Pound, Ezra Weston Loomis
Pound, Ezra Weston Loomis ( 1885 – 1972 ),American poet born in Idaho, of Quaker ancestry; he studied at the University of Pennsylvania, where he met Hilda Doolittle . He taught briefly in Indiana, but was asked to resign, and in 1908 came to Europe and published his first volume of poems, A Lume Spento ( 1908 ), at his own expense in Italy; he then moved to London, where he lectured for a time in medieval Romance literature at the Regent Street Polytechnic and soon became prominent in literary circles. He published several other volumes of verse, including Personae ( 1909 ), Canzoni ( 1911 ), Ripostes ( 1912 ), and Lustra ( 1916 ). Together with F. S. Flint , R. Aldington , and Hilda Doolittle he founded the Imagist school of poets, advocating the use of free rhythms, concreteness, and concision of language and imagery; in 1914 he edited Des Imagistes: An Anthology. ...
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