Ezra Pound

Born

October 30, 1885

Died

November 1, 1972 (aged 87)

Known as

poet, literary critic, composer, translator, autobiographer, writer

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and The Cantos.

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