Ezra pound, an American poet and literary critic, is an important representative of the Imagist Poetry Movement and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Literature. Pound and Eliot are both representatives of late symbolism poetry. He gave birth to the theory of "artistic conception" from China's classical poems and Japanese haiku, and made outstanding contributions to the mutual reference of eastern and western poems.
Pound has made great efforts in promoting cultural exchanges between China and the West. His imagist works have absorbed some writing forms and characteristics of Japanese poetry, such as haiku poems. He expounded Confucius' theory in his long poem Poems, and collected and translated more than a dozen ancient poems of China published by 19 15.
Pound doesn't know much about Chinese. His translation is from Japanese. Pound also translated The Great Learning, The Doctrine of the Mean and The Analects of Confucius. In the process of translation, Pound got help from some experts and scholars in Washington and overcame various difficulties. Although people can criticize translation, Pound made an unprecedented attempt.
In addition to translating China's works, Pound also translated foreign literary works in many languages, including Japanese, Greek and Italian literature. In this respect, Pound is also an accomplished translator. Pound once defined image as the precise moment when external objective things shot into his mind and became internal subjective things.
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As one of the founders of modernist literature recognized in Europe and America, Pound has great influence on artistic creation and critical theory. The main work is a grand long poem, covering human civilization. Published in batches from 19 17 to 1959 in the form of poems, including 109 poems and 8 unfinished drafts.
The main characteristics of his thought are: opposing the domination of capitalist industrial civilization and western orthodox culture, emphasizing drawing lessons from the wisdom of the East and the wealth of ancient civilization, creating a beautiful world full of humanity, advocating art, blending and coexisting with various cultures, and being sheltered and guided by the savior of individual wisdom.