biography
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Pound, Ezra (Weston Loomis)
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| (1885–1972)
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| Poet and writer, born in Hailey, Idaho, USA. Brought up in Pennsylvania, he studied at Hamilton College, NY (1905 BPh), and the University of Pennsylvania (1906 MA). He taught at Wabash College, IN (1906), travelled in Europe (1906–7), then lived in London (1908–20), Paris (1920–4), and Italy (1924–45). He was arrested and jailed for treason by the USA (1945) because he had made public broadcasts in Italy during World War 2 supporting anti-Semitism and Fascism. Judged insane, he was committed to St Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, DC, and released in 1958. He then returned to Italy. He was a founder of the imagist poetry movement and was editor of several intellectual periodicals, such as Poetry (1912–19), The Little Review (1917–19), and The Exile (1927–8). A prolific translator, literary critic, and poet, both as an editor and mentor he helped shape the poetry of the 20th-c, playing a major role, for instance, in the final version of T S Eliot's ‘The Waste Land’. Of his own work, he is most apt to be remembered for Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (1920) and for his Cantos, a series of poems written over many years (1917–70). |
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