- Ezra Pound was born on October 30, 1885 in Hailey, Idaho.
- He believed that poetry is the highest of arts.
- Ezra Pound was a great admirer of the poet William Butler Yeats.
- Ezra Pound became known for his role in developing Imagism.
- Ezra Pound was a noted translator of Asian literature.
- Ezra Pound is mainly responsible for bringing Vivaldi’s music back into popularity.
- Ezra Pound made anti-American radio broadcasts during World War II.
- Pound embraced Benito Mussolini's fascism, and expressed support for Adolf Hitler.
- Pound was arrested as a traitor in 1945.
- Pound's major work was the Cantos.
- He died in November 1, 1972 in Venice.
EZRA POUND QUOTES
- Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
- Nothing written for pay is worth printing. ONLY what has been written AGAINST the market.
- Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
- The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
- Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts.
- Poe had a brother, William, and a sister, Rosalie.
- Edgar Allan Poe married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year-old cousin, who died at an early age.
- His publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a Bostonian".
- Edgar Allan Poe attended the University of Virginia.
- In January 1845 Allan Poe published his poem "The Raven" to instant success.
- The Baltimore Ravens football team is named after Poe's poem The Raven, which he wrote in Baltimore.
- Poe attempted suicide in 1848
- Poe served two years in the army.
- On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore.
- Edgar Allan Poe was buried in an unmarked grave.
- The cause of his death has been variously attributed to Brain congestion, alcohol, cholera, heart disease, drugs, tuberculosis, rabies, suicide, and other agents.
- Every year since 1949, an anonymous fan known as the "Poe Toaster" has visited Poe's grave on the night of his birthday and has left a partially filled bottle of cognac and 3 roses.
