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Genre: Modernism
Acknowledging that current post-modern and theoretical critiques have provoked fresh examination of the high culture was the beginning of modernism. -
Ezra Pound Facts
Ezra Pound's early education took place in a series of dame schools. From 1898 until 1900 he attended the Cheltenham Military Academy, where the boys wore Civil War-style uniforms and were taught military drilling, how to shoot, and the importance of submitting to authority. -
Events about other Modernism authors
After graduating from UCD in 1902, James Joyce left for Paris to study medicine, but he soon abandoned this after finding the technical lectures in French too difficult. -
Ezra Pound Facts
In 1907 he took a job as a teacher of Romance languages at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana. -
Genre: 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. -
Other author's work in Modernism
The poem that made his name, T.S Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock—started in 1910 and published in Chicago in 1915—is seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist movement. -
Works by Ezra Pound
Ripostes of Ezra Pound is a collection of 25 poems. Of its 25 poems, "Salve Pontifex" had appeared in A Lume Spento, and eight others had appeared in magazines. The book includes Pound's interpretation of the Old English poem, "The Seafarer". -
Events about other Modernism authors
T.S Eliot moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25) and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39. -
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Works by Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound wrote The Cantos, his unfinished 120-section epic which consumed much of his middle and late career. -
Works by Ezra Pound
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley is comprises into eighteen short poems which are grouped into two sections. It has been regarded as a turning point in Pound's career -
Others author's work in Modernism
James Joyce was considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. oyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he perfected. -
Ezra Pound Events
In 1924 Ezra Pound moved to Italy because he was outraged about the loss of life in WWI. The Italian government paid him during WWII to make hundreds of radio broadcasts criticizing the United States, as a result of which he was arrested for treason by American forces in Italy in 1945. -
Other author's work in Modernism
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway's first novel, was published in 1926. The novel was published in the United States in October 1926 by the publishing house Scribner's. A year later, the London publishing house Jonathan Cape published the novel. -
Genre: Modernism
By 1930, Modernism had entered popular culture. With the increasing urbanization of populations, it was beginning to be looked to as the source for ideas to deal with the challenges of the day. -
Events about other Modernism authors
Ernest Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.