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Ezra Pound, 1885-1972 Ezra Weston Loomis Pound ("Ezra Pound"), along with T. S. Eliot, was one of the two main influences on British and U.S. poetry between the two world wars. Pound was born in a small, two-storey house in Hailey, Idaho Territory on October 30, 1885. Between 1897 and 1900 Pound attended Cheltenham Military Academy, sometimes as a boarder, where he specialized in Latin. Pound graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and went abroad to live in 1908. The collection of his Letters, 1907--1941 revealed the great erudition of this most controversial expatriate poet. His first book, A Lume Spento, a small collection of poems, was published in Venice in 1908. With the publication of Personae in London in 1909, he became the leader of the imagists abroad. Pound's writings have been subject to many foreign influences. First he imitated the troubadours; then he came under the influence of the Chinese and Japanese poets. The Cantos (1925--60), his major work, to which he added for many years, is a mixture of modern colloquial language and classical quotation. The Pisan Cantos (1948), written during his imprisonment in Italy, is more autobiographical. Pound's prose, as well as his poetry, has been extremely influential. The Spirit of Romance (1910) is a revision of his studies of little-known romance writers. ABC of Reading (1934) is an exposition of his critical method. His critical writings include Literary Essays of Ezra Pound (1954), Instigations (1920), and Guide to Kulchur (1938). Pound was a linguist, whom Eliot called "the inventor of Chinese poetry for our time." His greatest translating achievements from Japanese, Chinese, Anglo-Saxon, Italian, Provencal, and French are collected in The Translations of Ezra Pound (1933). Among his other writings are Make It New: Essays; Jefferson and/or Mussolini, a discussion of American democracy and capitalism and fascism; and The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan, with Ernest Fenollosa. Living in Italy, Pound felt that some of the practices of Mussolini were in accord with the doctrines of social credit, in which he had become interested in the 1920s and 1930s. He espoused some of the general applications of fascism and also was a strong advocate of anti-Semitism. During World War II, he broadcast a pro-Fascist series of programs addressed to the Allied troops on Italian radio. Indicted for treason and brought to the United States to stand trial in 1946, he was judged mentally incompetent to prepare a defense and was committed to St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C. for over 12 years. After a concerted appeal to the federal government by American poets, led by Robert Frost, Pound was at last released in 1958 and returned to Italy. Pound died on November 1, 1972. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Cantos of Ezra Pound… (more)
The Cantos of Ezra Pound 1,333 copies, 14 reviews
Selected Poems 1,268 copies, 6 reviews
ABC of Reading 1,030 copies, 19 reviews
Personæ 518 copies, 7 reviews
Literary Essays of Ezra Pound 391 copies, 3 reviews
Poems and translations 373 copies, 1 review
Selected Cantos of Ezra Pound 274 copies, 1 review
Guide to Kulchur 251 copies, 2 reviews
Selected Poems, 1908–1969 209 copies, 1 review
The Pisan Cantos 200 copies
Confucius 114 copies, 2 reviews
Cathay 96 copies, 2 reviews
Love Poems of Ancient Egypt 78 copies, 1 review
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How to Read 25 copies
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Homage to Sextus Propertius 13 copies, 1 review
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Patria mía 8 copies, 1 review
Des Imagistes: An Anthology (Editor) 7 copies, 1 review
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Le poesie scelte 4 copies, 2 reviews
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The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (Contributor) 1,213 copies, 9 reviews
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (Contributor, some editions) 897 copies, 7 reviews
A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (Contributor, some editions) 428 copies, 1 review
The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology (Contributor) 381 copies, 3 reviews
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Women of Trachis [in translation] (Translator, some editions) 229 copies, 3 reviews
Imagist Poetry (Penguin Modern Classics) (Contributor) 153 copies, 2 reviews
Imagist Poetry: An Anthology (Contributor) 136 copies, 1 review
The Ivory Tower (Afterword, some editions) 133 copies, 1 review
Poets of World War II (Contributor) 132 copies, 2 reviews
American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (Contributor) 130 copies, 3 reviews
A Comprehensive Anthology of American Poetry (Contributor) 125 copies, 2 reviews
The Imagist Poem (Contributor, some editions) 98 copies
The Natural Philosophy of Love (Translator, some editions) 95 copies
Twentieth-Century American Poetry (Contributor) 93 copies, 2 reviews
Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths (Contributor) 68 copies, 2 reviews
The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology (Contributor) 62 copies, 1 review
Lament for the Makers: A Memorial Anthology (Contributor) 49 copies, 1 review
The Ecopoetry Anthology (Contributor) 44 copies, 1 review
A Quarto of Modern Literature (Contributor) 38 copies
Moscardino (Translator, some editions) 37 copies, 1 review
60 Years of American Poetry (Contributor) 28 copies, 1 review
The Great Learning (Translator, some editions) 24 copies, 1 review
One World of Literature (Contributor) 23 copies
Praising It New: The Best of the New Criticism (Contributor) 22 copies, 1 review
William Carlos Williams: A Collection of Critical Essays (Contributor, some editions) 21 copies
Men and Women: The Poetry of Love (Contributor) 7 copies

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