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Ezra pound 18851972 selected poems in a station at the metro the apparition of these faces in the crowd. Eliot and james joyce, was friends with a number of leading modernist writers including w. Included in this volume are such poems as les millwin, exiles letter, the bellaires, villanelle. Stupidity carried beyond a certain point becomes a public menace. Persons other books by ezra pound seventy cantos the pisan cantos selected poem make it new abc of reading ed. He became known for his role in developing imagism, which, in reaction to the victorian and georgian poets. I thought i might enjoy selected poems by ezra pound, until i realized it was full of poems by ezra pound, which was both downer and drawback.
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