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īoth sides of Pound's family emigrated from England in the 17th century. Homer had previously worked for Thaddeus in the lumber business. Pound's grandfather, Thaddeus Coleman Pound, a Republican Congressman and the 10th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin, had secured him the appointment. Homer had worked in Hailey since 1883 as registrar of the General Land Office. Pound was born in 1885 in a two-story clapboard house in Hailey, Idaho Territory, the only child of Homer Loomis Pound (1858–1942) and Isabel Weston (1860–1948), who married in 1884. Thaddeus Coleman Pound, Pound's paternal grandfather, in the late 1880s His economic and political views have ensured that his life and work remain controversial.Įarly life and education (1885–1908) Family background Elizabeths in 1958 and lived in Italy until his death in 1972. After a campaign by his fellow writers, he was released from St. While in custody in Italy, Pound began work on sections of The Cantos, which were published as The Pisan Cantos (1948), for which he was awarded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1949 by the Library of Congress, causing enormous controversy. Elizabeths psychiatric hospital in Washington, D.C., for over 12 years. Deemed unfit to stand trial, he was incarcerated in St. military camp in Pisa, including three weeks in an outdoor steel cage. Roosevelt, Great Britain, international finance, munitions makers and mongers, and Jews, among others, as causes, abettors and prolongers of the world war, as a result of which he was arrested in 1945 by American forces in Italy on charges of treason.

During World War II and the Holocaust in Italy, he made hundreds of paid radio broadcasts for the Italian government, including in German-occupied Italy, attacking the United States, Franklin D. He moved to Italy in 1924 and through the 1930s and 1940s promoted an economic theory known as social credit, wrote for publications owned by the British fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, embraced Benito Mussolini's fascism, and expressed support for Adolf Hitler. Hemingway wrote in 1932 that, for poets born in the late 19th or early 20th century, not to be influenced by Pound would be 'like passing through a great blizzard and not feeling its cold.' Īngered by the carnage of World War I, Pound blamed the war on finance capitalism, which he called ' usury'. Alfred Prufrock', and the serialization from 1918 of Joyce's Ulysses. He was responsible for the 1914 serialization of Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the 1915 publication of Eliot's ' The Love Song of J. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, and James Joyce. Working in London as foreign editor of several American literary magazines, he helped discover and shape the work of contemporaries such as T. Pound's contribution to poetry began in the early 20th century with his role in developing Imagism, a movement stressing precision and economy of language. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem, The Cantos (c. 1917–1962). Ezra Pound photographed in 1913 by Alvin Langdon CoburnĮzra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II.

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