| Ezra Pound  AKA Ezra Weston Loomis Pound
Born: 30-Oct-1885
Birthplace: Hailey, ID
Died: 1-Nov-1972
Location of death: Venice, Italy
Cause of death: Illness
Remains: Buried, Cimitero di San Michele, Venice, Italy
Gender: Male
Religion: Other
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Poet Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Cantos Raised in Wyncote, PA. Pound was enamoured with fascism. Father: Homer Loomis Pound (assayer for U.S. Mint, b. 1858, d. 1942)
Mother: Isabel Weston (b. 1860, d. 1948)
Wife: Dorothy Shakespear (b. 1886, m. 20-Apr-1914, d. 8-Dec-1973)
Son: Omar Shakespear Pound (b. 10-Sep-1926)
Engagement: H. D. (poet, engaged 1907-08)
Girlfriend: Frances Josepha Gregg (1910-11)
Girlfriend: Olga Rudge (violinist, cohabited 12 years, d. 15-Mar-1996)
Daughter: Mary Rachewiltz (with Rudge, b. Jul-1925)
University: University of Pennsylvania
University: MA Romantic Literature, Hamilton College (1906)
Professor: Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana (1906)
Bollingen Prize in Poetry 1949 for Pisan Cantos
Stabbed Paris, France (1924)
Treason arrested Apr-1945, acquitted
Extradited from Italy to Washington, DC (18-Nov-1945)
Competency Hearing Washington, DC (13-Feb-1946)
Institutionalized St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, DC (13-Feb-1946 to 18-Apr-1958)
English Ancestry
Risk Factors: Yoga, Claustrophobia
Is the subject of books:
End to Torment: A Memoir of Ezra Pound, 1979, BY: Hilda Dolittle
Ezra Pound: A Bibliography, 1983, BY: Donald Clifford Gallup
Ezra Pound and the Erotic Medium, 1986, BY: Kevin Oderman
A Serious Character: The Life of Ezra Pound, 1988, BY: Humphrey Carpenter
Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism, 1991, BY: Tim Redman
Author of books:
A Lume Spento (1908, poetry)
Exultations and Personae (1909, poetry)
Provenca (1910, poetry)
Canzoni (1911, poetry)
Ripostes (1912, poetry)
Cathay (1915, poetry)
Lustra (1916, poetry)
Quia Pauper Amavi (1918, poetry)
Homage to Sextus Propertius (1919, poetry)
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920, poetry)
Pisan Cantos (1948, poetry)
Cantos (1970)
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