Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem, The Cantos (c. 1917–1962).Pound's contribution to poetry began in the early 20th century with his role in developing Imagism, a movement stressing precision and economy of language. Working in London as foreign editor of several American literary magazines, he helped discover and shape the work of contemporaries such as T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, and James Joyce. He was responsible for the 1914 serialization of Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the 1915 publication of Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ezra Pound has received more than 3,207,556 page views. His biography is available in 81 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Ezra Pound is the 311th most popular writer (down from 246th in 2019), the 278th most popular biography from United States (down from 203rd in 2019) and the 29th most popular American Writer.

Ezra pound is most famous for his poem "In a Station of the Metro"