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Few students of literature and poetry would describe the works of Ezra Pound as easily accessible, yet as with any other artist we may perhaps shed some light on his difficult canon by examining some interrelated topics that were central to his development as a p ....

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.... tenets, set forth by Pound, “H.D.� (Hilda Doolittle), and Richard Aldington in 1912. The first states that the “thing� dealt with will be done so directly, whether subjectively or objectively (Spirit of Romance p.219). Pound insisted that the poem must present to the reader an active image, not a mere description of events or setting. Pound’s model for his directness was the prose of nineteenth century French authors such as Flaubert and DeMaupassant (Hakatuni p.48-49). The second tenet of Imagism is to “use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation� of the image in question. Pound elaborates by saying: †....