/lit/ - Literature

>>18328897
Spoke classical Greek better than the Greeks.
Even though he didn't know it.
Miraculous intellect...

>>18328897
>He seems to be mentioned in the foreward of every book I read
It's because filthy leftists like to feel edgy even if they attack every position they don't agree with.

Based and redpilled

>>18328932
>>18328998
What's the average iq of this board
Unironically biz is smarter
Jesus fuck bros

>>18329003
I’m a 140
Pound is the greatest poet to ever live

>>18328897
Modernist critic of modernity

>>18329003
138, biz is far smarter

Father of modern poetry. Fascist artist.

From Idaho. Spent his teen and young adult years in Philadelphia mostly. He moved to Europe with TS Eliot and linked up to with a guy named Wyndham Lewis. They had this goal of modernizing the English language and he ended up editing, influencing, or touching in someway a ridiculous amount of the art and cultural scene at that time and had a big impact on many writers of that time. He ended up a fascist and moved to Italy where he broadcasted propaganda for the fascists before he was captured by the allies, stuffed in a dog kennel with constant light, and tortured into madness. He’s most known for the Cantos. That’s about it.

>>18328897
You read shitty books

>>18329003
>iq is
Immediately spotted the weak-minded one.

I’ve never read Pound but I just want to say that his presence in Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast was always welcome. He seemed like a cool guy

>>18329003
Biz is 70% pajeets working a part time shilling crypto. They are smarter than most boards desu.

smart and crazy. two best qualities of any artist in my opinion.
For those who don't know him, compare this to the pic

>Winter is icumen in,
>Lhude sing Goddamm,
>Raineth drop and staineth slop,
>And how the wind doth ramm!
>Sing: Goddamm.

>Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us,
>An ague hath my ham.
>Freezeth river, turneth liver,
>Damm you; Sing: Goddamm.

>Goddamm, Goddamm, 'tis why I am, >Goddamm,
>So 'gainst the winter's balm.

>Sing goddamm, damm, sing goddamm,

>>18329003
122, pound is the greatest poet to have ever lived.

>smart and crazy. two best qualities of any artist in my opinion.

He’s in part responsible for (ironically) burying the decaying corpse of Western literature and that’s all you really need to know.

>>18330073
>>18329067
>>18329008
>they keep a number attached to their self

>>18329003
biz is just for shitposting bro

Father of all modernists, plus he has a finger in so many poetry movement pies.
Published portrait of an artist/ulysses in serial, helped develop and platform ts eliot, huge inspiration to hart crane and robert lowell (father of confessional poetry), helped develop yeats and frost, helped hemingway create iceberg theory, created the imagism movement which housed hd.
Finally, his influence encompasses all of those writers. Anybody they influenced (pynchon, faulkner, woolf, dfw, dylan thomas, the list is fucking endless) is also under his indirect influence.
His poetry was also pretty decent but his talent was mainly for spotting and supporting cutting edge modernist writers.

>>18328932
Pound identified as a leftist

Is ezra pound the sug knight of literature?

if you've read joyce it's worth reading pound's letters to him. they've been compiled into a book, might give you a sense of the kind of stuff he was up to.