1885 - 1972
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 4,165,303 page views. His biography is available in 84 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 81 in 2019). Ezra Pound is the 320th most popular writer (down from 311th in 2019), the 300th most popular biography from United States (down from 278th in 2019) and the 30th most popular American Writer.
Ezra pound is most famous for his poem "In a Station of the Metro"
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Among writers, Ezra Pound ranks 320 out of 5,755. Before him are Paul Celan, Callimachus, Gregory of Tours, Karl May, François Mauriac, and Jack Kerouac. After him are Carlos Castaneda, Georges Bataille, Arthur Schnitzler, Einhard, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Graham Greene.
1920 - 1970
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 314
310 BC - 240 BC
HPI: 69.42
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538 - 593
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 316
1842 - 1912
HPI: 69.38
Rank: 317
1885 - 1970
HPI: 69.34
Rank: 318
1922 - 1969
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 319
1885 - 1972
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 320
1925 - 1998
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 321
1897 - 1962
HPI: 69.26
Rank: 322
1862 - 1931
HPI: 69.25
Rank: 323
770 - 840
HPI: 69.25
Rank: 324
60 BC - 7 BC
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 325
1904 - 1991
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 326
Among people born in 1885, Ezra Pound ranks 9. Before him are György Lukács, Albert Kesselring, Hermann Hoth, Alban Berg, Julius Streicher, and François Mauriac. After him are Faisal I of Iraq, George S. Patton, Robert Delaunay, Karen Horney, Princess Alice of Battenberg, and Chester W. Nimitz. Among people deceased in 1972, Ezra Pound ranks 9. Before him are Edward VIII, M. C. Escher, Yasunari Kawabata, Frederick IX of Denmark, J. Edgar Hoover, and Maria Goeppert Mayer. After him are Igor Sikorsky, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Franz Halder, Paul Hausser, Kwame Nkrumah, and Erhard Milch.
1885 - 1971
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 3
1885 - 1960
HPI: 70.50
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1885 - 1971
HPI: 70.27
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1885 - 1935
HPI: 70.23
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1885 - 1946
HPI: 69.95
Rank: 7
1885 - 1970
HPI: 69.34
Rank: 8
1885 - 1972
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 9
1885 - 1933
HPI: 69.27
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1885 - 1945
HPI: 69.00
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1885 - 1941
HPI: 68.92
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1885 - 1952
HPI: 68.66
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1885 - 1969
HPI: 68.22
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1885 - 1966
HPI: 68.20
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1894 - 1972
HPI: 75.18
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1898 - 1972
HPI: 74.69
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1899 - 1972
HPI: 72.38
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1899 - 1972
HPI: 72.23
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1895 - 1972
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 7
1906 - 1972
HPI: 70.09
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1885 - 1972
HPI: 69.29
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1889 - 1972
HPI: 68.60
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1894 - 1972
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1884 - 1972
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1880 - 1972
HPI: 67.88
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1909 - 1972
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 14
1892 - 1972
HPI: 66.51
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Among people born in United States, Ezra Pound ranks 300 out of 18,182. Before him are Edward Hopper (1882), Georgia O'Keeffe (1887), Eli Wallach (1915), Billie Holiday (1915), Lawrence Kohlberg (1927), and Jack Kerouac (1922). After him are Audie Murphy (1925), Martin Sheen (1940), Fred Astaire (1899), Grover Cleveland (1837), Chuck Berry (1926), and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1947).
1882 - 1967
HPI: 69.39
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1887 - 1986
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1915 - 2014
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1915 - 1959
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1927 - 1987
HPI: 69.30
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1922 - 1969
HPI: 69.29
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1885 - 1972
HPI: 69.29
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1925 - 1971
HPI: 69.28
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1940 - Present
HPI: 69.27
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1899 - 1987
HPI: 69.25
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1837 - 1908
HPI: 69.25
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1926 - 2017
HPI: 69.22
Rank: 305
1947 - Present
HPI: 69.18
Rank: 306
Among writers born in United States, Ezra Pound ranks 30. Before him are Walt Whitman (1819), Henry Miller (1891), Margaret Mitchell (1900), Mario Puzo (1920), Raymond Chandler (1888), and Jack Kerouac (1922). After him are Arthur Miller (1915), Louise Glück (1943), Napoleon Hill (1883), Philip Roth (1933), O. Henry (1862), and James Fenimore Cooper (1789).
1819 - 1892
HPI: 71.08
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1891 - 1980
HPI: 70.60
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1900 - 1949
HPI: 69.93
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1920 - 1999
HPI: 69.50
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1888 - 1959
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 28
1922 - 1969
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 29
1885 - 1972
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 30
1915 - 2005
HPI: 69.18
Rank: 31
1943 - Present
HPI: 69.11
Rank: 32
1883 - 1970
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 33
1933 - 2018
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 34
1862 - 1910
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 35
1789 - 1851
HPI: 68.75
Rank: 36