Ezra Pound

Peter Wilson

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.08: English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Peter Childs (Birmingham Newman University), Louise McDonald (Birmingham Newman University), Andrew Radford (University of Glasgow)

Dates

Born 30 Oct 1885
Died 1 Nov 1972
Activity 1908-1969

Places

Born in United States
Active in England; United States; France; Italy

Activities

Primary

Cultural Theorist/ Critic
Literary Critic/ Historian
Poet

Other

Anthologist
Art Theorist/ Historian/ Critic
Biographer
Composer
Cultural Theorist/ Critic
Editor
Essayist
Journalist
Letter-writer/ Diarist
Literary Theorist
Music critic or historian
Playwright / Dramatist
Polemicist
Political writer
Scholar
Teacher/ Professor
Translator

Resources

Pound's Works

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Ezra Pound was born in what was still the wild west. His parents, Homer and Isobel, had temporarily settled there because Homer had a government appointment at the Hailey Land Office. The family returned back east when Pound was an infant and he spent his childhood and youth in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1898 a wealthy aunt took him on a European tour, giving him an initial encounter with cities and cultures that would figure significantly in his life and work. This Europeanism was given critical and academic rigour by a lengthy period of undergraduate and postgraduate study leading to a master's degree in Romance Languages. Pound emerged with a wide-ranging knowledge of Classical and Romance literature. Homer's

Odyssey

and Ovid's

Metamorphoses

were the most significant of the…

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Citation: Wilson, Peter. "Ezra Pound". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 June 2002 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5112, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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