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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness. - Ezra Pound Attribution: Ezra Pound (1885–1972), U.S. poet, critic. “Warning,” prefatory, ABC of Reading (1934).

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Ezra Pound

Titles by Ezra Pound:

• Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
• The Cantos
• The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter

eNotes:

• Ezra Pound (The Cantos)
• Ezra Pound (The Cantos)
• Ezra Pound (Imagism)
• Ezra Pound (The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter)
• Ezra Pound’s Craftsmanship: An Interpretation of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Hugh Selwyn Mauberley)
• Ezra Pound (Hugh Selwyn Mauberley)

American Decades:

• Pound, Ezra 1885-1972 (1940's The Arts)

Encyclopedia:

• Pound, Ezra (Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music)
• Pound, Ezra (The Oxford Dictionary of Art)
• Pound, Ezra [Weston Loomis] (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
• Pound, Ezra Weston Loomis (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Ezra Pound (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• Ezra Pound (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• Ezra Pound (Cyclopedia of World Authors)

Literary Criticism:

• Pound, Ezra (Vol. 5) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Pound, Ezra (Vol. 112) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Pound, Ezra (Vol. 13) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Pound, Ezra (Vol. 3) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Pound, Ezra (Vol. 4) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Pound, Ezra (Vol. 1) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Pound, Ezra (Vol. 7) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Pound, Ezra (Vol. 18) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Pound, Ezra (Vol. 2) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Pound, Ezra (Vol. 10) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Ezra Pound Controversy (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Ezra Pound is born
• Founded by Harriet Monroe in Chicago, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse begins publication; notable early contributors include T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, and Vachel Lindsay
• Ezra Pound publishes Ripostes
• Ezra Pound publishes ABC of Reading
• Ezra Pound is arrested by Italian partisans and U.S. Army personnel for wartime radio broadcasts from fascist Italy; judged mentally unfit to stand trial, he is incarcerated in St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, D.C.
• Ezra Pound publishes The Pisan Cantos
• Ezra Pound is released from St. Elizabeth's Hospital, where he had been confined for many years by the U.S. government
• Ezra Pound dies