Ezra Pound distinguished three aspects of poetry: melopoeia, phanopoeia, and logopoeia. Melopoeia or melopeia is when words are "charged" beyond their normal meaning with some musical property which ...

Ezra Pound (October 30, 1885 – November 1, 1972) was an American expatriate poet, musician and critic who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in early to mid-20th century poetry. He was the ...

Paul Gauguin kept house with a teenage ‘wife’ in French Polynesia, islands whose culture he is often accused of ransacking for his art. @StephenSmithWDS asks if Gauguin is still worth looking at. ‘I ...

Among the bombings that marked the beginning of 2017, one took place on New Year’s Day at the CasaPound bookshop in Florence, an outpost of the Italian neo-fascist or ‘alt-right’ CasaPound movement, ...

The poet and wrestler S.J. Fowler considers here the ‘kernel of realism’ in Wrestlers and the relationship of Gaudier-Brzeska’s sculptures to the poetry of Ezra Pound. Included is a suite of ten poems ...

When he isn’t keeping the railway safe and moving freely, Network Rail signaller Ezra Miles is penning his thoughts down in ...

A crisp new rendering of the Roman poet’s poems underlines how difficult it is to fully relate all his complexities and ...

Coates’s latest, a travelogue and a meditation on aesthetics and politics, is not dramatic enough to be as provocative as its ...