Audiobooks by Ezra Pound

A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic ? Art

"'A dime a dozen' as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English 'cheap as chips' but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit 'A Rhyme a Dozen' as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Art - An Introduction 2 - An Art Critic by Ambrose Bierce 3 - Art and Heart by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 4 - Colors by Stephen Vincent Benet 5 - Jade by Edith Wharton 6 - My Last Duchess by Robert Browning 7 - On Mr Alcock of Bristol, an Excellent Miniature Painter by Thomas Chatterton 8 - On Seeing the Elgin Marbles For the First Time by John Keats 9 - Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley 10 - Rome - Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter, April 1887 by Thomas Hardy 11 - Sonnet 13 - Summer Fruit by Rainer Maria Rilke 12 - Written Under a Portrait of Keats by John Boyle O'Reily 13 - Portrait d'une Femme by Ezra Pound"

Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Ezra Pound, John Boyle O'reily, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Browning, Stephen Vincent Benet, Thomas Chatterton, Thomas Hardy (Author), Christopher Ragland, Ghizela Rowe, William Dufris (Narrator)

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A Rare Recording of Ezra Pound

"Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (October 30, 1885 - November 1, 1972), born in what is now Hailey, Idaho, was a major American figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. Angered by the carnage of World War I, Pound blamed the war on finance capitalism, which he called "usury". He moved to Italy in 1924, and through the 1930s and 1940s promoted an economic theory known as social credit, wrote for publications owned by the British fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, embraced Benito Mussolini's fascism, and expressed support for Adolf Hitler. During World War II and the Holocaust in Italy, he made hundreds of paid radio broadcasts for the Italian government attacking the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt and, above all, Jews. He was arrested in 1945 by American forces in Italy on charges of treason, spending months in a U.S. military camp in Pisa--including three weeks in an outdoor steel cage. Deemed unfit to stand trial, he was incarcerated in St. Elizabeth's psychiatric hospital in Washington, D.C., for over 12 years. After a campaign by his fellow writers, he was released from St. Elizabeth's in 1958 and lived in Italy until his death in 1972."

Ezra Pound (Author), Ezra Pound (Narrator)

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The Imagists

"In the early 1900s a new movement in poetry began. With the new century came new thinking, a reaction to both romanticism and the more formal, structured poetry of the Victorian era. Here was poetry designed to be simple, clear and precise, rather than be adorned and encrusted with more from the lexicon than what was actually needed.The original ideas sprang from T. E Hulme and from these Ezra Pound created the structure for its development. Akin to the Ancient Greek lyricists and the Japanese Haiku poets who went from fixed meters to free verse.I. Direct treatment of the "thing," whether subjective or objective. II. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation. III. As regarding rhythm: to compose in sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of the metronome.Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) William Carlos Williams, Richard Aldington and James Joyce added their talents to an anthology edited by Pound, swiftly followed by Amy Lowell assuming leadership and adding both monies and 3 further anthology volumes. By the end of the Great War in 1918 the movement was being absorbed into the broader modernist movement. Its time may have passed but its indelible mark was made."

Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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Voices of Poetry - Volume 2

"Hear rare recordings from some of the world's most-respected poets reading their own works: Ezra Pound, Old Men With Beautiful Manners; William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle Of Innisfree; Robert Graves, A Last Poem; Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Harp-Weaver; Richard Eberhart, The Groundhog; Philip Levine, Blasting From Heaven; Marianne Moore, The Mind Is An Enchanting Thing; Stephen Spender, What I Expected; Vachel Lindsay, An Interpolation By Mr. Lindsay."

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Philip Levine, Richard Eberhart, Robert Graves, Stephen Spender, Vachel Lindsay, William Butler Yeats (Author), Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Philip Levine, Richard Eberhart, Robert Graves, Stephen Spender, Vachel Lindsay, William Butler Yeats (Narrator)

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Cathay

"The Cathay poems appeared in a slim volume in 1915. They are, in effect, Ezra Pound’s English translations/interpretations from notebooks written by the Japanese scholar Ernest Fenollosa. Pound, not knowing any Chinese or Japanese at all, promptly created a new and somewhat complex style of translation, as he had done with words from several other languages. The Cathay poems are primarily written by the Chinese poet Li Po, refered to throughout these translations as Rihaku, the Japanese form of his name. These poems came to have a profound influence on 20th Century poetry, spawning, among other things, the Imagist movement, and helped in the generation of widespread interest in Asian literature and thought. Also included in this collection are two poems from Pound’s 1912 collection Ripostes. “The Seafarer” is another of Pound’s experiments in translation, this one from the Anglo-Saxon. (Summary by Alan Davis-Drake)"

Ezra Pound (Author), Alan Davis Drake (Narrator)

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