Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

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1、imagismIdeogrammicmethodpoettraitorpsychopathyEzraPound_1913………EarlylifePoundwasborninHailey,IdahoTerritory,toHomerLoomisandIsabelWestonPound.HisgrandfatherwastheLieutenantGovernorofWisconsinThaddeusC.Pound.[1]Whenhewas18monthsold,hisfamilymovedtothesuburbsofPhiladelphia.Hestudiedfortwo

2、yearsattheUniversityofPennsylvania,thentransferredtoHamiltonCollege,wherehereceivedhisPh.B.in1905.HethenreturnedtoPenn,completinganM.A.inRomancephilologyin1906.LondonThecoverofthe1915wartimenumberoftheVorticistmagazineBLAST.Pound'searlypoetrywasinspiredbyhisreadingofthepre-Raphaelitesan

3、dother19thcenturypoetsandmedievalRomanceliterature,aswellasmuchneo-Romanticandoccult/mysticalphilosophy.AftermovingtoLondon,theinfluenceofFordMadoxFordandT.E.HulmeencouragedPoundtocastoffovertlyarchaicpoeticlanguageandformsandbegintoremakehimselfasapoet.ParisIn1920,PoundmovedtoParis,whe

4、rehemovedamongacircleofartists,musicians,andwriterswhowererevolutionizingthewholeworldofmodernart.ItalyThisarticleneedsadditionalcitationsforverification.Pleasehelpimprovethisarticlebyaddingreliablereferences.Unsourcedmaterialmaybechallengedandremoved.(March2007)PoundremainedinItalyafte

5、rtheoutbreakofWorldWarII,whichbeganmorethantwoyearsbeforehisnativeUnitedStatesformallyenteredthewarinDecember1941.HebecamealeadingAxispropagandist.Healsocontinuedtobeinvolvedinscholarlypublishing,andhewrotemanynewspaperpieces.HedisapprovedofAmericaninvolvementinthewarandtriedtousehispol

6、iticalcontactsinWashingtonD.C.topreventit.HespokeonItalianradioandgaveaseriesoftalksonculturalmatters.Poundbelievedthateconomicswasthecoreissueathand.Specifically,histalkswerelargelyaboutusuryandthenotionthatrepresentativedemocracyhasbeenusurpedbybankers'infiltrationofgovernmentsthrough

7、theexistenceofcentralbanks,whichmadegovernmentspayinteresttoprivatebanksfortheuseoftheirownmoney.Hemaintainedthatthecentralbank'sabilitytocreatemoneyoutofthinairallowedbankingintereststobuyupAmericanandBritishmediaoutletstoswayopinioninfavorofthewarandthebanks.Poundwasnotthefir