Ezra Pound and the Pre-Raphaelites : A Reading of Pound's Early Works

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One of the leading poets in the 20th century, Ezra Pound is generally recognized by his experimental attempt to renovate poetical language in his early works and by the creation of a new poetics in his mature and major work The Cantos, which intends to incorporate human history itself in its poetical text. Among the most apparent characteristics which mark his text, is what he calls "ideogram": a particular way of citation of, not only Chinese characters suggesting Confucious ideas for example, but also of diverse pronouns or even historical facts or fragments, in the manner of collage. In this paper, as an origin of Poundian idea of "ideogram" we examine the use of "emblem" by the Pre-Raphaelites, whose influences on young Pound seem to have been rather neglected. In fact, we can find many allusions and comments on the Pre-Raphaelites in Pound's early writings. The study of their literary correspondence will cast a new light on the development of Pound's poetics.