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    A Study Guide for Ezra Pound's "Salutation"
    A Study Guide for Ezra Pound's "Salutation"
    A Study Guide for Ezra Pound's "Salutation"
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    A Study Guide for Ezra Pound's "Salutation"

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    A Study Guide for Ezra Pound's "Salutation," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 28, 2016
    ISBN9781535832564
    A Study Guide for Ezra Pound's "Salutation"

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      A Study Guide for Ezra Pound's "Salutation" - Gale

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      Salutation

      Ezra Pound

      1913

      Introduction

      Ezra Pound's Salutation, first published in Poetry magazine in 1913, introduces a series of three poems—Salutation, Salutation the Second, and Salutation the Third—satirizing high society of the early 1900s. Though published as a set of twelve poems known as Contemporania, Salutation stands alone as a playful and poignant reminder to appreciate life as a gift, not to bog it down in bitterness or petty complaints. Pound, a poet, translator, critic, essayist, and author, worked tirelessly throughout his life to promote the work of his friends. He had a knack for upsetting critics and an eye for talent. T. S. Eliot said in his introduction to The Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, Mr. Pound is more responsible for the XXth century revolution in poetry than is any other individual. Indeed Eliot himself, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, William Butler Yeats, and many others benefited enormously from contact with the always outrageous and inflammatory Pound. Twenty-eight years old and living in London when Salutation was published, Pound had come a long way from his hometown in Idaho, and would go much further: Paris, Italy, a prisoner-of-war camp, a trial for treason, and a mandatory stay at an insane asylum were in the future for this flashy young poet. Salutation exemplifies Pound's poetry during his early years in London with its brevity, direct language, and mimicry of classic texts. The poem can be found in Personae: The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound, published in

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