Tag: Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound was an important figure in the Lost Generation era, his relationships with other ex-pat writers in Paris put him in touch with some of literature’s greatest stars. These include Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ford Madox Ford. He was among the luminaries who passed through Natalie Barney’s salon and who frequented Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare & Company bookstore.

Like many other writers, he recorded some of the most important dialogue ever uttered, his reportage of his conversation with Aubrey Beardsley cementing the statement “Beauty is difficult” in the American literary canon. He did so in his Pisan Cantos, which he wrote during imprisonment in Italy during his exile and are published as The Cantos of Ezra Pound. When I write about the era in which he lived, his poetry or I mention him for any reason, I file the post under the Ezra Pound tag.