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(1885-1972) Poet, editor, critic, translator. Ezra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho. He graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, in 1905, and received his master of arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1906. He lived in Manhattan, New York and was an extremely important influence in the shaping of 20th century poetry. He was one of the most famous and controversial literary figures of this century. Pound was, by turns, praised as a subtle and complex modern poet, dismissed as a naive egotist and pedant, and/or condemned as a traitor and reactionary. In 1907 he left the United States to travel in Europe, eventually settling in England. The series of poetry books he published there, including “Personae,” “Exultations,” “Canzoni,” and “Ripostes,” attracted attention for their originality and erudition. Pound encouraged many young writers, notably T.S. Eliot and James Joyce. In the early 1920s he moved to Paris, where he became associated with Gertrude Stein and Earnest Hemingway. By 1925 he was settled in Italy; there his literary ideas began to take a political and economic turn, and, discouraged by the faults and failings of English and American democracy, he began to develop many of the theories that were to make him unpopular in Great Britain and the United States.

Full Name

Ezra Pound

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


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RESIDENCE

Pound lived in Manhattan, New York.

1885

BIRTH

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho, in 1885.

1905

OTHER

Pound graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, in 1905.

1908

LITWORK

A Lume Spento


Collection of poetry.

1908

LITWORK

A Quinzaine for Yule


Collection of poetry.

1909

LITWORK

Personae


Collection of poetry.

1909

LITWORK

Exultations


Collection of poetry.

1910

LITWORK

Provenca


Collection of poetry.

1910

LITWORK

The Spirit of Romance


Criticism.

1911

LITWORK

Canzoni


Collection of poetry.

1912

LITWORK

Ripostes


Collection of poetry.

1940

LITWORK

Polite Essays


Collection of critical essays.

1970

LITWORK

The Cantos

1972

DEATH

Ezra Pound died in Venice, Italy in 1972.

1972

INTERMENT

Ezra Pound was interred in Cimitero di San Michele, Venice, Veneto, Italy.

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