Full Name: Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

Father: Homer Loomis Pound (1858–1942)
Mother: Isabel Weston (1860–1948)
Wife: Dorothy Shakespear (m. 1914)
Girlfriend: Olga Rudge, Hilda Doolittle (poet)

Born: October 30, 1885
Birth Place: Hailey, Idaho Territory, USA
Died: November 1, 1972 (aged 87)
Death Place: Venice, Italy
Cause of Death: Unspecified

Remains: Buried, Cimitero di San Michele, Venice, Italy
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Nationality: United States
Education: Cheltenham Military Academy, Hamilton College, University of Pennsylvania
Occupation: Journalist, Poet
Awards: Bollingen Prize

Albums: Ego Scriptor Cantilenae: The Music of Ezra Pound (feat. conductor: Robert Hughes).

Books: ABC of reading, Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, Lustra, Poems and translations, Pound/Lewis, Selected prose, 1909-1965, Collected early poems of Ezra Pound, The spirit of romance etc.

An American expatriate poet and critic, a major figure of the early modernist movement Ezra Pound was born October 30, 1885, in Hailey. In 1908 he come to Europe, where he published several successful books of poetry. Ezra advanced a "modern" movement in English and American literature. His pro-Fascist broadcasts in Italy during World War II led to his arrest and confinement until 1958. He died November 1, 1972, in Venice, Italy.

Early Life: An American expatriate poet and critic, a major figure of the early modernist movement Ezra Pound was born October 30, 1885, in Hailey, Idaho Territory, USA. He grew up in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, attending several Quaker primary schools and then from 1898 until 1900 Cheltenham Military Academy as a teenager. Pound's first trip overseas came two years later when he was 13, on a three-month tour of Europe with his mother and Aunt Frances, who took him to England, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. He was admitted to the University of Pennsylvania's College of Liberal Arts in 1901 at the age of 15, and resolved to learn everything there was to know about poetry, its languages and translation. He earned his bachelor’s degree at Hamilton College, his MA at Penn, and accepted a teaching Romance languages job at Indiana's Wabash College.

Later Life: In 1908, Pound come to Europe with just $80 in his pocket. Living for a short time in Italy and then settled in London, where he stayed off and on for 12 years. He befriended the influential writer and editor Ford Madox Ford, T. S. Eliot and William Butler Yeats. His friendship with W.B. Yeats in particular was a close one, and Pound eventually took a job as the writer's secretary.

In 1920, after 12 years in London, Pound left England for a new start in Paris. The Pounds lived in Paris from 1921 to 1924, then settled in Rapallo, Italy, where they lived through the end of World War II. During this period of voluntary exile, Pound became involved in Fascist politics, and did not return to the United States until 1945, when he was arrested on charges of treason for broadcasting Fascist propaganda by radio to the United States during the Second World War. In 1946, he was acquitted, but declared mentally ill and committed to St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C.

Major Writing: Ezra Pound was an important figure in the modernist movement of the 20th century. He wrote many books during his life. Here list of his major works:

Poetry:
  • A Draft of Cantos XXXI-XLI (1934)
  • A Draft of XXX Cantos (1930)
  • A Lume Spento (1908)
  • Cantos I-XVI (1925)
  • Cantos LII-LXXI (1940)
  • Cantos XVII-XXVII (1928)
  • Canzoni (1911)
  • Exultations (1909)
  • Homage to Sextus Propertius (1934)
  • Lustra and Other Poems (1917)
  • Patria Mia (1950)
  • Personae (1909)
  • Provenca (1910)
  • Quia Pauper Amavi (1919)
  • The Cantos (1972)
  • The Fifth Decade of Cantos (1937)
  • The Pisan Cantos (1948)
  • Umbra: Collected Poems (1920)
Prose:
  • ABC of Economics (1933)
  • Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony (1924)
  • Digest of the Analects (1937)
  • Gaudier Brzeska (1916)
  • Guide to Kulchur (1938)
  • How To Read (1931)
  • Imaginary Letters (1930)
  • Indiscretions (1923)
  • Instigations (1920)
  • Jefferson and/or Mussolini (1935)
  • Literary Essays (1954)
  • Make It New (1934)
  • Pavannes and Divisions (1918)
  • Polite Essays (1936)
  • Prolegomena: Volume I (1932)
  • Selected Prose: 1909-1965 (1973)
  • Social Credit and Impact (1935)
  • The ABC of Reading (1934)
  • The Spirit of Romance (1953)
  • What is Money For? (1939)
Anthology:
  • Cathay (1915)
  • The Classic Anthology Defined (1954)
  • The Great Digest, and the Unwobbling Point (1951)
  • The Translations of Ezra Pound (1953)
Death: Pound died on November 1, 1972, in Venice, Italy at the age of 87. Being cared for by Olga Rudge, his mistress over a span of 50 years and the mother of one of his two children.