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The Guardian view on booming poetry sales: Homer, meet the Instapoets | Editorial
By Editorial

In an unexpected twist, a Hollywood epic has contributed to Britain’s best-ever half-year in poetry sales

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/14/the-guardian-view-on-booming-poetry-sales-homer-meet-the-instapoets

#Poetry #Books #Homer #TheOdyssey #Culture #Film #MartinAmis #RobertBrowning #JohnMilton #EzraPound #RupiKaur #Socialmedia #PhilipLarkin #TheGuardian #Editorial

"Hugh Selwyn Mauberley" by Ezra Pound

IV

These fought, in any case,
and some believing, pro domo, in any case..
Some quick to arm,
some for adventure,
some from fear of weakness,
some from fear of censure,
some for love of slaughter, in imagination,
learning later. . .

some in fear, learning love of slaughter;
Died some pro patria, non dulce non et decor". .

walked eye-deep in hell
believing in old men's lies, then unbelieving
came home, home to a lie,
home to many deceits,
home to old lies and new infamy;

usury age-old and age-thick
and liars in public places.

Daring as never before, wastage as never before.
Young blood and high blood,
Fair cheeks, and fine bodies;

fortitude as never before

frankness as never before,
disillusions as never told in the old days,
hysterias, trench confessions,
laughter out of dead bellies.

#EzraPound

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hugh_Selwyn_Mauberley

@politico_eu_bot

'When there is a danger of abundance of any, or almost all, commodities, then the usurocracy unleashes a war in order to diminish purchasing-power.'

Ezra Pound, The Causes of War, Finale Enfatico.

#EzraPound #Usurocracy #War

I knew of the poetry Ezra Pound, but TIL on @wikipedia about the narcissistic psychopathy of #EzraPound. Hoo-boy! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound

Does the #transformation of #KanyeWest come to mind with anybody else? 🤔

#BreakingBad

A radiant node or cluster... from which, and through which, and into which, ideas are constantly rushing.
-- Ezra Pound

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #EzraPound #Networks

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Driftwood #Florida

"Fragmentary #Modernism" by Nora Goldschmidt asks: how did #ModernistLiterature & #VisualCulture engage with classical fragments (incl #EzraPound, #TSEliot, #HildaDoolittle, #RichardAldington, #JacobEpstein & #HenriGaudier-Brzeska) & shape our reception of #ClassicalAntiquity until today?

#APoemADay #ezrapound #love #poetry

Il #30ottobre 1885 nasceva Ezra Pound.
Un articolo #OpenAccess di #Enthymema illustra come il #poeta statunitense sia stato influenzato dall'#esoterismo dantesco attraverso la rilettura nell'#Ottocento di #GabrieleRossetti. Questo dialogo tra #Medioevo e #Novecento viene qui presentato attraverso lo scambio epistolare tra #Pound e la nipote di #Rossetti, Olivia Rossetti Agresti.

⬇️ https://doi.org/10.54103/2037-2426/16923

#EzraPound

« A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time. »

― Ezra Pound

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/764886804519403520/a-mans-hope-measures-his-civilization-the

#quotes #EzraPound #hope #civilization

Over oprechtheid. En over #Bosma, de #Slavernijherdenking, de medewerking van #VVD en #NieuwSociaalContract aan de extreemrechtse #coalitie, en #EzraPound.

https://www.joostbaars.nl/post/weet-je-wat-het-is-3-ding-in-de-wereld

#poezie

This big volume, edited by Viorica Patea, John Gery & Walter Baumann is the 1st in-depth examination of #EzraPound's lifelong interest in Spain & Spanish culture - incl. Pound's texts on Spain not accessible elsewhere!

🐎 🇪🇸 https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1856796949

#LiteraryCriticism

“Every time I look down on this timeless town
Whether blue or gray be her skies
Whether loud be her cheers
Or whether soft be her tears
More and more do I realize that...

I love Paris in the spring time
I love Paris in the fall…”

The weather here in early November is varied and changeable. I have missed the heavy rain by luck. This sun on autumn leaves made me smile. It also reminded me of the transience of life…

#ellafitzgerald #EzraPound

Honestly, if anyone wants to understand #EzraPound and unravel how a #poet becomes a fascist, all they need to read is his book, ABC of Reading. His illustrious ego is made quite clear. Brilliant, yes, but certainly he was never as brilliant as he imagined himself to be. One can only imagine it must have been a mighty internal struggle of an inferiority complex layered over a superiority complex.

A radiant node or cluster... from which, and through which, and into which, ideas are constantly rushing.
-- Ezra Pound

⬆ #Quotes #EzraPound #Networks

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah

Eric Wagner talks Ezra Pound (The good, the bad and the, well, *that*) on the Hilaritas Press Podcast -

#EzraPound #RobertAntonWilson #Podcasts

https://hilaritaspodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-19-eric-wagner-on-ezra-pound/

#TheGhostattheFeast #RobertKagan
#bookstodon #history #tsEliot #ezraPound #pastisprologue

Worth reading on #EzraPound and #Chinese #poetry :

* #Translation and the #Languages of #Modernism: Gender, Politics, #Language* by Steven G. Yao (Hamilton College)

@sino_lit @BobDevney @chowleen @Elijahrempe