“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... Homer, as his name announces, is one figure of the writer; and Langley is another. It was Ezra Pound who said, ‘Literature is news that STAYS news,’ but Doctorow too has something of the Langley about him, with the encyclopedic drive of his imagination, his life’s-work anthology of representative moments of American civilisation. And in ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... The Golden Bowl. After his death in 1916 his reputation rose steadily, buoyed by T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound in the 1920s and later by R.P. Blackmur and Lionel Trilling among other critics, who brought about the ‘James Revival’ which began in the 1940s and is still going strong. James did much in his lifetime to build up a name a developer could use ...”

“... In Prague Kafka became ill; in Dublin Yeats’s pregnant wife, Georgie, was stricken, as was Ezra Pound in London. In Zamora in north-west Spain the bishop ordered a novena – the community was to gather for nine consecutive evenings to pray to St Rocco, patron saint of pestilence, and to kiss his relics. Observant locals noted that afterwards ...”