Whose belief in civil disobedience did the beats emulate?
a. henry david thoreau
b. lawrence ferlinghetti
c. amiri baraka
d. ezra pound

the correct answer is Ezra Pound.

Explanation: There is an essay describes the image of the American modernist poet Ezra Pound as presented by the best-known representative of the Beat Generation Allen Ginsberg and the San Francisco poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Ginsbergʼs opinionl of Pound is seen as complete to his long-time effort to gain broader recognition for the work of the Beats. The development of Ferlinghettiʼs views of Pound is defined, attention is paid not only to the poetʼs literary work, but also to his art.

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound is an expatriate American poet and critic, and a main figure in the early modernist poetry movement. His benefaction to poetry began with his development of Imagism, a movement derived from classical Chinese and Japanese poetry, emphasizing clarity, precision and economy of language. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920) and the unfinished 120-section epic, The Cantos (1917–1969).

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