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Ezra Pound

By Prewitt.adam
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    William Butler Yeats

    William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. Yeats was a very good friend of American expatriate poet and Bollingen Prize laureate Ezra Pound.

  • The age of Modernism literature began

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    Ezra Pound

    The life of Ezra Pound.
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    Hilda Doolittle

    Hilda Doolittle an American poet, novelist and memoirist known for her association with the early 20th century avant-garde Imagist group of poets such as Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington. The Imagist model was based on the idioms, rhythms and clarity of common speech, and freedom to choose subject matter as the writer saw fit.
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    Modernism branches off into imagism.

    Modernism branched off into several literary movements and styles, notably Imagism and Vorticism. They were fostered within modernism. As well as modernism, these genres flourished from around 1890 until 1940.
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    Richard Aldington

    Richard Aldington was an English writer and poet. Aldington was best known for his modernistic and contraversal World War I poetry known for criticizing the politicians of the time.

  • Ezra Pound's beginning in writing

    Ezra Pounds's first work got published in the "Jenkintown Times" at the age of eleven.

  • William Butler Yeats published "The Secret Rose"

  • Ezra Pound strongly pursues writing

    Ezra pound began sending poems and various works of fiction to "Harper's Magazine" hoping that they could sell.

  • Ezra Pound meeting Dorothy Shakespeare and then some

    After meeting Dorothy Shakespeare at a literary salon, he was then invited to attend another salon hosted by Dorothy herself. In this second salon he met Olivia, Dorothy's daughter. Olivia then went on to become the love of his life.

  • Gained relations through Olivia

    Through Olivia, Pound was introduced to Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Wyndham Lewis, and many more patrons of London's literary circle.
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    Explosion of modernism

    On the eve of the First World War a growing tension and unease with the social order, already seen in the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the agitation of "radical" parties, also manifested itself in artistic works in every medium which radically simplified or rejected previous practice.

  • Pound finished "Ripostes"

  • Ezra Pound publishes "An immorality".

  • Ezra Pound publishes "In a Station of the Metro".

  • Ezra Pound marries Dorothy Shakespeare.

  • Hilda Doolittle publishes "Oread"

    Hilda's poem “Oread” demonstrates some of the qualities of early modernist free verse: Whirl up, sea—
    Whirl your pointed pines,
    Splash your great pines
    On our rocks,
    Hurl your green over us,
    Cover us with your pools of fir.
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    Ezra Pound writing his massive collection of works "The Cantos"

  • Pound finished "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley"

  • William Butler Yeats published "The Second Coming"

    W.B. Yeats published the famous poem "The Second Coming" which became Chinua Achebe's inspiration for the title of his book, "Things Fall Apart".
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    The period known as "High Modernism"

  • William Butler Yeats was awarded a Nobel Prize

    W.B. Yeats was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature.

  • Hilda Doolittle published "The Mysteries Remain".

    Hilda Doolittle's poem "The Mysteries Remain" speaks about the crises and contraversy's of modernism, the fact that God is dead and using the worlds current state of famine and suffering as proof for it.

  • Hilda Doolittle published "Cinema and the Classics"

    “Cinema and the Classics" is a series of three essays written by H.D. and published in the first English-language film journal Close Up in 1927.

  • Richard Aldington piblishes "Death of a Hero".

    Richard Aldington was best known for his contravershal World War I poetry and his 1929 novel, "Death of a Hero".

  • Ezra Pound published "Make It New".

    Ezra Pound published the famous poem "Make it New". "Make it New" is said to be Ezra Pound's motto.

  • Ezra Pound Incarcerated

    During the second world war, Pound was on the air in Italy activaley criticizing the United States. Later, he was incarcerated by the US. once they seized Italy.

  • Richard Aldington wins the "James Tait Black Memorial Prize".

    His 1946 biography, "Wellington", was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

  • Richard Aldington publishes "Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Inquiry".

    Richard Aldington beame famous from the arising controvers brought from his 1955 Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Inquiry.

  • Ezra Pond set free

    After his incarceration and stay in the mental ward. Ezra Pound was then set free to live the rest of his life with his wife in Italy.