Ezra Pound

Died in 1972

Ezra Pound was born in 1885 in Hailey, Idaho, and grew up near Philadelphia. He studied Romance languages, lost a teaching post in 1908 for having sheltered a young woman and left for Europe with eighty dollars. In London and then in Paris, he helped James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost and Hilda Doolittle. Settled in Italy, he spoke during the war on Rome radio in favour of the regime. Arrested in 1945, put in a cage in a military camp near Pisa, declared unfit to stand trial, he spent more than twelve years in a psychiatric hospital in Washington. He died in Venice in 1972.

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