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How did Ezra Pound become involved with W.B. Yeatsâs literary circle?
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Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound, photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn, c. 1913.
Ezra Pound became involved with William Butler Yeatsâs literary circle after moving to London in September 1908. Following his arrival in the city, Pound was befriended by the writer and editor Ford Madox Ford, who published Pound's work in his English Review. Through these connections, Pound entered Yeatsâs circle and joined the "school of images," a modern group presided over by the philosopher T.E. Hulme.1