Pound, Ezra (Loomis)
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Pound, Ezra (Loomis) (
b Hailey, Idaho, 1885;
d Venice, 1972). Amer. poet, music critic, and composer. Went to It. 1908, Eng. 1908–20, Paris 1920–4, It. 1924–45. Settled in Rapallo and became champion of Vivaldi. Admiration for Mussolini led him to give many talks on Rome Radio during Second World War. He was arrested in 1944 and sent to a prison camp in Pisa. Sent to USA to be tried for treason, he was declared insane and committed to Amer. mental hospital, 1946–58. Returned to It. 1958. Principally known as poet, but wrote mus. criticism regularly in Eng. from 1908 (a collection, ed. R. M. Shafer, was pubd. 1977). Especially interested in mus. of medieval troubadours. Wrote 1-act opera
Le Testament de François Villon (1920–1) with help from George Antheil;
Hommage à Froissart for vn. (1926);
Cavalcanti (unfinished opera, 1920s).
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Fighting Words; Ezra Pound Was a Great Poet. Ted Pierce Thinks He Was an Even Greater Traitor.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/3/1997; ; 700+ words
; Pound. Ole Ez. In the fall of 1921...modernist masterpiece to "Ezra Pound, il miglior fabbro...and abetter of the enemy, Ezra Loomis Pound. You'll rarely find...in the room has to do with Ezra Pound. Some of the papers...
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Letters in Captivity, 1945-1946.(Review)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 9/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; Ezra Pound, Dorothy Pound. Letters in Captivity...his legal (but not biological) father, Ezra Loomis Pound. The period covered is the crucial...Hemingway as early as 1943: "Poor old Ezra! Treason is a little too serious and too...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/1/2000; 232 words
; Births: Laurence Stephen Lowry, primitive painter, 1887; John Michael Terence Wellesley Denison, actor, 1915. Deaths: Ezra Loomis Pound, poet, 1972. On this day: the first W.H. Smith bookstall opened at Euston Station, London, 1848.
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Saint Elsewhere; The Singular View From Our Saint Es
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/13/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...Howard Pavilion for the criminally insane, on the East Campus. Another famous inmate, from 1946 to 1958, was poet Ezra Loomis Pound. He was indicted for treason during World War II, ruled mentally unfit, and kept at Saint Es in what were said...
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Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
Magazine article from: Opera News; 8/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Steiner; Bonisolli, Brendel, Thu, Sinimberghi, Loomis, Amis El Hage, Frascati; RAI Orchestra and Chorus...Christiane Iven; Renata Scotto in La Traviata; the music of Ezra Pound; a Mozart reconstruction; tributes to Valletti and Fischer...
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Ezra Loomis Pound
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Ezra Loomis Pound Ezra Loomis Pound (1885-1972), American poet, translator, editor, critic, and esthetic propagandist whose life was surrounded by controversy, is best known for his Cantos (1925-1960), an epic version of the history...
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Pound, Ezra (Loomis)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Pound, Ezra (Loomis) ( b Hailey, Idaho, 1885; d Venice, 1972). Amer. poet, music critic, and composer. Went to It. 1908, Eng. 1908...
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Pound, Ezra Loomis
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Pound, Ezra Loomis (1885–1972) US poet and literary...founder of imagism and vorticism . In 1907, Pound emigrated to England. His early experimental...member of the avant-garde. In 1924, Pound moved to Italy, and during World War II...
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Pound, Ezra (Weston Loomis)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Pound, Ezra (Weston Loomis) (1885–1972), American...edited Des Imagistes: An Anthology . Pound also championed the Modernist work of...and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920). Pound was now increasingly turning away from...
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vorticism
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...time in harsh angular forms derived from machinery. David Bomberg, Ezra Loomis Pound , Henri Gaudier-Brzeska , and Jacob Epstein were also members of the movement. The term was coined by Ezra Pound .
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