庞德在二十世纪文学中占有特殊的地位。他是一位卓有成就的诗人,同样他帮助和影响了一大批作家和诗人,其中包括大名鼎鼎的叶芝、乔伊斯、艾略特、海明威和弗洛斯特。前四位是诺贝尔文学奖的获得者,后一位曾三次获美国普得策文学奖,是美国家喻户晓的大诗人。当然还有其他一些作家,至于间接受到他的影响的人更是难以说清。庞德是一位个性很强的人,据说他相当自我中心,对人也很冷漠,但一旦涉及诗歌问题,他就变得充满热情。庞德总是对人施加诗歌上的影响,他给叶芝当秘书时,叶芝已是举世闻名的大诗人,而庞德不过是刚出茅庐的毛头小伙子,但他居然成功地影响了叶芝,使叶芝晚年的诗风又一次发生了变化。庞德早年参加过意象主义运动,他的著名的《地铁站台》便是按意象派的原 Pound in the twentieth century literature occupies a special position. He is an accomplished poet, and similarly he helped and influenced a great number of writers and poets, including the famous Yeats, Joyce, Eliot, Hemingway and Frost. The first four are the recipients of the Nobel Prize for literature, the latter one won the Prize for Literature of the United States three times, and is a well-known American big poet. Of course, there are other writers who find it harder to tell the people indirectly affected by him. Pound is a very personal person who is said to be quite self-centered and indifferent to people, but he becomes passionate about poetry. Pound was always exerting a poetic influence on man. When he gave Yeats a secretary, Yeats was a world famous poet, and Pound was but a fledgling young fellow, but he actually succeeded in influencing Yeats, Yeats later poetry style changed again. Pound had participated in the early Imagist movement, his famous “subway platform” is based on the image of the original