Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound, (1885-1972). US poet and critic. From 1908 he lived in Britain, where he achieved fame with volumes like Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920). He also encouraged other writers who were then virtually unknown, including D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce, and helped T. S. Eliot to revise The Waste Land. During World War II Pound was living in Italy and supported the Fascists by means of a series of radio broadcasts, which led to his arrest in 1945. Declared mentally, unfit’ to stand trial, he spent 12 years in a US hospital, returning to Italy in 1958. His major work is his Cantos (published in sections, 1928-70).
