Poundlike

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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."

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"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."

Etymology

From Pound + -like.

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