Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
- Ezra pound was born in 1885 in American and died in 1972 in Venice, Italy.
- He was an American poet and a historian.
- He was an expatriate U.S. poet, critic and historian who was a major figure in the early modernist movement.
- His contribution to poetry began with his development of his magism.
- His best known works are "Ripotes", "Hugh Selwyn Mauberly" and the unfinished 120 section epic "The Cantos".
- He was an American by birth but later he settled in England.
- Ezra pound in generally considered the poet most responsible for defining and promoting a modernist asethetic in poetry.
- Indicted for high treason in the USA in 1945, we was later confined for life in a mental hospital but he was released in 1958.
- Poems:
Usura, A Lume Spento, Hugh Selwyn Mauberly, Personae, Cathay, The Spirit of Romance, Provenca, Canzoni Repostes.
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