This essay explores the lives and works of three modernist poets: Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and E.E. Cummings. It correlates their literary work with the emergence of modernist art and with the ensuing literary movements and aesthetic theories. Ezra Pound’s role in the creation of modernist poetry was crucial. It was based on an image, a complex instant of time that can be viewed as a painter’s motif. The use of collage, fractioning, symbols and others are all features derived of painters. Painters and poets belonged to a larger group and movements like Impressionism, Dadaism and Surrealism applied both to poets and painters, reciprocally lending new powers to one another. As well as resembling one, poems tried to interpret existi...
Expressive poets, from the romantic period to our own, have labored under the double threat of belat...
During the modern period, painters, poets, dancers, musicians, novelists, and composers who grew dis...
Known for its desire to make it new, the early twentieth century saw important shifts in poetic form...
Ezra Pound was deeply engaged with the avant-garde art scene in London and Paris during the early tw...
The Cantos by Ezra Pound serves in a quintessential way to focus on the Modernist idea of literature...
In studying modern art and poetry for the past several years, I have become interested in how these ...
Ekphrasis is commonly known as the literary description or commentary of a real or imaginary work of...
William Carlos Williams was an American poet who renounced poetic diction in favor of the unpoetic, ...
Imagism, almost parallel with the first World War, was an American poetry movement applying free ver...
Speaks about the Williams's poetry is considered alongside his engagement with modernist art - parti...
In this article the cubism of the American poet William Carlos Williams is discussed as a product of...
This study of twentieth-century poetry proposes a re-examination of how we interpret ekphrasis, or p...
Edward Estlin Cummings, more commonly known as E.E. Cummings, dedicated his life to the pursuit of r...
The desperate, prophetic voices of authors Sylvia Plath and Ezra Pound echo loudly in the canon of m...
This paper examines the short poems of Ezra Pound, a group of works that have long been the subject ...
Expressive poets, from the romantic period to our own, have labored under the double threat of belat...
During the modern period, painters, poets, dancers, musicians, novelists, and composers who grew dis...
Known for its desire to make it new, the early twentieth century saw important shifts in poetic form...
Ezra Pound was deeply engaged with the avant-garde art scene in London and Paris during the early tw...
The Cantos by Ezra Pound serves in a quintessential way to focus on the Modernist idea of literature...
In studying modern art and poetry for the past several years, I have become interested in how these ...
Ekphrasis is commonly known as the literary description or commentary of a real or imaginary work of...
William Carlos Williams was an American poet who renounced poetic diction in favor of the unpoetic, ...
Imagism, almost parallel with the first World War, was an American poetry movement applying free ver...
Speaks about the Williams's poetry is considered alongside his engagement with modernist art - parti...
In this article the cubism of the American poet William Carlos Williams is discussed as a product of...
This study of twentieth-century poetry proposes a re-examination of how we interpret ekphrasis, or p...
Edward Estlin Cummings, more commonly known as E.E. Cummings, dedicated his life to the pursuit of r...
The desperate, prophetic voices of authors Sylvia Plath and Ezra Pound echo loudly in the canon of m...
This paper examines the short poems of Ezra Pound, a group of works that have long been the subject ...
Expressive poets, from the romantic period to our own, have labored under the double threat of belat...
During the modern period, painters, poets, dancers, musicians, novelists, and composers who grew dis...
Known for its desire to make it new, the early twentieth century saw important shifts in poetic form...