Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound in 1963

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an American poet and critic. He was a major figure of the early modernist movement and free verse. His best-known works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920) and the unfinished The Cantos (1917–69). He was also one of the important members of the Early Modernist Movement and was known for his support for fascism.

Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho Territory. In the early 20th century he worked in London as foreign editor of several American magazines. He died at a hospital in Venice, Italy from a sudden intestinal blockage, aged 87.

Ezra Pound Media

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  Thaddeus Coleman Pound, Pound's paternal grandfather, in the late 1880s

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  In his Cheltenham Military Academy uniform with his mother, 1898

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  Depicted person: H.D. – American Imagist poet (1886-1961)

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  Pound married Dorothy Shakespear in 1914.

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  First floor of the Vienna Café with its mirrored ceiling, Oxford Street, in 1897. The room became a meeting place for Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and other writers.

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  Pound lived on the first floor of 10 Church Walk, Kensington, from September 1909 – June 1910 and November 1911 – April 1914.

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  First edition of Poetry, October 1912

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