Ezra Pound: An American Odyssey

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Ezra Pound: An American Odyssey

1985

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77172152

The agency provided description reads as follows: In this episode, Ezra Pound appears as a controversial American poets. The episode follows him from America to Venice, to the south of France, and then to London, where he set up a one-man literary center from 1908 to 1918, and became a leader in the Modernist movement. The episode reveals his obsession with economic and political ideas while in Italy during World War II. The producers of this video are the New York Center for Visual History and Lawrence Pitkethly.

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Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972

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Ezra Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem, The Cantos (c. 1917–1962). Pound's contribution to poetry began in the early 20th century with his role in developing Imagism, a movement stressing precision and economy of language. Working in London as foreign editor of several American l...