Retrospect meaning3/21/2023 ![]() ![]() It may startle a dull reader into alertness. Perhaps a few good poems have come from the new method, and if so it is justified.Ĭriticism is not a circumscription or a set of prohibitions. But it is, on the whole, good that the field should be ploughed. At times I can find a marked metre in “vers libres,” as stale and hackneyed as any pseudo-Swinburnian, at times the writers seem to follow no musical structure whatever. Whether or no the phrases followed by the followers are musical must be left to the reader’s decision. The actual language and phrasing is often as bad as that of our elders without even the excuse that the words are shovelled in to fill a metric pattern or to complete the noise of a rhyme-sound. Indeed vers libre has become as prolix and as verbose as any of the flaccid varieties that preceded it. This school has since been “joined” or “followed” by numerous people who, whatever their merits, do not show any signs of agreeing with the second specification. Flint in the August number of Harold Monro’s magazine for 1911. Upon many points of taste and of predilection we differed, but agreeing upon these three positions we thought we had as much right to a group name, at least as much right, as a number of French “schools” proclaimed by Mr. As regarding rhythm: to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation.Direct treatment of the “thing” whether subjective or objective.D.,” Richard Aldington and myself decided that we were agreed upon the three principles following: In the spring or early summer of 1912, “H. There has been so much scribbling about a new fashion in poetry, that I may perhaps be pardoned this brief recapitulation and retrospect. The text is taken from Pound’s Pavannes and Divagations (1918). The essay is bracing and energetic after all: “The mastery of any art is the work of a lifetime.” The essay begins with the three principles of imagism, including “Direct treatment of the ‘thing’.” Pound defines “image” as “an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.” He elaborates on the “rules” of imagism, advising precision, and proclaiming, among other things, “Use either no ornament or good ornament” and “Go in fear of abstraction.” Beyond attention to the image, Pound discusses the merits of translation, the rigors of free verse, and poets of the past. In “A Retrospect” Pound presents his beliefs about what makes good poetry. It includes “A Few Don’ts” which was originally published in Poetry in 1913 as “A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste” and “Prolegomena,” which first appeared in the Poetry Review in 1912. Pound’s “A Retrospect,” published in 1918, is a collection of his essays on poetry. His works include versions of Chinese poems, the two-line imagist poem “In a Station of the Metro,” “Hugh Selwyn Mauberely,” and his modern epic The Cantos. Pound’s own poetry was influenced by his knowledge of languages-among them Chinese, Japanese, and Italian. Alfred Prufrock.” Pound also heavily edited Eliot’s draft of The Waste Land. Eliot, he convinced Harriet Monroe, the editor of Poetry, to publish Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Yeats and Robert Frost both accepted editorial advice from him. He spent his final years in Italy.Īs a literary critic and mentor, Pound had a great influence on his contemporaries. In 1943 Pound was indicted for treason he was held at St. In Italy he became increasingly fascinated by Benito Mussolini, and from 1941-1943 he made radio talks in which he expressed his support of the dictator. Pound moved to Paris in 1921, and then to Italy. Their principles are outlined in the first three points of “A Retrospect.” By 1912 Pound, along with H.D., Richard Adlington, and F.S. ![]() Yeats and Ford Madox Ford as well as artists, composers, and philosophers. ![]() Pound eventually moved to London where he lived for 12 years, where he became acquainted with writers W.B. After receiving his MA degree, he traveled in Europe and returned to the United States to teach briefly at Wabash College in Indiana. He grew up in Pennsylvania and was educated at Hamilton College and the University of Pennsylvania, where he met William Carlos Williams and H.D. A poet, critic, translator, and literary force of the modernist era, Ezra Pound was born in Idaho in 1885. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply.AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |