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    Ezra Pound was an American expatriate poet, critic and intellectual who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in the early 20th century. He was born in Idaho in 1885 and spent much of his adult life in Europe. In London, the influence of Ford Madox Ford and T. E. Hulme encouraged Pound to simplify his poetic style and language. He published several influential works and married Dorothy Shakespear in 1914. Later in Paris, Pound continued writing poetry and criticism. After World War II, he faced treason charges in the U.S. for his political views during the war but was declared unfit for trial. He spent the rest of his life in Italy, where he died in 1972 at

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    Ezra Pound was an American expatriate poet, critic and intellectual who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in the early 20th century. He was born in Idaho in 1885 and spent much of his adult life in Europe. In London, the influence of Ford Madox Ford and T. E. Hulme encouraged Pound to simplify his poetic style and language. He published several influential works and married Dorothy Shakespear in 1914. Later in Paris, Pound continued writing poetry and criticism. After World War II, he faced treason charges in the U.S. for his political views during the war but was declared unfit for trial. He spent the rest of his life in Italy, where he died in 1972 at

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    Ezra Pound was an American expatriate poet, critic and intellectual who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in the early 20th century. He was born in Idaho in 1885 and spent much of his adult life in Europe. In London, the influence of Ford Madox Ford and T. E. Hulme encouraged Pound to simplify his poetic style and language. He published several influential works and married Dorothy Shakespear in 1914. Later in Paris, Pound continued writing poetry and criticism. After World War II, he faced treason charges in the U.S. for his political views during the war but was declared unfit for trial. He spent the rest of his life in Italy, where he died in 1972 at

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    Ezra Pound

    Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (October 30, 1885 November 1, 1972) was an American expatriate poet, critic and intellectual who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in the first half of the 20th century.

    Early life
    Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho Territory, to Homer Loomis and Isabel Weston Pound. When he was 18 months old, his family moved to the suburbs of Philadelphia He had been taken to Europe by relatives in 1898 and again traveled to Europe and Morocco in 1902. In 1908 he moved to Europe, settling in London after spending a brief stint working as a tour guide in Gibraltar, and several months in Venice, where he self-published A Lume Spento

    London - After moving to London, the influence of Ford Madox Ford and T. E. Hulme encouraged
    Pound to cast off overtly archaic poetic language and forms and begin to remake himself as a poet. In 1914, Pound married Dorothy Shakespear, an artist, and the daughter of Olivia Shakespear, a novelist and former lover of W. B. Yeats. Pound published Cathay, The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter and A Ballad of the Mulberry Road ,Homage to Sextus Propertius and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, The Cantos. Paris- While he was living in paris he wrote A Moveable Feast,The Cantos,. During this time, he also wrote critical prose and translations and composed two complete operas , After the war, Pound was brought back to the United States to face charges of treason. Pound commissioned Mullins to write a book about the history.He wrote the book, Secrets Of The Federal Reserve.Pound was also befriended there by Hugh Kenner, whose The Poetry of Ezra Pound (1951) was highly influential in causing a reassessment of Pound's poetry. Rudd Fleming, a professor at the University of Maryland, visited Pound often. They collaborated on a translation of Sophocles' Electra, which was published by Princeton University Press . Pound returned to Italy continuing work on The Cantos. In 1972, two days after his 87th birthday, Pound died in Venice, where he is buried.

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