by Ezra Pound

Modern American Poetry: Ezra Pound
This site includes links to Pound biographies and commentaries on his poems. Go to the links for the two poems you are studying, read the critiques, and select the one you find most helpful. Write a short note to the commentator, explaining how the comments enrich your reading of the poem.

Petals on a Wet Black Bough
This site preserves an exhibition on American Modernist Writers and the Orient, held at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in 1996. Ezra Pound was a leader in this movement which saw writers looking to the Far East for inspiration. As you explore the site, be sure to read the link on Ezra Pound and his mentor in this area, Ernest Fenollosa. In the Web Links Activity Log record three important facts you learn from your exploration.