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Also Known As Ezra Loomis Pound
Born October 30, 1885 • Idaho
Died November 1, 1972 (aged 87) • Venice • Italy
Awards And Honors Bollingen Prize (1948)
Notable Works “Guide to Kulchur” • “Homage to Sextus Propertius” • “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” • “Lustra” • “Personae” • “Ripostes” • “The Cantos” • “The Pisan Cantos” • “Trachinian Women”
Movement / Style Imagists • Vorticism

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