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Why did Ezra Pound move from Paris to Rapallo in 1924?
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Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound, photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn, c. 1913.
In 1924, Ezra Pound moved from Paris to Rapallo, Italy, simply because he had grown tired of living in Paris. He remained in Rapallo for the next 20 years, where he continued his work on his long poem, The Cantos, and became increasingly involved in music, economics, and politics.1