critic . . . her verve is almost…

After the disillusionment with the American lifestyle, lost generation members felt the alienation in their homeland. The feeling that they have no connection with the American inhabitants had grown up. In December 1919, Hemingway spent the winter in Toronto, Canada, and began to write stories to The Toronto Star. In the summer of 1920, He moved to Chicago where he wrote articles for a local magazine. After a year of working in the city, he began planning to leave the constraints of the American…