Make it new: essays (Book, 1934) (WorldCat.org).
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet, critic and intellectual who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in early-to-mid 20th century poetry. Pound's The Cantos contains music and bears a title that could be translated as The Songsalthough it never is.Make It New is the digital quarterly magazine of the Ezra Pound Society.Faber, London, 1934. First Edition ( first printing ) - preceding the US issue by a year. 8vo. 407pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at spine. A small area of tape residue to the free endpapers, and the front hinge carefully repaired. A nice crisp copy in. Make it New. Essays. by EZRA POUND. COVID-19 Update. April 20, 2020: Biblio is open and shipping orders. Read more here. Sign In; Register.
Pound’s own translation of the Chinese original—first published in 1928, well after the initial heyday of modernism—used “renovate,” and only alters that to “make it new” in a footnote. It wasn’t until the mid-1930s that he would use these words as the title of an essay collection and not until the 1950s that it would be picked up by literary critics as a catchphrase of the.Ezra Pound is widely considered one of the most influential poets of the 20th century; his contributions to modernist poetry were enormous. He was an early champion of a number of avant-garde and modernist poets; developed important channels of intellectual and aesthetic exchange between the United States and Europe; and contributed to important literary movements such as Imagism and Vorticism.
A poet, critic, translator, and literary force of the modernist era, Ezra Pound was born in Idaho in 1885. He grew up in Pennsylvania and was educated at Hamilton College and the University of Pennsylvania, where he met William Carlos Williams and H.D. (Hilda Doolittle). After receiving his MA degree, he traveled in Europe and returned to the United States to teach briefly at Wabash College in.
