Ezra Pound.ppt

Ezra Pound LIFE EXEPERIENCE Ezra Pound (1885/10/30 -- 1972/11/1 ) Born in Hailey, Idaho Grew up and was educated mainly in Pennsylvania In 1901 at the age of 15, he entered the University of Pennsylvania, studying Romance languages Two years later, transferred to Hamilton College In 1908 he moved to Europe, living first in Venice but eventually settling in London. In the years before the World War I, Pound was largely responsible for the appearance of Imagism, and coined the name of the movement Vorticism 漩涡主义. In 1920, he moves to Paris and then settled in Italy in 1924. During the second World War ,he leaned in the direction of Mussolini’s fascist totalitarianism 极权主义 Having made anti-American radio broadcasts, he was arrested as a traitor in 1945 . He was sent to the US, where he was deemed mentally unfit to stand trial for treason. Pound was confined for 12 years in a hospital (actually prison) for the criminally insane in Washington. During this time he translated works of ancient Greek and ancient Chinese literature . While in prison ,he was awarded a prestigious poetry prize in 1949 for his last Cantos, which caused a great controversy in America. (博林根诗歌奖Bollingen Prize for Poetry) In 1958 he returned to Italy,where he continued to write and make translations until he died in 1972. ACHIEVEMENTS His contribution to poetry began with his development of Imagism, a movement derived from classical Chinese and Japanese poetry, stressing clarity, precision and economy of language. His best-known works include Ripostes 反击(1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley 休.塞尔温.莫伯利(1920) and the unfinished 120-section epic, The Cantos 诗章(1917–69). Imagism Imagism was a movement in early 20th-century (flourished from 1909 to 1917) Anglo-American英裔美国人poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. It has been described as the most influential movement in English poetry since the activity of the Pre-Raphaelites前拉斐尔派. As a poetic style it gave Modernism its sta