Pound published two collections of poems, "Ecstasy" and "Characters" in London in 1909. It was a collection "The Spirit of Romance" compiled during his lectures in London and published in 1910. In 1915 he published an English translation of ancient Chinese poetry titled "China". From 1916 to 1917, he translated Japanese dramas. In 1917 he published the poem "Homage to Sextus Propertius". Pound published "Hugh Selwyn Maubury" in 1920. Pound claimed that this was a poem to bid farewell to London, and Maubury was the poet himself. This poem satirizes British literature and culture in 1919 and is his important work. Pound wrote an opera in Paris in 1921, and he also wrote a book on sculpture.