Who is Ezra Pound?
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was born on 30 October 1885 in Hailey, Idaho, United States. Better known for being one of the driving forces behind several groups of the Modernist movement, Ezra Pound had a notable influence on the arts since early on in his life. While still in University, he befriended poets Hilda Doolittle and William Carlos Williams, and shortly after graduation, he became head teacher at the prestigious Wabash College, in Indiana. Ezra Pound set sail for Europe in 1908, stopping by Venice briefly before settling in London, where he was well received by the local literary movement. He soon befriended W. B. Yeats, his literary hero, and even worked for him as a typist on and off. Together, they translated Japanese plays and worked on rough versions of ancient Chinese poetry. Influenced by other figures of the time, Ezra Pound started the Imagism movement, which rejected the popular forms of Romantic poetry and favored simple, clear language. Many famous writers of the tim
