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- adjective Of or pertaining to Ezra Pound (1885–1972), American
modernist poet involved in developingimagism .
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What they are, surely, is post-Poundian versions – poems in English based on the originals, and with the same underlying sense.
and the pleiades : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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And he's the most quotational, referential, & paratactic of the lot - in short, the most Poundian (or David Jonesian).
GotPoetry.com News 2008
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Happily, he long ago cured himself of the Poundian-Olsonian urge to Make the World a Better Place Thru Poetry, & can turn the machinery of association to the ends of instruction (we learn lots of stuff in these poems, about lots of sometimes arcane matters) and delight ...
GotPoetry.com News 2008
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Heraclitus was being implicitly cast as some sort of Poundian modernist, the sort who might produce a book with a title as precious as Collected Fragments.
Varieties of Unreligious Experience Conrad H. Roth 2008
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