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Biography

Name: Ezra Loomis Pound
Birth Date: October 30, 1885
Death Date: November 1, 1972
Place of Birth: Hailey, Idaho, United States
Place of Death: Venice, Italy
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: poet

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Biography of Ezra Loomis Pound
21,524 words, approx. 72 pages
Ezra Pound's influence on the development of poetry in the twentieth century has unquestionably been greater than that of any other poet. No other writer has written as much poetry and criticism or devoted as much energy to the advancement of the arts...
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Biography of Ezra (Weston Loomis) Pound
20,196 words, approx. 67 pages
Ezra Pound 's influence on the development of poetry in the twentieth century has unquestionably been greater than that of any other poet. No other writer has written as much poetry and criticism or devoted as much energy to the advancement of the arts...
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Biography of Ezra (Weston Loomis) Pound
11,209 words, approx. 37 pages
One of the dominant figures of twentieth-century American literature, Ezra Weston Loomis Pound spent nearly the entirety of his controversial career in exile. Following in the footsteps of Henry James and Whistler, he left America in 1908 to make his...
 


Quotations
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Ezra Pound Quotes
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Ezra Pound ( October 30 , 1885 – November 1 , 1972 ) was an American expatriate poet, musician and critic who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in early to mid-20th century poetry. He was the driving force behind several Modernist...


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Ezra Pound Information
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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (October 30 1885 – November 1 1972) was an American expatriate poet, critic and intellectual who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in early-to-mid 20th century poetry. He was the driving force behind several...


News and Journals
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Exacting the Flesh of Ezra Pound
03/17/1995: 579 words, approx. 2 pages
Sarah Blustain Forward 03-17-1995 Exacting the Flesh of Ezra Pound. When the final curtain fell on "Incommunicado," playwright Tom Dulack's morally equivocal presentation of Ezra Pound's detention on death row for treason, the audience seemed unprepared to applaud. It started slowly in...
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The Economist (US)
Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism.
08/17/1991: 550 words, approx. 2 pages
THE young American poet Ezra Pound England in 1908 to make his mark on the social and intellectual heights of Edwardian London. Being determined and forceful, he succeeded. For a time, Pound played the aesthete to perfection, pursuing his quaint studies into the...
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AP News
Penn archive offers downloadable poetry
5/9/2007: 283 words, approx. 1 pages
When you're done loading your iPod with Better than Ezra and Carlos Santana, why not try a little Ezra Pound or William Carlos Williams?Recordings of the poets' works are available for free through PennSound, an online audio archive developed by professors at the University of...
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Poet Seidel relates his inspired life
4/7/2007: 1,506 words, approx. 5 pages
Frederick Seidel, one of the world's most inspired and unusual poets, orders an espresso and Pellegrino at the Carlyle Hotel.It is late morning, dark and cozy in the Carlyle's Gallery lounge. The Twin Towers have fallen. George W. Bush is president. Robert Kennedy is dead....
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Shari Benstock
16,900 words, approx. 56 pages
In the following essay, Benstock examines American female modernist writers living in Paris, believing that many of them were ignored unfairly by such American editors as Ezra Pound, whom she perceives as predisposed to give short shrift to women writers.
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Critical Essay by Frank Lentricchia
10,733 words, approx. 36 pages
In the following essay, Lentricchia examines the modernist ideals and Emersonian influence behind Pound's ambitious innovation in The Cantos. According to Lentricchia, "The form he invented is at once the representation of a culture he thought to be in fragments and an offering of hope for a different kind of future, rooted in the narrative of common lineage and destiny."
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Critical Essay by Stephen Sicari
9,640 words, approx. 32 pages
In the following essay, Sicari argues that Pound's explanation of heroic action in his pre-war Cantos helped formulate his later professed admiration for Fascism.
 
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Ezra Pound
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Research paper on Ezra Pound as an Imagist (includes analysis of many poems).


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