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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.
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The life of Ezra Pound.
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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 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 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.
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Ezra Pounds's first work got published in the "Jenkintown Times" at the age of eleven.
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Ezra pound began sending poems and various works of fiction to "Harper's Magazine" hoping that they could sell.
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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.
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Through Olivia, Pound was introduced to Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Wyndham Lewis, and many more patrons of London's literary circle.
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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.
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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,
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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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W.B. Yeats was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature.
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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.
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“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.
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Richard Aldington was best known for his contravershal World War I poetry and his 1929 novel, "Death of a Hero".
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Ezra Pound published the famous poem "Make it New". "Make it New" is said to be Ezra Pound's motto.
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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.
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His 1946 biography, "Wellington", was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
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Richard Aldington beame famous from the arising controvers brought from his 1955 Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Inquiry.
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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.