Poundlike

English

Etymology

Pound +‎ -like

Adjective

Poundlike (comparative more Poundlike, superlative most Poundlike)

1. Resembling or characteristic of Ezra Pound (1885–1972), American modernist poet involved in developing imagism.
   • 2000, David Weisberg, Chronicles of Disorder, page 4:

     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.

   • 2020, Theodore Ziolkowski, Roman Poets in Modern Guise, page 124:

     And, as in Pound's case, his translations have been attacked by specialists—attacks that, like Pound, he has rejected with a Poundlike indignation.