Ezra Pound: Poems and Translations

The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound

The Pisan Cantos

Ezra Pound among the Poets

Selected Cantos of Ezra Pound

From ForCarl
Ezra Pound (1885-1972) American poet, critic, musician, and championed the likes of T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams and James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemmingway and Pablo Picasso and a mentor to W.B, Yeats. Ezra Pound also played an important role in the early career of Robert Frost.
Enamored with Benito Mussolini, Pound made anti-American radio broadcast during World War II. He was arrested as a traitor in 1945 and initially confined in Pisa. He was then sent to the U.S., where he was deemed mentally unfit to stand trial for treason. After 12 years in a Washington, D.C. mental institution.Ezra got out of St. Elizabeth's because a Congressman named Usher Burdick, at the behest of a fellow named Rex Lampman (Lampman's father owned a Fargo newspaper that helped to get Burdick elected), got up on the floor of the Congress and asked "Why is this man being held?". Burdick knew nothing of Ezra Pound, but he did some digging and found out that America's greatest living poet had been held in a mental hospital for 13 years with no trial. It was through Burdick's efforts and not Robert Frost that Ezra was released. Upon Release Pound returned to Italy, where he died in 1972 at the age of 87.

From Wikipedia
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (October 30, 1885 – November 1, 1972) was an American expatriate poet, musician, and critic who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in early-to mid- 20th century poetry. He was the driving force behind several Modernist movements, notably Imagism and Vorticism. The critic Hugh Kenner said on meeting Pound: "I suddenly knew that I was in the presence of the center of modernism."(more)

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