Hart Crane

Emily Dickinson

T. S. Eliot

Robert Frost

Langston Hughes

Robert Lowell

Marianne Moore

Sylvia Plath

Ezra Pound

Wallace Stevens

Walt Whitman

William Carlos Williams

Voices & Visions

Although admired for his contribution to poetry — among other things, he founded the imagist movement — Ezra Pound was also considered a controversial figure for his erratic personality and the political views he expressed during World War II. Pound saw the poet as a "guide and lamp of civilization," and into his best-known work, the 800-page Cantos, he poured his knowledge of philosophy, economics, art, and history. However divided his critics, Pound's bold theories and poetic experiments set the standards of modernism.

• View a video clip of the Ezra Pound poem "Canto LXXXI".

Academy of American Poets

Hear Pound's own inimitable reading of "Canto I," read other Pound poems, and find a brief Pound biography and a list of other helpful Pound links.

Kobe University: Ezra Pound

A haunting photograph of Pound in his later years greets you on Michael Eiichi Hishikawa's Pound page. Hishikawa, an associate professor of American Literature, also presents a biography and an extensive bibliography of Pound criticism.

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library of Yale University

T. S. Eliot called Pound "the inventor of Chinese poetry for our time." Explore how Pound and other American writers were influenced by Far East art and literature at the online version of "Petals on a Wet Black Bough: American Modernist Writers and the Orient," presented by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library of Yale University.

SUNY-Buffalo, Electronic Poetry Center

Pound's works and politics are fervently discussed at the State University of New York at Buffalo's Electronic Poetry Center.

University of Toronto

Did Pound contribute to the end of the Gutenberg era? Read Edwin J. Barton's revealing article on Pound's nine-year correspondence with Marshall McLuhan in the premiere issue of the University of Toronto's McLuhan Studies.