The Oxford Companion to English Literature | 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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