Ezra Pound

American poet and critic (1885–1972)

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Lived 1885–1972, aged 87United States

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1885–1972
Aged 87

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Updated 2026-05-29

Modernist poet who reshaped early 20th-century literature with The Cantos, then spent WWII backing Fascism in Italy—a towering literary figure whose legacy got complicated by his politics.

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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound 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.

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