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Ezra Pound
1885–1972
A driving force behind literary modernism, this American poet helped shape the careers of writers like T. S. Eliot and James Joyce while building his own ambitious body of work. His influence on 20th-century poetry is enormous, even as his political extremism and wartime broadcasts remain deeply controversial.
9 Audiobooks
Exultations
by Ezra Pound
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
by Ezra Pound
Cathay
by Ezra Pound, Bai Li
Poems 1918-21, Including Three Portraits and Four Cantos
by Ezra Pound
Lustra of Ezra Pound
by Ezra Pound, Bai Li
Personae
by Ezra Pound
Canzoni & Ripostes Whereto are appended the Complete Poetical Works of T.E. Hulme
by Ezra Pound, T. E. (Thomas Ernest) Hulme
About the author
Born in Hailey, Idaho, in 1885, Ezra Pound grew up near Philadelphia and studied at the University of Pennsylvania and Hamilton College. After a brief period teaching in Indiana, he moved to Europe, where he became a central figure in the rise of modernist literature.
Pound was not only a poet but also a powerful editor, critic, and champion of other writers. He helped promote major literary figures including T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, and H.D., and his own books—especially The Cantos—became some of the best-known and most challenging works of modern poetry.
His legacy is inseparable from serious moral and political controversy. During World War II he made radio broadcasts from Italy in support of fascism, and after the war he was held by U.S. forces and later confined at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. He returned to Italy after his release and died in Venice in 1972.