20世纪英国文学Part V Twentieth-Century Literature.ppt

Part V Twentieth Century Topics of Lectures Imagism and Pound William Carlos Williams Robert Frost Carl Sandburg F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway Imagism It’s a poetic movement of England and the U.S. flourished from 1909 to 1917.The movement insists on the creation of images in poetry by “the direct treatment of the thing” and the economy of wording. The leaders of this movement were Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell. Ezra Pound 艾兹拉·庞德 Contents Life Achievement Famous works Influence factors on Pound and his influence on the world The life of Pound 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 two years later ,transferred to Hamilton College the University of Pennsylvania In 1908 he moved to Europe, living first in Venice but eventually settling in London. Pound self-published A Lume Spento, his first published collection of short poems, while living in Venice. 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 Ezra married the artist Dorothy Shakespear in 1914. In 1920, he moves to Paris and got acquainted with Gertrude Stein and her circle of friends, 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 . 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. In 1958 he returned to Italy,where he continued to write and make translations until he died in 1972. Achievement 1908 Pound travelled widely i