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Ezra Pound Biography
in full Ezra Loomis Pound
( 1885 – 1972 )
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Table Of Contents
Early life and career
Success abroad
A shaper of modern literature
Development as a poet
The Cantos
Anti-American broadcasts
Related Works
Poetry 1908 A Lume Spento 1909 Sestina Altaforte 1909 Personae 1910 Provença 1911 Canzoni 1912 Ripostes 1916 Lustra 1919 Quia Pauper Amavi 1919 Homage to Sextus Propertius 1920 Hugh Selwyn Mauberly 1925 A Draft of XVI Cantos 1930 A Draft of XXX Cantos 1934 Eleven New Cantos 1937 The Fifth Decad of Cantos 1940 Cantos LII–LXXI 1948 The Pisan Cantos 1956 Section: Rock-Drill: 85–95 de los Cantares 1959 Thrones: 96–109 de los Cantares 1970 The Cantos of Ezra Pound (I–CXVII) 1976 Collected Early Poems Essays 1910 The Spirit of Romance 1937 Polite Essays Criticism 1918 Pavannes and Division 1920 Instigations 1923 Indiscretions 1931 How to Read 1934 ABC of Reading 1938 A Guide to Kulchur Other 1916 Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir 1954 The Classic Anthology Defined by Confucious 1956 The Women of Trachis close
» more (born Oct. 30, 1885, Hailey, Idaho, U.S.—died Nov. 1, 1972, Venice, Italy) American poet and critic, a supremely discerning and energetic entrepreneur of the arts who did more than any other single figure to advance a “modern” movement in English and American literature. Pound promoted, and also occasionally helped to shape, the work of such widely different poets and novelists as William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Frost, D.H. Lawrence, and T.S. Eliot. His pro-Fascist broadcasts in Italy during World War II led to his postwar arrest and confinement until 1958.
Early life and career
Pound was born in a small mining town in Idaho, the only child of a Federal Land Office official, Homer Loomis Pound of Wisconsin, and Isabel Weston of New York City. About 1887 the family moved to the eastern states, and in June 1889, following Homer Pound's appointment to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, they settled in nearby Wyncote, where Pound lived a normal middle-class childhood.
After two years at Cheltenham Military Academy, which he left without graduating, he attended a local high school. From there he went for two years (1901–03) to the University of Pennsylvania, where he met his lifelong friend, the poet William Carlos Williams. He took a Ph.B. (bachelor of philosophy) degree at Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., in 1905 and returned to the University of Pennsylvania for graduate work. He received his M.A. in June 1906 but withdrew from the university after working one more year toward his doctorate. He left with a knowledge of Latin, Greek, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Provençal, and Anglo-Saxon, as well as of English literature and grammar.
In the autumn of 1907, Pound became professor of Romance languages at Wabash Presbyterian College, Crawfordsville, Ind. Although his general behaviour fairly reflected his Presbyterian upbringing, he was already writing poetry and was affecting a bohemian manner. His career came quickly to an end, and in February 1908, with light luggage and the manuscript of a book of poems that had been rejected by at least one American publisher, he set sail for Europe.
He had been to Europe three times before, the third time alone in the summer of 1906, when he had gathered the material for his first three published articles: “Raphaelite Latin,” concerning the Latin poets of the Renaissance, and “Interesting French Publications,” concerning the troubadours (both published in the Book News Monthly, Philadelphia, September 1906), and “Burgos, a Dream City of Old Castile” (October issue).
Now, with little money, he sailed to Gibraltar and southern Spain, then on to Venice, where in June 1908 he published, at his own expense, his first book of poems, A lume spento. About September 1908 he went to London, where he was befriended by the writer and editor Ford Madox Ford (who published him in his English Review), entered William Butler Yeats's circle, and joined the “school of images,” a modern group presided over by the philosopher T.E. Hulme.
Ezra Pound Biography
in full Ezra Loomis Pound
( 1885 – 1972 )
Please read it through the link.
http://www.biography.com/articles/Ezra-Pound-9445428
Table Of Contents
Early life and career
Success abroad
A shaper of modern literature
Development as a poet
The Cantos
Anti-American broadcasts
Related Works
Poetry 1908 A Lume Spento 1909 Sestina Altaforte 1909 Personae 1910 Provença 1911 Canzoni 1912 Ripostes 1916 Lustra 1919 Quia Pauper Amavi 1919 Homage to Sextus Propertius 1920 Hugh Selwyn Mauberly 1925 A Draft of XVI Cantos 1930 A Draft of XXX Cantos 1934 Eleven New Cantos 1937 The Fifth Decad of Cantos 1940 Cantos LII–LXXI 1948 The Pisan Cantos 1956 Section: Rock-Drill: 85–95 de los Cantares 1959 Thrones: 96–109 de los Cantares 1970 The Cantos of Ezra Pound (I–CXVII) 1976 Collected Early Poems Essays 1910 The Spirit of Romance 1937 Polite Essays Criticism 1918 Pavannes and Division 1920 Instigations 1923 Indiscretions 1931 How to Read 1934 ABC of Reading 1938 A Guide to Kulchur Other 1916 Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir 1954 The Classic Anthology Defined by Confucious 1956 The Women of Trachis close
» more (born Oct. 30, 1885, Hailey, Idaho, U.S.—died Nov. 1, 1972, Venice, Italy) American poet and critic, a supremely discerning and energetic entrepreneur of the arts who did more than any other single figure to advance a “modern” movement in English and American literature. Pound promoted, and also occasionally helped to shape, the work of such widely different poets and novelists as William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Frost, D.H. Lawrence, and T.S. Eliot. His pro-Fascist broadcasts in Italy during World War II led to his postwar arrest and confinement until 1958.
Early life and career
Pound was born in a small mining town in Idaho, the only child of a Federal Land Office official, Homer Loomis Pound of Wisconsin, and Isabel Weston of New York City. About 1887 the family moved to the eastern states, and in June 1889, following Homer Pound's appointment to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, they settled in nearby Wyncote, where Pound lived a normal middle-class childhood.
After two years at Cheltenham Military Academy, which he left without graduating, he attended a local high school. From there he went for two years (1901–03) to the University of Pennsylvania, where he met his lifelong friend, the poet William Carlos Williams. He took a Ph.B. (bachelor of philosophy) degree at Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., in 1905 and returned to the University of Pennsylvania for graduate work. He received his M.A. in June 1906 but withdrew from the university after working one more year toward his doctorate. He left with a knowledge of Latin, Greek, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Provençal, and Anglo-Saxon, as well as of English literature and grammar.
In the autumn of 1907, Pound became professor of Romance languages at Wabash Presbyterian College, Crawfordsville, Ind. Although his general behaviour fairly reflected his Presbyterian upbringing, he was already writing poetry and was affecting a bohemian manner. His career came quickly to an end, and in February 1908, with light luggage and the manuscript of a book of poems that had been rejected by at least one American publisher, he set sail for Europe.
He had been to Europe three times before, the third time alone in the summer of 1906, when he had gathered the material for his first three published articles: “Raphaelite Latin,” concerning the Latin poets of the Renaissance, and “Interesting French Publications,” concerning the troubadours (both published in the Book News Monthly, Philadelphia, September 1906), and “Burgos, a Dream City of Old Castile” (October issue).
Now, with little money, he sailed to Gibraltar and southern Spain, then on to Venice, where in June 1908 he published, at his own expense, his first book of poems, A lume spento. About September 1908 he went to London, where he was befriended by the writer and editor Ford Madox Ford (who published him in his English Review), entered William Butler Yeats's circle, and joined the “school of images,” a modern group presided over by the philosopher T.E. Hulme.
