Poundlike

comparative more Poundlike · superlative most Poundlike

1. Resembling or characteristic of Ezra Pound (1885–1972), American modernist poet involved in developing imagism.

   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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   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