Assignment task:
Don't Crowd the Wheelbarrow: Ezra Pound and the Rules of Imagism
Poetry Champion
Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972) was an American writer, critic, and advocate for the literary arts who had an immeasurable impact on the evolution of poetry in the first half of the 20th century. As a young man, Pound set out to "know more about poetry than any man living."1 With this aim, he moved to Europe in 1908 and, for the next several decades, built relationships between writers in Britain and America. He also promoted the work of major Modernist literary figures such as William Carlos Williams, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Marianne Moore, and T. S. Eliot, who wrote that Pound was "more responsible for the 20th-century revolution in poetry than [was] any other individual."2Pound achieved this stature not only through his own innovative verse and his support of other poets, but also through his establishment of guidelines for how poems should be built and what they should do.
Question: Why was Ezra Pound so important to the evolution of poetry in the early 20th century?