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Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

Born: 30 October 1885 • Died: 1 November 1972

Ezra Pound is widely considered one of the most influential and most difficult poets of the 20th century; his contributions to Modernist poetry are enormous. He was an early champion of a number of avant-garde and Modernist poets, developed important channels of intellectual and aesthetic exchange between the United States and Europe, and contributed to important literary movements. Pound’s published books include A lume spento (1908), Exultations (1909), Personae (1909), Provenca (1910), Canzoni (1911), Lustra and Other Poems (1917), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), Umbra: Collected Poems (1920), Cantos I–XVI (1925), A Draft of XXX Cantos (1930), Homage to Sextus Propertius (1934), The Fifth Decade of Cantos (1937), Cantos LII-LXXI (1940), The Pisan Cantos (1948), Patria Mia (1950), and The Cantos (1972). (Source)

Poems by Ezra Pound

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And the days are not full enough by Ezra Pound

"And life slips by like a field mouse / Not shaking the grass" — Ezra Pound
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Salutation by Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound

"And I am happier than you are, / And they were happier than I am;" — Ezra Pound
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In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound

“The apparition of these faces in the crowd: / Petals on a wet, black bough.” — Ezra Pound

Poems translated by Ezra Pound

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The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter by Li Po

"I desired my dust to be mingled with yours / Forever and forever and forever." — Li Po