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Lecture Sixteen Life Idaho (1885) Hamilton college and the University of Pennsylvania left for Europe (1908) A Lume Spento Foreign editor of Poetry (1912) Paris (1920) Italy, his misbehavior in WWII (1925-45) Death in Italy (1972) Major Works Poetic works: A Lume Spento; Hugh Selwyn Mauberley(1920); Cantos, etc. Critical essays: Make it New(1934); Literary Essays(1954); The ABC of Reading(1934), etc. Translations: Cathay(1915); The Translations of Ezra Pound (1953); The Classic Anthology Defined by Confucius; Shih-Ching etc. Chinese culture and Pound Literary executor of Ernest Fenollosa in 1913 with the result of Cathay . Chinese characters as an ideal medium for poetry Confucius as an effective cure for the disease of his times Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920) Form: two parts which contain 13 poems and 5 lyrics respectively Contents: a record of the growth of a poet from his refusal to write “socially useful” poetry to his final realization that aestheticism will not work in the modern world (P.167-168) Theme: the quest and plight of an artist in an unresponsive world. Cantos: “intellectual diary since 1915” Features: a total of 117 poems, an amalgam of heterogeneous cultures and languages. Contents: He traces the rise and fall of western and eastern empires, the destruction caused by greed and materialization. 1) the gloomy and chaotic western civilization and his fury toward usury 2) the strength and the wisdom of Confucianism Theme: an attempt to impose, through art, order and meaning upon a chaotic and meaningless world. Style Use of myth and legend Indirect language Wide scope of allusions * * “the prophet of the open spirit” *