Ezra Pound's Aesthetics and the Origins of Modernism

Ezra Pound - one of the most innovative and influential, if controversial, poets of the 20th century - continues to dominate the current literary landscape. He was a key figure in helping to create what became ‘modernism’. Pound wrote poetry and criticism based on revolutionary aesthetic principles still relevant to our understanding of the arts today. / This new work asks what are these principles and how did Pound develop them? Who and what influenced him? What beliefs enabled him not onl...