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The father of the American modern poetry The life of Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (October 30, 1885 – November 1, 1972) was an American expatriate poet, critic and intellectual who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in the first half of the 20th century. He is generally considered the poet most responsible for defining and promoting a modernist aesthetic in poetry.The critic Hugh Kenner said of Pound upon meeting him: I suddenly knew that I was in the presence of the center of modernism. The life of Pound born in Hailey, Idaho grew up and was educated mainly in Pennsylvania. In 1901 at the age of 15, he entered the University of Pennsylvania two years later ,transferred to Hamilton College the University of Pennsylvania In 1908 he moved to Europe, living first in Venice but eventually settling in London. Pound self-published A Lume Spento, his first published collection of short poems, while living in Venice. In the years before the World War I, Pound was largely responsible for the appearance of Imagism, and coined the name of the movement Vorticism Ezra married the artist Dorothy Shakespear in 1914. In 1920, he moves to Paris and got acquainted with Gertrude stein and her circle of friends,then settled in Italy in 1924. During the second World War ,he leaned in the direction of Mussolini’s fascist totalitarianism having made anti-American radio broadcasts, he was arrested as a traitor in 1945 . sent to the US, where he was deemed mentally unfit to stand trial for treason. Pound was confined for 12 years in a hospital (actually prison) for the criminally insane in Washington. During this time he translated works of ancient Greek and ancient Chinese literature . While in prison ,he was awarded a prestigious poetry prize in 1949 for his last Cantos. In 1958 he returned to Italy,where he continued to write and make translations until he died in 1972. 庞德在伦敦期间与希尔达·杜利特尔（Hilda Doolittle），理查德·奥尔丁顿（Richard Aldi