| Ezra Pound  AKA Ezra Weston Loomis Pound
Born: 30-Oct-1885
Birthplace: Hailey, ID
Died: 1-Nov-1972
Location of death: Venice, Italy
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Cimitero di San Michele, Venice, Italy
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Poet Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Cantos Raised in Wyncote, PA. Pound was enamoured with fascism. Father: (assayer for U.S. Mint)
Wife: Dorothy Shakespear (m. 1914)
Son: Omar Shakespear
Daughter: Mary Rachewiltz
Girlfriend: Olga Rudge (cohabited 12 years)
Girlfriend: H. D. (poet, engaged 1907-08)
University: University of Pennsylvania
University: MA Romantic Literature, Hamilton College (1906)
Professor: Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana (1906)
Bollingen Prize in Poetry 1949 for Pisan Cantos
Treason 1945, extradited to United States, acquitted
Extradited
Competency Hearing Washington, DC (13-Feb-1946)
Institutionalized St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, DC (13-Feb-1946)
Is the subject of books:
End to Torment: A Memoir of Ezra Pound, 1979, BY: Hilda Dolittle
Ezra Pound: A Bibliography, 1983, BY: Donald Clifford Gallup
Ezra Pound and the Erotic Medium, 1986, BY: Kevin Oderman
A Serious Character: The Life of Ezra Pound, 1988, BY: Humphrey Carpenter
Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism, 1991, BY: Tim Redman
Author of books:
A Lume Spento (1908, poetry)
Exultations and Personae (1909, poetry)
Provenca (1910, poetry)
Canzoni (1911, poetry)
Ripostes (1912, poetry)
Cathay (1915, poetry)
Lustra (1916, poetry)
Quia Pauper Amavi (1918, poetry)
Homage to Sextus Propertius (1919, poetry)
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920, poetry)
Pisan Cantos (1948, poetry)
Cantos (1970)
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