Ripostes of Ezra Pound is a collection of 25 poems by the American poet Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry...

, submitted to Swift and Co. in London in February 1912, and published by them in October that year. It was published in the United States in July 1913 by Small, Maynard and Co of Boston.

Ripostes is the first collection in which Pound moves toward the economy of language and clarity of imagery of the Imagism

Imagism

Imagism was a movement in early 20th-century Anglo-American poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. The Imagists rejected the sentiment and discursiveness typical of much Romantic and Victorian poetry. This was in contrast to their contemporaries, the Georgian poets,...

 movement, and was the first time he used the word "Imagiste." Of its 25 poems, "Salve Pontifex" had appeared in A Lume Spento, and eight others had appeared in magazines. The book includes Pound's interpretation of the Old English poem, "The Seafarer".

Further reading

• For the original text of The Seafarer, see "The Seafarer", Anglo-Saxons.net, accessed 19 October 2010.
• For Pound's interpretation, see Pound, Ezra. "The Seafarer", Representative Poetry Online, University of Toronto, accessed 19 October 2010.