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Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
American poet, critic, editor, and translator, considered one of the foremost American literary figures of the 20th century. Pound was a chief architect of English and American literary modernism, a movement characterized by experimentation in literary form and content, exploration of the literary traditions of non-Western and ancient cultures, and rejection of the traditions of the immediate past. As a poet, Pound experimented with various verse forms, from short poems focusing on concrete images to his epic masterpiece, the Cantos, a wide ranging series of poems combining ancient and modern history with Pound’s personal reflections and experiences. As a critic and editor, Pound discovered and encouraged many experimental authors, including Irish writer James Joyce, English poet T.S. Eliot and American writers Frost and Hemingway. As an essayist, he wrote manifestos establishing influential principles of style and theme.
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Early Life
Ezra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho. When he was still an infant, his family moved to Germantown, Pennsylvania. By age 15, Pound had decided to become a poet, resolving that by the age of 30 he “would know more about poetry than any man living.” In 1901 he entered the University of Pennsylvania, where he befriended the future poets William Carlos Williams and Hilda Doolittle. After two years he transferred to Hamilton College in New York State, and he graduated in 1905. He returned to the University of Pennsylvania for graduate studies in Romance languages, earning his M.A. degree. Pound then taught languages for a brief time at Wabash College in Indiana.
During his time in London, Pound supported himself by writing and teaching. He also served as the London representative for two American literary journals, the Chicago-based Poetry magazine and the New York City-based The Little Review. On the lookout for writers who seemed dedicated to reinvigorating literature of the period—or in his words, “making it new”—he regularly sent some of the era’s finest poems to be published in Poetry, notably T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915). Pound also edited early drafts of Eliot’s masterpiece The Waste Lng that there was no place in the United States for poets, Pound moved to Europe, living first in Venice, Italy. There he published his first volume of poetry, A Lume Spento (1908;). Convinced that London was “the place for poetry,” he relocated there and worked as the secretary of Irish poet William Butler Yeats.
American poet, critic, editor, and translator, considered one of the foremost American literary figures of the 20th century. Pound was a chief architect of English and American literary modernism, a movement characterized by experimentation in literary form and content, exploration of the literary traditions of non-Western and ancient cultures, and rejection of the traditions of the immediate past. As a poet, Pound experimented with various verse forms, from short poems focusing on concrete images to his epic masterpiece, the Cantos, a wide ranging series of poems combining ancient and modern history with Pound’s personal reflections and experiences. As a critic and editor, Pound discovered and encouraged many experimental authors, including Irish writer James Joyce, English poet T.S. Eliot and American writers Frost and Hemingway. As an essayist, he wrote manifestos establishing influential principles of style and theme.
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Early Life
Ezra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho. When he was still an infant, his family moved to Germantown, Pennsylvania. By age 15, Pound had decided to become a poet, resolving that by the age of 30 he “would know more about poetry than any man living.” In 1901 he entered the University of Pennsylvania, where he befriended the future poets William Carlos Williams and Hilda Doolittle. After two years he transferred to Hamilton College in New York State, and he graduated in 1905. He returned to the University of Pennsylvania for graduate studies in Romance languages, earning his M.A. degree. Pound then taught languages for a brief time at Wabash College in Indiana.
During his time in London, Pound supported himself by writing and teaching. He also served as the London representative for two American literary journals, the Chicago-based Poetry magazine and the New York City-based The Little Review. On the lookout for writers who seemed dedicated to reinvigorating literature of the period—or in his words, “making it new”—he regularly sent some of the era’s finest poems to be published in Poetry, notably T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915). Pound also edited early drafts of Eliot’s masterpiece The Waste Lng that there was no place in the United States for poets, Pound moved to Europe, living first in Venice, Italy. There he published his first volume of poetry, A Lume Spento (1908;). Convinced that London was “the place for poetry,” he relocated there and worked as the secretary of Irish poet William Butler Yeats.