Posted on Friday 23 May 2008
100 years ago, Ezra Pound, an American poet on his travels, found his way to London with a mission to liberate English verse.
Pound, the driving force behind several modernist movements such as Imagism and Vorticism, lived in London for 12 years. These movements helped bring to notice the work of poets and artists such as James Joyce, William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore.
While living in London, Pound also edited T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, the poem that was to force the new poetic sensibility into public attention.
Pound's most mature collection, during his London years, was Lustra.
This book included versions from Chinese and Provençal, as well as manifestos, epigrams and love poetry.
To view the full article of Ezra Pound's years in London, please visit:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/poetry/features/
By Emma Rickman