Ezra Pound
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Nov 5, 2026
Ryan HolidayGUEST
He comes back from, we know how the story ends.
Ryan HolidayGUEST
But there's this letter that he writes to Ezra Pound.
Ryan HolidayGUEST
And he goes, this is right after it happens, he's telling him the story.
Ryan HolidayGUEST
And he goes, I know you're gonna tell me this is all for the best.
Ryan HolidayGUEST
And he does get there very quickly, like almost immediately he starts writing again and his sparser sort of Hemingway-esque style comes as a result of this kind of burning, unintentional burning of the boats behind him.
Ryan HolidayGUEST
And he later, he even fictionalizes the scene where this happened to the writer.
Ryan HolidayGUEST
So he's able in that scene to articulate everything that Ezra Pound was trying to say to him in this moment, but he wasn't there yet.
Ryan HolidayGUEST
And so like...
Brendan LeonardHOST
yeah no i do too Um, okay.
Brendan LeonardHOST
Number four, a poem by Ezra Pound called days are not full enough.
Brendan LeonardHOST
Okay.
Brendan LeonardHOST
Yeah.
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Brendan LeonardHOST
Number two, The Cripple of Inishmon by Martin McDonough.
Brendan LeonardHOST
Number three, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Brendan LeonardHOST
Number four, And the Days Are Not Full Enough poem by Ezra Pound.
Brendan LeonardHOST
Number five, The Dirtbag Diaries.
Julianne BuonocoreHOST
So it couldn't be more similar.
Julianne BuonocoreHOST
You'll also hear about other fellow writers and artists like Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce.
Julianne BuonocoreHOST
So truly, this is very Rory Gilmore.
Julianne BuonocoreHOST
And speaking of Rory, I love that this is a book that she shared with Logan.
Levent BulutHOST
In March of that year, F.S. Flint laid out the principles of imagism, and the very first one was the direct treatment of the thing.
Levent BulutHOST
Right alongside that, Ezra Pound offered this famous definition, writing that an image is that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.
Levent BulutHOST
There are two big takeaways here.
Levent BulutHOST
First, the image absolutely does not leave emotion out.
Gary GirodHOST
Dante's contemporary Petrarch called Arnaud the Gran Maestro d'Amore, Grand Master of Love.
Gary GirodHOST
The eccentric 20th century American poet Ezra Pound dubbed Arnaud the greatest poet who ever lived.
Gary GirodHOST
Likewise, T.S. Eliot, the 1948 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, made many references to Achnaud, who he clearly adored.
Gary GirodHOST
What made Achnaud so special was his absolute mastery of wordplay.
Anne FernaldGUEST
And poetry helps us kind of refine our understanding of what those things are.
Uli BaerHOST
You do make a comment, it's not your main point, but that Ezra Pound is canonized and celebrated.
Uli BaerHOST
And his political views, I think, are deeply offensive.
Uli BaerHOST
To many people, I think, hopefully, because I don't share them.
Uli BaerHOST
She's not in the anthologies, taught in the same way, doesn't come across.
Uli BaerHOST
So in some ways, why is it that...
Uli BaerHOST
the powers that be, which is people like us decided that Ezra Pound is, who is also a formalist indebted to the European and the Chinese, other older traditions.
Anne FernaldGUEST
Right.
Anne FernaldGUEST
And poetry helps us kind of refine our understanding of what those things are.
Uli BaerHOST
You do make a comment, it's not your main point, but that Ezra Pound is canonized and celebrated.
Uli BaerHOST
And his political views, I think, are deeply offensive.
Uli BaerHOST
To many people, I think, hopefully, because I don't share them.
Anne FernaldGUEST
And poetry helps us kind of refine our understanding of what those things are.
Uli BaerHOST
You do make a comment, it's not your main point, but that Ezra Pound is canonized and celebrated.
Uli BaerHOST
And his political views, I think, are deeply offensive, hopefully, to many people.
Uli BaerHOST
I think, hopefully, because I don't share them.
Uli BaerHOST
So in some ways, why is it that...
Anne FernaldGUEST
the powers that be,
Uli BaerHOST
which is people like us decided that Ezra Pound is, who is also a formalist indebted to the European and the Chinese, other older traditions.
Anne FernaldGUEST
Right, right.
Anne FernaldGUEST
And poetry helps us kind of refine our understanding of what those things are.
Uli BaerHOST
You do make a comment, it's not your main point, but that Ezra Pound is canonized and celebrated, and his political views, I think, are deeply offensive, hopefully, to many people, I think, hopefully, because I don't share them.
Uli BaerHOST
But her reputation is not that.
Uli BaerHOST
She's not in the anthologies, taught in the same way, doesn't come across.
Uli BaerHOST
So in some ways, why is it that the powers that be, which is people like us decided that Ezra Pound, who is also a formalist indebted to the European and the Chinese, other older traditions.
Anne FernaldGUEST
Right.
Anne FernaldGUEST
Well, I mean...
E. Michael JonesGUEST
Okay.
E. Michael JonesGUEST
And it led to a reaction and the reaction took place in an attack on Ezra Pound.
E. Michael JonesGUEST
The Jews did not like Ezra Pound because he made propaganda broadcasts for Mussolini during the war and talked about the kikes are doing this and the kikes are doing that, like classic Ezra Pound.
E. Michael JonesGUEST
And so they organized an uprising against Ezra Pound, which succeeded when I was in graduate school.
E. Michael JonesGUEST
And they changed the terms of the discussion.
E. Michael JonesGUEST
So before, if you asked T.S. Eliot or Ezra Pound, he'd say, well, the life of the poet is really not that important.
E. Michael JonesGUEST
What is important is the beauty of the object.
E. Michael JonesGUEST
One of the texts was called A Well-Wrought Urn.
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