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    Ezra Weston Loomis Pound, born October 30 in Hailey, Idaho, son of Homer Loomis Pound ("Euripides Weight") and Isabel Weston Pound ("Hermione"); after eighteen months family moves to Pennsylvania.
    Family moves to Fernbrook Avenue, Wyncote, Philadelphia; they become members of the Calvary Presbyterian Church.
    Three months tour of Europe (London, Brussels, Cologne, Paris, the Alps, Venice, Granada, Tangiers, etc.) with his great-aunt Frances "Frank" Wessels Weston ("Heeb").
    Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Meets Hilda Doolittle, William Carlos Williams (then a medical student).
    Studies at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York. Ph. B. ().
    M.A., U of Pennsylvania.
    Reads a little Confucius, July. Instructor in Romance Languages at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, a small Presbyterian school,
    Resigns instructorship at Wabash College. A lume spento, Venice, July. Settles in London, September (?).
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    Long before Ezra Pound made a name for himself through his poetry or political viewpoints, he strolled the paths of College Hill. His association with his alma mater, like his life in general, was riddled with controversy. Pound, Class of , may rank just behind statesman Elihu Root, Class of , on the list of Hamilton’s most prominent alumni. Still, after his graduation Pound returned only twice to campus, and on one of those visits he got into a shouting match.

    Austin Briggs, Jr., the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English Literature emeritus and a noted James Joyce scholar, lists Pound among the greatest poets, as well as a respected translator and patron of such notables as Ernest Hemingway, Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot, who once declared that Pound “is more responsible for the 20th-century revolution in poetry than is any other individual.”* A major figure in the early modernist movement, Pound’s technical innovations, many of which departed greatly fro

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    BIOGRAPHIES, BIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNTS, AND MEMOIRS OF EZRA POUND

    1. Ackroyd, Peter. Ezra Pound and His World. London, Thames and Hudson,
    2. Auden. W. H. et al. Ezra Pound at Seventy. Norfolk, Conn., New Directions,
    3. Brody, Paul. Expatriate: A Biography of Ezra Pound. London, CreateSpace,
    4. Carpenter, Humphrey. A Serious Character: The Life of Ezra Pound. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company,
    5. Conover, Anne. Olga Rudge & Ezra Pound: "What Thou Lovest Well . . ." New Haven, Yale UP,
    6. Cornell, Julien.  The Trial of Ezra Pound: A Documented Account of the Treason Case bygd the Defendant's Lawyer.  New York, The John Day Company,
    7. Davie, Donald. Ezra Pound. Chicago, The U of Chicago P,
    8. Durant, Alan. Ezra Pound, Identity in Crisis: A Fundamental Reassessment of the Poet and His Work. Brighton, The Harvester Press,
    9. Echaurren, Pablo.  Vite di poeti: Campana, Majakovskij, Pound.  Torino, Bollati Boringhieri,
    10. Edwards, John Hamilton.  A Critical Biography of Ezra Pound: