Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an American expatriate poet and critic, who became a major figure of the early modernist movement. His contribution to poetry began with his promotion of Imagism, a movement that derived its technique from classical Chinese and Japanese poetry, stressing clarity, precision and economy of language. His best-known works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920) and his unfinished 120-section epic, The Cantos (1917–1969).
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Lhude sing Goddamm,
Raineth drop and staineth slop,
And how the wind doth ramm!”
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Go also to the nerve-racked, go to the enslaved-by-convention,
Bear to them my contempt for their oppressors.”
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