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Just after the advent of the new century, Ezra Pound, an only child born in 1885 in the pioneer mining town of Hailey, Idaho, and reared by adoring parents in suburban Philadelphia, was pondering his calling as a poet. Moreover, like Homer (we can presume), like Vergil (quite clearly), like Dante and Spenser and Milton (we know), he was thinking how to be a great poet. By about 1904, not yet twenty and still an undergraduate at Hamilton College, he had conceived the ambition of writing an epic, as his worthy predecessors had. Furthermore, since he recognized the national character of the epic poets, he had to ask himself how to be the great American poet. Finally, steeped in, but (he hoped) emerging from, the cloyed atmosphere of fin de siècle Romanticism, he determined to make himself the great modern American poet.
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Just after the advent of the new century, Ezra Pound, an only child born in 1885 in the pioneer mining town of Hailey, Idaho, and reared by adoring parents in suburban Philadelphia, was pondering his calling as a poet. Moreover, like Homer (we can presume), like Vergil (quite clearly), like Dante and Spenser and Milton (we know), he was thinking how to be a great poet. By about 1904, not yet twenty and still an undergraduate at Hamilton College, he had conceived the ambition of writing an epic, as his worthy predecessors had. Furthermore, since he recognized the national character of the epic poets, he had to ask himself how to be the great American poet. Finally, steeped in, but (he hoped) emerging from, the cloyed atmosphere of fin de siècle Romanticism, he determined to make himself the great modern American poet.
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