{"product_id":"ezra-pound-poet-volume-i-the-young-genius-1885-1920-paperback","title":"Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume I: The Young Genius 1885-1920 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eA. David Moody\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis first volume of what will be a full-scale biography presents Ezra Pound as a very determined and energetic young genius--at 15 he told his father \"I want to write before I die the greatest poems that have ever been written\"--setting out to make his way both as a poet and as a force for civilization in England and America in the years before, during and just after World War I.\u003cbr\u003e In this lively narrative A. David Moody weaves a story of Pound's early life and loves, his education in America, and his years in London, where he trained himself to become a great poet-learning from W. B.Yeats, Ford Madox Hueffer, and others-and exhorting his contemporaries to abandon Victorian sentimentality and \"make it new.\" Pound was at the center of everything, forming his own Imagiste group, joining with Wyndham Lewis in his Vorticism, championing the work of James Joyce, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, and T. S. Eliot, and constantly on the lookout for new talent as International Editor for Harriet Monroe's \u003cem\u003ePoetry\u003c\/em\u003e magazine. Moody traces Pound's evolution as a poet from the derivative idealism and aestheticism of his precocious youth to his \u003cem\u003eCathay,\"\u003c\/em\u003e based on the transliterations of the Sineologist Ernest Fenollosa, to the stunningly original \u003cem\u003eHomage to Sextus Propertius\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHugh Selwyn Mauberley.\u003c\/em\u003e By 1920 Pound was established as a force for revolution in poetry and in\u003cbr\u003ehis critical writing as a brilliant iconoclast who argued against stifling conventions and the economic injustice of the capitalist system.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003e Ezra Pound: Poet\u003c\/em\u003e gives us illuminating readings of the major early works and a unforgettable portrait of Pound himself-by turns brilliant, combative, selfless, ambitious-and always fascinating.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA. David Moody\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor Emeritus of the University of York and the author of the acclaimed \u003cem\u003eThomas Stearns Eliot: Poet.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 528\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.7 x 9.1 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 18, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52444118778163,"sku":"9780199571468","price":75.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/VG9LOGh6S2xBdDZVYitpaE0zSHJYUT09.webp?v=1758930875","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/ezra-pound-poet-volume-i-the-young-genius-1885-1920-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}