Ezra Pound Teacher Resources

Whether it's St. Patrick's Day or not, this lesson can be a great way to study James Joyce and how his heritage has influenced his writing. The lesson is meant to be used with the Gale database, specifically the Student Resource Center...

Rhyme, rhythm, free verse, imagery: Do these words describe poetry, or jazz music? The answer is both! A resource explores these similarities as scholars watch a video, engage in discussion, read author biographies, write poetry and...

Challenge your class with this comprehensive list of literary vocabulary words. Learners take a pre-test, look up definitions, come up with an example, and then take a post-test. You might use this prior to a unit about poetic devices in...

Students examine the themes of loneliness and frustrated love in the work of Carson McCullers. In this theme analysis activity, students complete a comparison of patterns in the novels of McCullers as a part of a theme analysis.

In this Idaho learning exercise, students complete 20 questions about Idaho trivia. Students may click on an answer button for immediate feedback.

Students examine the Chinese poem "The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter" by Li Po while comparing the different ways of "reading" an artwork in order to understand the differences between Chinese and American painting.

Poet and mentor Ezra Pound is the focus of this brief biography highlighting his works and energy for new artistic movements of the early twentieth century. Click on "Ezra Pound Activities" for related materials.

This is a very good site from the Academy of American Poets about Ezra Pound. The site houses a biography of the poet, a selected bibliography of his work, as well as links to full texts of several of his well known works.

A timeline, photo, bibliograpy and selected poems of Ezra Pound.

Part of a video series that "explores the lives and works of 13 of America's most famous poets," this site consists of a video (with transcript) and a series of links to resources about Pound, including an excerpt of "Canto LXXXI." [56:59]

This site from the University of Groningen provides a good exposition of the well known imagist poet, Ezra Pound. Includes links to T.S. Eliot and W. C. Williams.

Poets.org provides an overview of the poets from a particular state. The overview for Idaho includes information on featured poets (Ezra Pound and Robert Wrigley) and poems specifically about Idaho.

Maintained by the "McLuhan Studies Journal," this article by Edward Barton from the University of Toronto focuses on Pound's influence on Marshall McLuhan during their years of correspondence. This site is more useful for McLuhan studies...

This resource provides the text of several of Pound's poems, including "Alba," "In a Station of the Metro," and "Canto I."

Twenty-five lectures from Yale course, ENGL 310: Modern Poetry, with a syllabus, handouts, reading assignments, activities, and a final exam study guide. Lectures are available as text transcripts, audio, and video. Poets and topics...

A timeline, photo, bibliograpy and selected poems of Ezra Pound.

This lesson focuses on William Carlos Williams and his poems using images of everyday life including "The Red Wheelbarrow" and "This is Just to Say."

Read about Ernest Hemmingway (1899-1961 CE), the author of such works as "The Sun Also Rises" and "The Old Man and the Sea," who was awarded with the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. This website includes a biography, resources for...

Thirteen videos on the works and lives of renowned American poets, including Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, and Robert Frost. With performances, interviews, and dramatic readings.

'The Waste Land' is a long poem by the American writer T.S Eliot. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.

Through close reading of "The Waste Land" in its original manuscript form, students will explore how the poem evolved in the process of editing. By reading contemporary letters and reviews, students will be guided towards a more informed...

This excellent site pays tribute to Harriet Monroe, her works, and her contemporaries. Contains the history of the term, published in 1915.

Resource provides a brief biography of Eliot with a bibliography of his works. Of particular interest is an audio clip of Eliot reading "La Figlia Che Piange." The site also provides a basic explanation of Modernism and hyperlinks to...

Contains a brief explanation of the Imagist school of poetry. Also includes a copy of Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" and the three tenets of Imagism as defined by Pound.