“Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.”
About Ezra Pound
30 October 1885–1 November 1972
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was born on 30 October 1885 in Hailey, in the Idaho Territory of the United States, and died on 1 November 1972 in Venice, Italy. Few writers altered the course of twentieth-century poetry as decisively as he did, and few have left behind a legacy so divided between artistic admiration and…