Ezra Pound

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Ezra Pound was an American poet and critic who became a central figure in early 20th-century modernist literature, known for his innovative style, promotion of fellow writers, and controversial political views.

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instanceOf essayist
human
literary critic
modernist writer
poet
translator
arrestedBy United States Army
awardReceived Bollingen Prize for Poetry
charge treason against the United States
child Omar Pound
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1885-10-30
dateOfDeath 1972-11-01
detainedAt Disciplinary Training Center, Pisa
St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D.C.
educatedAt Hamilton College
University of Pennsylvania
familyName Pound
fieldOfWork literary criticism
poetry
translation
fullName Ezra Weston Loomis Pound
genre essay
literary criticism
poetry
givenName Ezra
influenced Ernest Hemingway
H.D.
James Joyce
T. S. Eliot
William Carlos Williams
influencedBy Dante Alighieri
Gustave Flaubert
William Butler Yeats
languageOfWorkOrName English
mannerOfDeath natural causes
movement Imagism
Modernism
Vorticism
notableIdea Make It New
notableWork ABC of Reading
Guide to Kulchur
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
Personae
Ripostes
The Cantos
occupation critic
editor
poet
translator
partner Olga Rudge
period 20th century
placeOfBirth Hailey, Idaho, United States
placeOfDeath Venice, Italy
politicalAlignment fascism
religion raised Presbyterian
residence London, United Kingdom
Paris, France
Rapallo, Italy
spouse Dorothy Shakespear
supported Benito Mussolini
wroteTextOn economics
literary theory
politics


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