‘September on the Jessore Road’ is written by:

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.