Ezra pound (188510/October 30th-197211October) is an American poet, literary critic, an important representative of Imagist poetry movement, and the United States. 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.
Imagism is a literary movement initiated and put into practice by some British and American poets from 1909 to 19 17. Its purpose is to ask the poet to vividly express things with vivid, accurate, implicit and highly concentrated images, and to integrate the poet's thoughts and feelings into poetry. It opposes comments and sighs. During his stay in London, Pound set up a salon with hilda doolittle and richard aldington, which was supported by many people.
Personality influence
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 in 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.