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“... often hostile rivalry. During one energetic six-month period he met or made contact with Olson, Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky, and in 1953 began one of the most important artistic relationships of his life, a decades-long correspondence with Denise Levertov. By the end of the 1950s Duncan had already published several books, including a Selected Poems ...”

“... recent recollections, Some Americans), are evidence, not just that Davie will over-forgive Ezra Pound almost anything (‘Lordly men are to earth o’ergiven/these the companions’), but also that he needed to underline the self-abnegation. Sincerity, like patriotism (which Davie has too), is not enough. Moving as these recollections often ...”

“... The language has that quality you see in a Jenny Holzer slogan, and which perhaps was what Ezra Pound was dreaming of when he looked for a new American poetics in the Chinese ideogram. The words at once look and mean like an image. In his earlier books, Coupland tried livening up his pages with wide margins, little drawings, fancy fonts. But these ...”

“... Louis Zukofsky and George Oppen. The three, all Jewish New Yorkers, shared an admiration for Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and a belief, along with Williams, that American modernism should be relocated from Paris and London to the US. Asked to edit an issue of Poetry in 1931, Zukofsky put them together, along with Williams, Carl ...”

“... Wray’s training as a poet, which tends to inflate the market for odd metaphorisations. But then Ezra Pound didn’t say the apparition of those faces in the crowd was like ‘petals on a wet, black bough’, and after a hundred such comparisons, riddling one paragraph after another (‘like bulletholes’, I am tempted to say), the device emerges for ...”

“... in London) Caroline Bergvall alongside that earlier, more self-confident polyglottist, Ezra Pound. Perloff finds a precursor for all this in Walter Benjamin, who during the 1930s collected thousands of quotations (mostly in French) about Paris, its glass and iron shopping arcades, its street fights, its shopgirls, its effects on Baudelaire and ...”

“... I have now read a great many of these anthologies. There is no T.S. Eliot to be found in them. No Ezra Pound. No Wallace Stevens. Everything floats down to a gentle paradox, and here is ours: anthologists who sell emotional progress to their readers hate poetry that constitutes progress in itself. It’s tough news. I know it’s tough. Let me protect ...”

“... as a poem; Williams the Modernist, a foil for experimental painters, or for his difficult friend Ezra Pound. More recently, we have had Williams the avant-garde sentinel, dislocating sense and meaning in the manner of Gertrude Stein, and Williams the multiculturalist, pitting his Spanish-Caribbean heritage against a Eurocentric world. Williams the ...”

“... which is naively strong in Yeats and also, however much more diplomatically, in Eliot. Compared to Ezra Pound, Yeats knew very little about Dante, but the manifesto about the sources of his own poetic authority which he compiled in A Vision could scarcely have been written without the older poet’s example. A ‘system’ was essential to Yeats, to make ...”

“... after the book was printed – so are not our misprints.’) Later, when William suggested that Ezra Pound should edit a selection of Japanese Noh plays, Lolly was infuriated by Pound’s sudden decision to include an extra play in the volume after important calculations had been made and some initial work done. When ...”

“... most crucial patron. Of those who contributed to Hemingway’s career and writing practice, only Ezra Pound emerged unwounded. It is not clear why, though Pound’s imagism (deal with the thing itself, avoid abstract values, cut down on adjectives) was both the single most identifiable ‘influence’ on Hemingway’s ...”

“... obscure and passionate. One fragment of Ibycus reads ‘he flies in the alien void’; another is Ezra Pound in embryo: ‘glory … mad … the sting’. Sappho’s deliciously burning fragment 31 (‘no: tongue breaks and thin/fire is racing under the skin’) survived in Longinus’ treatise On the Sublime, which encouraged a belief in the 18th ...”

“... new husband as ‘a perfectly poisonous Jew’, or crow in 1943 that ‘I’m delighted that Ezra Pound is a “traitor”,’ it’s harder to enjoy the proud ennobling portrait of the Bishop of Santa Fe and his Indian guide. Even during the Second World War, when Cather was quite right to decry the way the world was going, her emphasis sounds ...”

“... to Mallarmé to Coleridge, would agree with her that real poetry involves an objective spirit. Ezra Pound was a bit more down to earth: his great criterion was ‘irrepressible freshness’. Others, human like us, are perfectly OK with the serio-comic heteroglossia of ‘It’s different when you have the hiccups’ (Ashbery) or ‘Sir Thomas ...”

“... represent an unpleasant surprise’. Mantel’s pictorialism can become almost imagist, in the Ezra Pound sense, when she is describing Jane. So when she first touches Henry VIII, ‘her hand, a petal, hovers above his sleeve; then it descends, and flesh grazes embroidery’. Remember Pound’s ‘In a Station of ...”