Ezra Pound

1885 - 1972 *

influential 20th century American poet and critic

American poet and critic, often called "the poet's poet" because his profound influence on 20th century writing in English. Pound believed that poetry is the highest of arts. He challenged many of the common views of his time and spent 12 years in an American mental hospital. Pound major work was the Cantos, which was published in ten sections between 1925 and 1969, and then as a one-volume collected edition, THE CANTOS OF EZRA POUND I-CXVII (1970).

Nancy where art thou?
Whither go all the vair and the cisclations
and the wave pattern runs in the stone
on the high parapet... [read entire biography]

          Source: Petri Liukkonen

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