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9 pages in length. Ezra Pound was an American avant-garde poet, critic, and translator, who exerted an enormous influence over the development of English and American poetry and criticism during the early 20th century. Interestingly, Pound actually led the Modernist interest in Chinese poetry and is therefore quite significant to Asian studies. Report is largely a comprehensive, sociopolitical examination of Ezra Pound's influence, philosophy, and style. Bibliography lists 5 critical sources.
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American poetry and criticism during the early 20th century. Pound was born October 30, 1885, in Hailey, Idaho, and educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Hamilton College. He
went abroad in 1907 and from 1908 until 1930 lived in London, where he served as a foreign correspondent for the American magazines Poetry and The Little Review. Pound championed
and in some cases edited the works of T. S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, and other avant-garde authors writing in England. He also set forth the theories behind
the literary movement that came to be known as imagism. Pounds literary reputation was established very early, with the publication of Personae, a verse collection, in
1909. In 1920 Pound moved to Paris, where he became a leader of the American expatriate literary circle that included Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway; he also worked for the
American literary magazine Dial, translated from Italian, Chinese, and Japanese literature, and completed several books of criticism and poetry, including "Hugh Selwyn Mauberly" in 1920. In 1924 he settled
in Rapallo, Italy, and during World War II he broadcast Fascist propaganda from Rome to the U.S. He was arrested by the Americans in 1945, declared psychologically unfit to stand
trial for treason, and confined to a mental hospital in Washington, D.C. On his release in 1958, he returned to Italy, where he died November 1, 1972, in Venice
(Robinson 18-43; 72-79; 101-105). Ezra Pound was indeed one of the most controversial of all modern American poets. Friend and tireless promoter of James Joyce
and T.S. Eliot, among many other writers and artists of his time, Pound was a central figure in the new transatlantic cultural milieu before, during and after World War I.
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