In The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein calls this author "a village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not."
In The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein calls this author "a village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not." Hugh Kenner's profile of this author, which places him at the center of his contemporaries, is titled for his "Era." A letter by this author explains that the British Empire "some centuries earlier" is reflected in a poem in which "Caesar plots against India" and "victor and conquered" will become "one tangle of shadows." In the same set of poems, this author reversed a line praising Virgil's epic poetry from Book II by an (*) ancient author who explained why he writes love poems instead of epics. This man was misinterpreted by critics who said he made poor translations in Quia pauper amavi, which re-interprets a series of elegies celebrating Cynthia. He suggested the name "Vorticism" for the movement led by his friend Wyndham Lewis and used the slogan "Make it new" to guide Modernism. For 10 points, name this author of "Homage to Sextus Propertius."
In The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein calls this author "a village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not."
Ezra Pound [accept The Pound Era]