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Ezra Pound

1885 - 1972

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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and The Cantos (c. 1915–1962). 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 to discover and shape the work of contemporaries such as H.D., Robert Frost, 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. Alfred Prufrock", and the serialization from 1918 of Joyce's Ulysses. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ezra Pound is the 131st most popular writer (up from 349th in 2019), the 115th most popular biography from United States (up from 325th in 2019) and the 15th 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 131 out of 7,302. Before him are Naguib Mahfouz, Jane Austen, Ammianus Marcellinus, Apuleius, Sully Prudhomme, and Jean de La Fontaine. After him are François Villon, Günter Grass, Haruki Murakami, Jean Cocteau, August Strindberg, and Charles Bukowski.

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Among people born in 1885, Ezra Pound ranks 4. Before him are Niels Bohr, D. H. Lawrence, and Princess Alice of Battenberg. After him are Faisal I of Iraq, Clementine Churchill, Alban Berg, Karen Blixen, György Lukács, Albert Kesselring, George S. Patton, and François Mauriac. Among people deceased in 1972, Ezra Pound ranks 6. Before him are Edward VIII, Harry S. Truman, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Ip Man, and Frederick IX of Denmark. After him are Yasunari Kawabata, M. C. Escher, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Neilia Hunter Biden, Kwame Nkrumah, and Paul-Henri Spaak.

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Among people born in United States, Ezra Pound ranks 115 out of 20,380. Before him are Vince McMahon (1945), Jim Morrison (1943), Calvin Klein (1942), John Stith Pemberton (1831), Edwin McMillan (1907), and Samuel Morse (1791). After him are Frank Sinatra (1915), Charles Manson (1934), Grace Hopper (1906), Herbert A. Simon (1916), Raymond Davis Jr. (1914), and Nicolas Cage (1964).

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Among writers born in United States, Ezra Pound ranks 15. Before him are George R. R. Martin (1948), Kurt Vonnegut (1922), Louisa May Alcott (1832), Ursula K. Le Guin (1929), Jack London (1876), and Stephen King (1947). After him are Dr. Seuss (1904), Henry David Thoreau (1817), H. P. Lovecraft (1890), William Faulkner (1897), John Steinbeck (1902), and David Woodard (1964).

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