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"Hugh Selwyn Mauberley" is a sequence of 18 short poems written by the American modernist poet Ezra Pound, published in 1920. The work serves as a critique of early 20th-century English society and its cultural decline following World War I. Through the persona of the struggling poet Mauberley, Poun...
Lustra (1916) is a poetry collection by Ezra Pound, collecting Imagist and early modernist poems written between 1912 and 1915. The volume includes Pound's free-verse adaptations from Chinese poetry, such as his rewriting of Li Bai's 'The River-Merchant's Wife,' and demonstrates the compressed, imag...
Ripostes is a collection of poems by the American modernist poet Ezra Pound, published in 1912. The volume marks a significant transition in Pound's career, moving away from his earlier romantic influences toward the sharper, more economical style of Imagism. It includes his notable translation of t...
