Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound was a seminal American poet and critic; his most famous work is the long, unfinished poem The Cantos. As an expatriate living in London, he was responsible for advancing the careers of important modernist writers like T.S. Eliot and James Joyce at the start of their careers. He later moved to Italy and became a supporter of Mussolini and Hitler. After World War II, he returned to the US, where he was considered a traitor and spent much of his life in a mental institution.


– Ezra Pound