An American poet and critic (1885 to 1972), born Ezra Weston Loomis Pound in Hailey, Idaho, and a major figure of early modernist poetry. In London around 1912 he organized and named the Imagist movement, urging a poetry built on precise, concrete images rather than ornamental abstraction, and went on to write Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920) and the long poem sequence The Cantos (circa 1915 to 1962). During the Second World War he recorded paid radio propaganda broadcasts for the Fascist Italian government; after the war the United States indicted him for treason, and, ruled mentally unfit to stand trial, he was confined for over twelve years at St. Elizabeths Hospital before returning to Italy, where he remained until his death in 1972. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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AwardFellowship of the Academy of American Poets, 1963. 1 Classification
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What was Imagism, the movement Ezra Pound helped launch?
A poetry of clarity, precision and economy of language, drawing on classical Chinese and Japanese verse.
Poets.org describes Imagism as a poetry movement that derived its technique from classical Chinese and Japanese poetry. It stressed clarity, precision and economy of language, and it gave up traditional rhyme and meter.
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Organized and named the Imagist movement in London around 1912, urging a poetry of precise, concrete images over ornamental abstraction.
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American poet and critic (1885-1972) ... Ezra Weston Loomis Pound
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(30 October 1885 - 1 November 1972) ... Pound remained in Italy until his death in 1972.
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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885-1 November 1972) 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.
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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885-1 November 1972) 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 (c. 1915-1962).
Award: Bollingen Prize
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885-1 November 1972) 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 (c. 1915-1962).
Award: Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885-1 November 1972) 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 (c. 1915-1962).
In Movement: Imagism, Poetry magazine, Ripostes, Imagism section
While in the British Museum tearoom one afternoon with Doolittle and Aldington, Pound edited one of Doolittle's poems and wrote 'H.D. Imagiste' underneath; he described this later as the founding of a movement in poetry, Imagisme.
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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885-1 November 1972) 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.
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The Cantos is a long modernist poem by Ezra Pound, written in 109 canonical sections in addition to a number of drafts and fragments added as a supplement at the request of the poem's American publisher, James Laughlin.
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