Ezra Pound’s Yuletide message

Ezra Pound’s Yuletide message

When we think of modernist art, a stern biblical phrase like “Lord God of Heaven” is not what comes to mind. Yet an argument could be made that literary modernism kicks off with just those words, at the head of this archaic stanza: Lord God of heaven that with mercy dight Th’ alternate prayer wheel of the night and the light Eternal hath to thee, and in whose sight Our days as rain drops in the sea surge fall… This is the first stanza in Ezra Po…