EZRA POUND

FAMOUS AS PoetNATIONALITY American BORN ON 30 October 1885 ZODIAC SIGN Scorpio Scorpio MenBORN IN Hailey, Idaho TerritoryDIED ON 01 November 1972PLACE OF DEATH VeniceFATHER Homer Loomis PoundMOTHER Isabel WestonSPOUSE: Dorothy ShakespearCHILDREN Omar Pound, MaryEDUCATION University of Pennsylvania Hamilton CollegeAWARDS: Bollingen Prize

BIOGRAPHY

Ezra Pound Childhood & Early Life

Education

Later Life

Meeting Dorothy Shakespear

First World War

Personal Life

Death

EZRA POUND TIMELINE

1885: Ezra Weston Loomis Pound, born October 30.

1889: Family moved to 166 Fernbrook Avenue, Wyncote, Philadelphia.

1896:His first work got published in the Jenkintown Times

1901:Got admitted in the University of Pennsylvania's College of Liberal Arts.

1902:Went on another European tour.

1906:Obtained a degree of MA.

1907:He got a job as a teacher of Romance languages at Wabash College.

1908:He moved back to Europe.

1909:Imparted lectures on "The Development of Literature in Southern Europe".

1909:“Personae” got published by Mathews.

1910:His first book of literary criticism “The Spirit of Romance” was published.

1911:He moved to London where he was appointed by the New age.

1914:Married Dorothy Shakespear.

1917:“Canto I” was published in “Poetry’.

1921:Pound moved to Paris.

1921:His “Poems 1918–1921” was published.

1925:His daughter Mary was born.

1926:His son, Omar was born.

1927:He established “The Exile”.

1939:Pound began a furious letter-writing campaign to the politicians.

1943:He was accused in absentia for treason.

1945:Got arrested in April.

1958:Pound was released.

1972:Pound died of intestinal blockage, aged 87.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

-Ezra Pound