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Which languages did Ezra Pound study during his education?

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Pound, Ezra — Ezra Pound Ezra Pound, photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn, c. 1913.

During his formal education at the University of Pennsylvania and Hamilton College, Ezra Pound acquired an extensive knowledge of several languages. By the time he concluded his graduate studies in 1907, he had studied:

Latin1
Greek1
French1
Italian1
German1
Spanish1
Provençal1
Anglo-Saxon1

This linguistic background supported his later career as a poet and critic, and he subsequently served as a professor of Romance languages at Wabash College in 1907.1