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Poundlike en · ADJ

Etymology

From Pound + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of Ezra Pound (1885–1972), American modernist poet involved in developing imagism.
   • 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. 2000, David Weisberg, Chronicles of Disorder, page 4:
   • And, as in Pound's case, his translations have been attacked by specialists—attacks that, like Pound, he has rejected with a Poundlike indignation. 2020, Theodore Ziolkowski, Roman Poets in Modern Guise, page 124:

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