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A Lume Spento (translated by the author as With Tapers Quenched) is a 1908 poetry collection by Ezra Pound. Self-published in Venice, it was his first collection.
3 de sept. de 2010 · A lume spento -- A quinzaine for this Yule -- Some poems from the "San Trovaso" notebook Gallup, D. Pound (1983 ed.)
A Lume Spento (With Tapers Spent), which sold 100 copies at six cents each. The London Evening Standard called it "wild and haunting stuff, absolutely poetic, original, imaginative." The title was from the third canto of Dante's Purgatorio, alluding to both the excommunicate Manfred's death, and to that of
A Lume Spento. , with tapers quenched, in reference to a mourning ceremony mentioned by Dante. He also dedicated the volume to Smith, “Painter, Dreamer of Dreams”. There are some forty or so poems in the collection and they reflect both the student.
12 de oct. de 2022 · Ezra Pound is widely considered one of the most influential and most difficult poets of the 20th century; his contributions to Modernist poetry are enormous.
In 1908, Pound published his first volumes, A Lume Spento [With Tapers Quenched], A Quinzaine for This Yule, and Personae [Masks]. Content to live outside his native land, in September 1909, he settled in a sparse front room in London's Kensington section; five years later, he married Dorothy Shakespear.
Ezra Pound's first collection, A Lume Spento, self-published in Venice in 1908, recorded here in full. At the time, the London Evening Standard called it "wild and haunting stuff, absolutely...
