“If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. Literature is news that stays news.” – Ezra Pound
Born in New York on this Oct. 30,
1885, Pound spent most of his adult life in Great Britain and is considered the
poet most responsible for defining and promoting the so-called “modernist
poetry movement.” He also is noted for
opening an exchange of work and ideas between British and American writers and
for his support of other young writers like W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Marianne
Moore, William Hemingway and T.S. Elliot.
“Good writers,” he said, “are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it
clear.” For Saturday’s Poem, here is
Pound’s,
The Sea of Glass
I
looked and saw a sea
roofed over with rainbows,
In the midst of each
two lovers met and departed;
Then the sky was full of faces
with gold glories behind them.
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