The other considers the Homeric poems to be the result of a process of working and reworking by many contributors, and that 'Homer' is best seen as a label for an entire tradition. One holds that most of the Iliad and (according to some) the Odyssey are the works of a single poet of genius. Broadly speaking, modern scholarly opinion falls into two groups. Modern scholars consider these accounts legendary.The Homeric Question – concerning by whom, when, where and under what circumstances the Iliad and Odyssey were composed – continues to be debated. Many accounts of Homer's life circulated in classical antiquity, the most widespread being that he was a blind bard from Ionia, a region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey. The Odyssey focuses on the ten-year journey home of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, after the fall of Troy. It focuses on a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles lasting a few weeks during the last year of the war. The Iliad is set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek kingdoms. Homer ( Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος Greek pronunciation:, Hómēros) is the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature. Hemingway wrote: 'The best of Pound's writing-and it is in the Cantos-will last as long as there is any literature.' His political views ensure that his work remains as controversial now as it was during his lifetime in 1933, Time magazine called him 'a cat that walks by himself, tenaciously unhousebroken and very unsafe for children'. Elizabeths in 1958 and returned to live in Italy until his death. Largely due to a campaign by his fellow writers, he was released from St.

These parts were published as The Pisan Cantos (1948), for which he was awarded the Bollingen Prize in 1949 by the Library of Congress, leading to enormous controversy. Elizabeths psychiatric hospital in Washington, D.C., for over 12 years.Pound began work on sections of The Cantos while in custody in Italy. The following year he was deemed unfit to stand trial, and incarcerated in St. military camp in Pisa, including three weeks in a 6-by-6-foot (1.8 by 1.8 m) outdoor steel cage, which he said triggered a mental breakdown: 'when the raft broke and the waters went over me'. Roosevelt and Jews, as a result of which he was arrested in 1945 by American forces in Italy on charges of treason. During World War II, he was paid by the Italian government to make hundreds of radio broadcasts criticizing the United States, Franklin D. He moved to Italy in 1924 and throughout the 1930s and 1940s embraced Benito Mussolini's fascism, expressed support for Adolf Hitler, and wrote for publications owned by the British fascist Sir Oswald Mosley. Angered by the carnage of World War I, Pound lost faith in Great Britain and blamed the war on usury and international capitalism.

Eliot, James Joyce, Robert Frost and Ernest Hemingway. Pound worked in London during the early 20th century as foreign editor of several American literary magazines, and helped discover and shape the work of contemporaries such as T.

His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920) and the unfinished 120-section epic, The Cantos (1917–1969). His contribution to poetry began with his development of Imagism, a movement derived from classical Chinese and Japanese poetry, stressing clarity, precision, concision, and economy of language.

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, and a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement.

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