Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound photographed in 1913 bi Alvin Langdon Coburn

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) wis an expatriate American poet an creetic, an a major figur in the early modrenist muivement. His contreibution tae poetry began wi his development o Imagism, a muivement derived frae clessical Cheenese an Japanese poetry, stressin clarity, preceesion an economy o leid. His best-kent wirks include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920) an the unfinished 120-section epic, The Cantos (1917–69).