Word: selwyn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pound's mission in life, as he announced in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, was "To resuscitate the dead art/ of poetry; to maintain the sublime/ In the old sense." After the rhetoric and moral posturing of the Victorians, he declared early for a different approach -harder, saner, nearer the bone, Pound said, "austere, direct, free from emotional slither." Then as gadfly, teacher, prosodist and selfless promoter of gifted contemporaries (Eliot, Yeats, Frost), he encouraged the spare, sensuous verse, the ironic double vision that has helped modern poets consider and refine the challenges and confusions of a new and terrifying century...