Ezra-Pound-美国文学庞德课件

Imagism
four principles: 1) direct treatment 单刀直入 2) precise image 意象清晰 3) economical expression 表达简洁 4) musical rhythm 富有乐感
Image
master works: 埃兹拉· 庞德（Ezra Pound） 《女孩》 （Girl） 杜利特尔（Hilda Doolittle） 《不倒的墙》 （The Walls Do Not Fall） 威廉姆斯（William Carlos Williams） 《佩特森》（Paterson）
Ezra Pound 埃兹拉· 庞德
（1885-1972）
“the prophet of the open spirit”
自由精神的预言 者
Life
Born in Idaho (1885) Hamilton college and the University of Pennsylvania left for Europe (1908) Foreign editor of Poetry (1912) Paris (1920) Italy, his misbehavior in WWII (1925-45) Death in Italy (1972)
Cantos--Intellectual Diary Since 1915
Theme: an attempt to impose, through art, order and meaning upon a chaotic and meaningless world.
Image
generalization: A literary movement launched by British and American poets early in the 20th century in reaction against Victorian sentimentalism that advocated the use of free verse, common speech patterns, and clear concrete images.
Image
An image is an ？and ？complex in an instant of time. intellectual emotional 意象即理智和情感在刹那间的融合。
Cantos--Intellectual Diary Since 1915
Features: a total of 117 poems, an amalgam of heterogeneous cultures and languages. Contents: He traces the rise and fall of western and eastern empires, the destruction caused by greed and materialization. 1) the gloomy and chaotic western civilization and his fury toward usury 2) the strength and the wisdom of Confucianism
Life
the leader of imagism the respected teacher of many contemporaries Eliot, Joyce, Frost, Hemingway “He defends when they are attacked, he gets them into magazines and out of jail. … He writes articles about them. He introduces them to wealthy women. He gets publishers to take their books. He sits up all night with them when they claim to be dying… he advances them hospital expenses and dissuades them from suicide.” --- Hemingway
Translations: Cathay; The Classic Anthology Defined by Confucius; Shih-Ching, etc. 《中国》《孔子经典选集》《诗经》
Chinese culture and Pound
Literary execቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱtor of Ernest Fenollosa in 1913 with the result of Cathay . Chinese characters as an ideal medium for poetry Confucius as an effective cure for the disease of his times
Major Works
Poetic works: Exultations; Personae; Cantos, etc. 《狂喜》《人物》《诗章》 Critical essays: Make it New(1934); Literary Essays(1954); The ABC of Reading(1934)
Cantos--Intellectual Diary Since 1915
a total of 117 poems a notoriously difficult book of various themes: history, politics, economy, education, art, etc Pound's belief in the doctrine of Confucius
Life
his misbehavior in WWII embrace fascism (Mussolini and Hitler) criticize Roosevelt and Jews arrested for treason by the U.S. government St. Elizabeths psychiatric hospital, Washington released by fellow writers
Life
Time magazine called him in 1933 “a cat that walks by himself, tenaciously unhousebroken and very unsafe for children”. Awarded the Bollingen Prize (博林根奖) in 1949, triggering enormous controversy