Poundlike

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English

Etymology

From Pound +‎ -like.

Adjective

Poundlike (comparative more Poundlike, superlative most Poundlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of Ezra Pound (1885–1972), American modernist poet involved in developing imagism.
    • 2000, David Weisberg, Chronicles of Disorder, page 4:
      To both Beckett and Orwell, a Poundlike injunction to make the novel "new" coupled with a faith in the (abstract) revolutionary power of autonomous art would have sounded hollow and naive, perhaps dangerously so.
    • 2020, Theodore Ziolkowski, Roman Poets in Modern Guise, page 124:
      And, as in Pound's case, his translations have been attacked by specialists—attacks that, like Pound, he has rejected with a Poundlike indignation.