Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. … .. . John Donne ...
This poem by Ezra Pound is a wonderful miniature of English society, captured in a poem for the ages. It is also one of the best free verse poems from the early modernists known as the Imagists. Today the best-known Imagists are Pound and his protégé T. S. Eliot (who has two po...