Research topic: Ezra Loomis Pound

Ezra Loomis Pound 1885-1972, American poet, critic, and translator, b. Hailey, Idaho, grad. Hamilton College, 1905, M.A. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1906. An extremely important influence in the shaping of 20th-century poetry, he was one of the most famous and controversial literary figures of the century—praised as a subtle and complex modern poet, dismissed as a naive egotist and pedant, condemned as a traitor and reactionary. In 1907, Pound left the United States to travel in Europe, eventually settling in England. There he published a series of small books of poetry—including... Read more