- Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic, and a major figure in the early modernist movement
| Born: | 30 October 1885 Comment | | When did Ezra Pound die? / Died | 01 November 1972 | | How many years did Ezra Pound live? / Lived | 87 years | | Zodiac sign: | Scorpio |
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Ezra Pound facts
- His contribution to poetry began with his development of Imagism, a movement derived from classical Chinese and Japanese poetry, stressing clarity, precision and economy of language
- His best-known works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920) and the unfinished 120-section epic, The Cantos (1917–1969)
- Working in London in the early 20th century as foreign editor of several American literary magazines, Pound helped discover and shape the work of contemporaries such as T
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- Eliot, James Joyce, Robert Frost and Ernest Hemingway
- This included arranging for the publication in 1915 of Eliot's "The Love Song of J
- Alfred Prufrock" and the serialization from 1918 of Joyce's Ulysses
- Angered by the carnage of World War I, Pound lost faith in England and blamed the war on usury and international capitalism
- He moved to Italy in 1924, and throughout the 1930s and 1940s he embraced Benito Mussolini's fascism, expressed support for Adolf Hitler, and wrote for publications owned by the British fascist Oswald Mosley
- During World War II, he was paid by the Italian government to make hundreds of radio broadcasts criticizing the United States, Franklin D
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