''Ripostes of Ezra Pound'' is a collection of 25 poems by the American poet

Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Fascism, fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works ...

, submitted to Swift and Co. in London in February 1912, and published by them in October that year. It was published in the United States in July 1913 by Small, Maynard and Co of Boston."Poems and Translations"
The Library of America, accessed October 21, 2010. ''Ripostes'' is the first collection in which Pound moves toward the economy of language and clarity of imagery of the Imagism movement, and was the first time he used the word "Imagiste." Of its 25 poems, "Salve Pontifex" had appeared in ''

A Lume Spento ''A Lume Spento'' (translated by the author as ''With Tapers Quenched'') is a 1908 poetry collection by Ezra Pound. Self-published in Venice, it was his first collection. Background and writing Ezra Pound (1885–1972) studied Romance languages ...

'', and eight others had appeared in magazines. The book includes Pound's interpretation of the Old English poem, "The Seafarer".Alexander, Michael. ''The Poetic Achievement of Ezra Pound''. University of California Press, 1979, p. 61ff.

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