# Ripostes

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{{Short description|Book by Ezra Pound}}
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|author              = [Ezra Pound](/source/Ezra_Pound) 
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'''''Ripostes of Ezra Pound''''' is a collection of 25 poems by the American poet [Ezra Pound](/source/Ezra_Pound), submitted to Swift and Co. in London in February 1912, and published by them in October that year.<ref>Wilson, Peter. [http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=2386 "Ripostes of Ezra Pound"]. ''The Literary Encyclopedia'', September 7, 2004, accessed October 19, 2010.
*For submission and publication months, see Pound, Ezra. [https://books.google.com/books?id=bS9bAAAAMAAJ&q=%22in+February+1912%22 ''Poems and translations''], Library of America, 2003, p. 1239.</ref> It was published in the United States in July 1913 by Small, Maynard and Co of Boston.<ref name=LA>[http://www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=201&section=notes "Poems and Translations"], The Library of America, accessed October 21, 2010.</ref>

''Ripostes'' is the first collection in which Pound moves toward the economy of language and clarity of imagery of the [Imagism](/source/Imagism) movement, and was the first time he used the word "Imagiste." Of its 25 poems, "Salve Pontifex" had appeared in ''[A Lume Spento](/source/A_Lume_Spento)'', and eight others had appeared in magazines.<ref name=LA/> The book includes Pound's interpretation of the Old English poem ["The Seafarer"](/source/The_Seafarer_(poem)).<ref>Alexander, Michael. ''The Poetic Achievement of Ezra Pound''. University of California Press, 1979, p. 61ff.</ref>

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==Further reading==
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*For the original text of ''The Seafarer'', see [http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=text&id=Sfr&textOnly=true "The Seafarer"], Anglo-Saxons.net, accessed October 19, 2010.
*For Pound's interpretation, see Pound, Ezra. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110501085717/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1664.html "The Seafarer"], Representative Poetry Online, University of Toronto, accessed October 19, 2010.
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