Ezra Pound was born on October 30, 1885 in the small mining town of Hailey, Idaho . He had an average middle-class childhood in Wyncote, Philadelphia , where his father held the position of assistant assayer for the United States Mint . Pound left high school, and attended the University of Pennsylvania , where he befriended another notable poet of the twentieth century, William Carlos Williams , who was studying medicine at the time. everything2.org
Ezra Loomis Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho in 1885 but spent his formative years in Wyancote, Pennsylvania, where his father was an assayer to the United States Mint. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania for two years then transferred to Hamilto www.internal.org/list_poems.phtml?authorID=1
Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972) Ezra Pound is generally considered the poet most responsible for defining and promoting a modernist aesthetic in poetry. en.thinkexist.com/birthday/November_1/
From 1945 through 1958 America's iconoclastic poet--the flamboyant Ezra Pound , one of the most influential individuals of his generation--was held in a Washington, D.C. mental institution, accused of treason. Pound had merely done what he had always don www.gnosticliberationfront.com/what_did_ezra_pound_really...