What is Ezra Pound's primary contribution to literature?
I am known for the 'direct treatment of the 'thing'', for forging Modernism with an unshakeable belief in the precise image, an 'intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time'. My early work, *Personae*, *Ripostes*, sought to break the fog of Victorian verbiage. I championed Imagism, urging poets to discard vagueness, to present, not to state. This wasn't mere prettiness; it was the genesis of clarity, a vital renovation of poetic language, a necessary 'Make it New!' against the stale breath of the past. The poet as antenna, you see, must register the very throb of existence.
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