
Ezra Loomis Pound (October 30, 1885 – November 1, 1972) was an American poet and critic. His most famous work includes The Cantos and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley.1
Works
Poetry
- A Lume Spento (1908)
- A Quinzaine for This Yule (1908)
- Personae (1909)
- Exultations (1909)
- Provenca (1910)
- Canzoni (1911)
- Ripostes of Ezra Pound (1913)
- Personae and Exultations of Ezra Pound (1913)
- Canzoni and Ripostes of Ezra Pound (1913)
- Lustra of Ezra Pound (1916)
- Quia Pauper Amavi (1918)
- The Fourth Canto (1919)
- Umbra (1920)
- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920)
- Poems, 1918-1921 (1921)
- A Draft of XVI Cantos (1925)
- Personae: The Collected Poems of Ezra Pound (1926)
- Selected Poems (1928)
- A Draft of the Cantos 17-27 (1928)
- A Draft of XXX Cantos (1930)
- Homage to Sextus Propertius (1934)
- Eleven New Cantos: XXXI-XLI (1934)
- Alfred Venison’s Poems: Social Credit Themes (1935) Under pseudonym The Poet of Titchfield Street
- The Fifth Decade of Cantos (1937)
- Cantos LII-LXXI (1940)
- A Selection of Poems (1940)
- The Pisan Cantos (1948)
- The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1948)
- Selected Poems (1949)
- Personnae: The Collected Poems of Ezra Pound (1950)
- Seventy Cantos, Faber (1950)
- Section Rock-Drill, 85-95 de los Cantares (1955)
- Thrones: 96-109 de los Cantares (1959)
- The Cantos (1-109) (1964)
- The Cantos (1-95) (1965)
- A Lume Spento, and Other Early Poems (1965)
- Selected Cantos (1967)
- Drafts and Fragments: Cantos CX-CXVII (1968)
- From Syria: The Worksheets, Proofs, and Text (1981)
- The Collected Early Poems of Ezra Pound (1982)
- Diptych Rome-London (1994)
- Early Poems (1996)
- Ezra Pound: Poems and Translations (2004)
Prose
- The Spirit of Romance (1910)
- Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir Including the Published Writings of the Sculptor and a Selection from His Letters (1916)
- Noh; or, Accomplishment: A Study of the Classical Stage of Japan (1916) With Ernest Fenollosa
- Pavannes and Divisions (1918)
- Instigations of Ezra Pound, Together with an Essay on the Chinese Written Character by Ernest Fenollosa (1920)
- Indiscretions (1923)
- Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony (1924)
- Imaginary Letters (1930)
- How to Read (1931)
- ABC of Economics (1933)
- ABC of Reading (1934)
- Make It New (1934)
- Social Credit: An Impact (1935)
- Jefferson and/or Mussolini (1935)
- Polite Essays (1937)
- Culture (1938)
- What Is Money For? (1939)
- Carla da Visita (1942)
- L’America, Roosevelt e le Cause della Guerra Presente (1944)
- Introduzione alla Natura Economica degli S.U.A. (1944)
- Oro e Lavoro (1944)
- Orientamenti (1944)
- “If This Be Treason…” (1948)
- Patria Mia (1950)
- Literary Essays of Ezra Pound (1954)
- Lavoro ed Usura (1954)
- Brancusi (1957)
- Pavannes and Divagations (1958)
- Impact: Essays on Ignorance and the Decline of American Civilization (1960)
- Selected Prose, 1909-1965 (1973)
- Ezra Pound and Music: The Complete Criticism (1977)
- “Ezra Pound Speaking”: Radio Speeches of World War II (1978)
- Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts (1980)
- A Walking Tour in Southern France: Ezra Pound among the Troubadors (1992)
- Machine Art and Other Writings: The Lost Thought of the Italian Years (1996)
Letters
- The Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941 (1950)
- EP to LU: Nine Letters Written to Louis Untermeyer (1963)
- Pound/Joyce: The Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce (1967)
- Letters to Ibbotsom, 1935-1952 (1979)
- Letters to John Theobald (1981)
- Pound-Ford, the Story of a Literary Friendship: The Correspondence between Ezra Pound and Ford Madox Ford and Their Writings about Each Other (1982)
- Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear: Their Letters, 1909-1914 (1984)
- Pound-Lewis: The Letters of Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis (1985)
- Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky (1987)
- Pound the Little Review: The Letters of Ezra Pound to Margaret Anderson (1988)
- The Letters of Ezra Pound to Alice Corbin Henderson (1993)
- Ezra Pound and James Laughlin: Selected Letters (1994)
- Ezra Pound and Senator Bronson Cutting: A Political Correspondence, 1930-1935 (1995)
- Pound/Cummings: The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and E. E. Cummings (1996)
- Pound/Williams: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams (1996)
- Ezra and Dorothy Pound: Letters in Captivity, 1945-1946 (1998)
- I Cease Not to Yowl: Ezra Pound’s Letters to Olivia Rossetti Agresti (1998)
Translations
- The Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti (1912)
- Selections from Collection Yvette Guilbert (1912)
- Cathay (1915)
- Certain Noh Plays of Japan (1916)
- Twelve Dialogues of Fontenelle (1917)
- The Troubadour Sings (1920) With Agnes Bedford
- The Natural Philosophy of Love (1922)
- To Hio: The Great Learning (1928)
- Confucius: Digest of the Analects (1937)
- Italy’s Policy of Social Economics, 1930-1940 (1941)
- Ta S’eu Dai Gaku Studio Integrale (1942)
- The Great Digest [and] The Unwobbling Pivot (1951)
- Analects (1951)
- The Translations of Ezra Pound (1953)
- The Classic Anthology, Defined by Confucius (1954)
- Pensieri sull’amore (1956)
- Moscardino (1956)
- Women of Tiachis (1956)
- Rimbaud (1957)
- Love Poems of Ancient Egypt (1962) With Noel Stock
See also
External Links
- The Ezra Pound Society
- Ezra Pound Papers at Columbia University (1915-1959)
- Ezra Pound Collection at Emory University
- Ezra Pound Collection at Simon Fraser University (1946-1959)
- Ezra Pound Papers at Yale University
- Academy of American Poets profile
- Goodreads profile
- Poetry Foundation profile
- Works on Internet Archive
- Works on LibriVox
References
1. “Ezra Pound.” Encyclopedia Britannica. Accessed July 29, 2020.