Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound is known for standing up to the government in opposition to WWI. He also was influential in imagism; imagism is the movement in the early 20th-century, English and American poetry that sought clarity of expression through the use of precise images. and revolutionizing the poet’s position in politics. Pound was most famous for his book, The Cantos, because of his feelings towards the government. From 1915 until his death in 1972 Ezra Pound was stirring the pot with his powerful literature and opinions (Beasley). Ezra Pound revolutionized poetry by defying what the government did not allow in any form of literature, which was speaking one’s mind.
Ezra was born in Hailey, Idaho, but was mainly raised and went to school in Pennsylvania. In 1908 at twenty-three years of age he set sail to Europe spending several months in Venice and finally settling in London, where he met and befriended his favorite writer W.B. Yeats. In 1908 through 1911, they published six collections of free-verse Provencal Italian Poetry. One year later Ezra Influenced writers Ford Madox Ford, and. E. Hulme to help him modernize his style in poetry and they soon launched the Imagist movement, advocating
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