“Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous…” — Ezra Pound

“Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.”

Reminding that poetry's origin lies in joy rather than austerity · Essay / critical writing

Ezra Pound

About Ezra Pound

30 October 1885–1 November 1972

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was born on 30 October 1885 in Hailey, in the Idaho Territory of the United States, and died on 1 November 1972 in Venice, Italy. Few writers altered the course of twentieth-century poetry as decisively as he did, and few have left behind a legacy so divided between artistic admiration and…

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