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he Imagist poets but for modern poetry as a whole.3. The movement was a training school in which many great poets learned their first lessons in the poetic art.4. It is this movement that helped to open the first pages of modern English and American poetry.VI. Ezra Pound1. Life andliterary careerEzra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho, in 1885. He pleted two years of college at the University of Pennsylvania and earned a degree from Hamilton College in 1905. After teaching at Wabash College for two years, he travelled abroad to Spain, Italy and London, became interested in Japanese amp。 Chinese poetry. He married Dorothy Shakespear in 1914 and became London editor of the Little Review in 1917. In 1924, he moved to Italy, became involved in Fascist politics.In 1945, he was arrested on charges of treason for broadcasting Fascist propaganda by radio to the U. S. In 1946, he was acquitted, but declared mentally ill and mitted to St. Elizabeth39。s Hospital in Washington, . During his confinement, the jury of the BollingenLibrary of Congress Award (which included a number of the most eminent writers of the time) awarded him the prize for the Pisan Cantos (1948). In 1958, he was released from the hospital, returned to Italy and settled in Venice.In 1972, he died, a semirecluse(隱居) Ezra Pound promoted a modernist aesthetic in poetry. In the early teens of the twentieth century, he opened a seminal exchange of work amp。 ideas between British amp。 American writers, helped contemporaries :W. B. Yeats, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, D. H. Laurence, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway and especially T. S. Eliot. His later work is the encyclopedic epic poem The Cantos.3. works(1) Cathay(2) Cantos(3) Hugh Selwyn Mauberley4. point of view(1) Confident in Pound’s belief that the artist was morally and culturally the arbiter and the “saviour” of the race, he took it upon himself to purify the arts and became the prime mover of a few experimental movements, the aim of which was to dump the old into the dustbin and bring forth something new.(2) To him life was sordid personal crushing oppression, and culture produced nothing but “intangible bondage”.(3) Pound sees in Chinese history and the doctrine of Confucius a source of strength and wisdom with which to counterpoint Western gloom and confusion.(4) He saw a chaotic world that wanted setting to rights, and a humanity, s