Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound (1913)

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (* 30. Oktober 1885 in Hailey, Blaine County, Idaho; † 1. November 1972 in Venedig) war ein amerikanischer Dichter. Er gilt als einer der herausragenden Vertreter der literarischen Moderne. Sein Hauptwerk ist The Cantos. Er propagierte vor 1914 den Imagismus und den Vortizismus. Während seines Italienaufenthalts von 1924 bis 1945 bewunderte und unterstützte er den italienischen Faschismus.

Poems (17)

An Immorality

Sing we for love and idleness, / Naught else is worth the having. …
Ballad for Gloom

For god, our God, is a gallant foe / That playeth behind the veil. …
Ballad of the Goodly Fere

Ha’ we lost the goodliest fere o’ all / For the priests and the gallows tree? …
Dance Figure

Dark-eyed, / o woman of my dreams, …
Exile's Letter

So-kin of Rakuho, ancient friend, I now remember / That you built me a special tavern, …
From "Near Perigord"

I loved a woman. The stars fell from heaven. / And always our two natures were in strife. …
Further Instructions

Come, my songs, let us express our baser passions. / Let us express our envy for the man with a steady job and no worry about the future. …
Greek

Be in me as the eternal moods / of the bleak wind, and not …
La Fraisne

For i was a gaunt, grave councillor, / Being in all things wise, and very old; …
Ortus

How have I labored? / How have I not labored …
Piccadilly

Beautiful, tragical faces— / Ye that were whole, and are so sunken; …
The Coming of War: Actaeon

An image of Lethe, / and the fields …
The Garret

Come let us pity those who are better off than we are. / Come, my friend, and remember …
The Return

See, they return; ah, see the tentative / Movements, and the slow feet, …
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter

While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead / I played about the front gate, pulling flowers. …
The Study in Aesthetics

The very small children in patched clothing, / Being smitten with an unusual wisdom, …
Villanelle: The Psychological Hour

I / i had over-prepared the event— …