Imagism was a brief, complex yet influential poetic movement of the early 1900s, a time of reaction against late nineteenth-century poetry which Ezra Pound, one of the key imagist poets, described as ‘a doughy mess of third-hand Keats, Wordsworth … half-melted, lumpy’. In contrast, imagist poetry, although riddled with conflicting definitions, was broadly characterized by brevity, precision, purity of texture and concentration of meaning: as Pound stated, it should ‘use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something … it does not use images as ornaments. The image itself is the speech’. It was this freshness and directness of approach which means that, as Peter Jones says in his invaluable Introduction, ‘imagistic ideas still lie at the centre of our poetic practice’.

Imagist Poetry (Penguin Classics)

Literature & Fiction

H.D.

Ford, Madox Ford

Amy, Lowell

Ezra, Pound

Marianne, Moore

Richard, Aldington

D.H.Lawrence

James, Joyce

Edward Storer

T.E. Hulme

John Cournos

Skipwith Cannell

John Gould Fletcher

F.S. Flint

Poetry

Penguin Uk

In her third literary Baedeker, Alice Leccese Powers–editor of Italy in Mind and Ireland in Mind–explores France through the senses and sensibilities of thirty-three British and American authors. The food and the people, the culture and viniculture, the architecture and the expatriates, the pleasures (and frustrations) of France are described by intrepid travelers who also happen to be brilliant essayists, poets, and novelists. From Gertrude Stein’s Paris to Ezra Pound’s Pyrenees; from Tobias Smollett, who grumbled, to Peter Mayle, who settled in; and from Edith Wharton on falling in love to David Sedaris on falling over French grammar–here is France in all its splendor in the words of some of the best and most entertaining writers in the English language. Henry Adams • James Baldwin • Elizabeth Bishop • Mary Blume • James Fenimore Cooper • Charles Dickens • Lawrence Durrell • Lawrence Ferlinghetti • M. F. K. Fisher • F. Scott Fitzgerald • Janet Flanner • Adam Gopnik • Joanne Harris • Ernest Hemingway • Washington Irving • Henry James • Thomas Jefferson • Stanley Karnow • Peter Mayle • Mary McCarthy • Jan Morris • Ezra Pound • David Sedaris • Tobias Smollett • Gertrude Stein • Robert Louis Stevenson • Paul Theroux • Gillian Tindall • Calvin Trillin • Mark Twain • Edith Wharton • Richard Wilbur • William Carlos Williams

France in Mind: An Anthology: From Henry James, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway to Peter Mayle and Adam Gopnik--A Feast of British and American Writers Celebrate France

Henry, James

Washington, Irving

DAVID SEDARIS

PETER MAYLE

mary-mccarthy

Thomas, Jefferson

Janet Flanner

jan-morris

United States

Vintage

Ezra Pound and James Laughlin: Selected Letters is a modernist source book - essential reading for anyone interested in tracing the real development of twentieth-century literature. Even before establishing "New Directions", James Laughlin had met and studied with Ezra Pound. These selected letters capture the spirit of their growing relationship from pupil and teacher to publisher and author. Pound's correspondence summons up the inner man and the literary figure. Literature, music, friends and politics fill his pages.

Ezra Pound and James Laughlin: Selected Letters

James Laughlin

Biographies & Memoirs

W.W.Norton&Company

Poets on Painters: Essays on the Art of Painting by Twentieth-Century Poets

An anthology of essays by such notables as W.B. Yeats, Gertrude Stein, and W.H. Auden offer their views on painting and works by such great painters as Picasso, Van Gogh, and Matisse

Guy Davenport

Gertrude Stein

William Butler Yeats

W.H. Auden

E.E. Cummings

William Carlos Wilson

Arts & Photography

University of California Press

Literary Essays of Ezra Pound

Faber&Faber

SELECTED POEMS

T.S.Eliot

Faber and Faber

COLLECTED SHORTER POEMS

The classic anthology defined by Confucius (Faber paper covered editions)

CONFUCIUS

FABER

This selection provides an excellent introduction to Ezra Pound's poetry for the general reader, and for the student of contemporary literature. It takes the place of the pioneer edition edited by T. S. Eliot which was published in 1928. A representative group of early poems is included; Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, Cathay and Homage to Sextus Propertius are printed complete; and there is a selection from the Cantos up to and including Drafts & Fragments (1969).

Selected poems, 1908-1959

The early poems spanning from A LUME SPENTO to THE SAN TROVASO NOTEBOOK.  With annotations and notes.

Collected early poems of Ezra Pound

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