What new can be said about Ezra Pound? That he was, in a manner of speaking, a Fortean.
Certainly, there is little reason to rehearse his biography, for my purposes, beyond drawing out those Fortean affinities. Acres of forest have fallen to print not only his voluminous work but the equally voluminous commentary—literary criticism and biographies, one of the latter three books, long, in the neighborhood of 2,000 pages.
So, thumbnailed: He was born 20 October 1885 in Hailey, Idaho but relocated to Pennsylvania before he had turned five. Whipsmart, he matriculated at the University of Pennsylvania when he was 15, but finished at Hamilton College, graduating in 1905. (Fortean Society Founder Alexander Woollcott graduated from the same school in 1909). Pound was deeply interested in literature and music. During these years, he traveled back and forth to Europe, soaking up its culture and preferring its arts to what he saw as America’s juvenile outpourings.
Certainly, there is little reason to rehearse his biography, for my purposes, beyond drawing out those Fortean affinities. Acres of forest have fallen to print not only his voluminous work but the equally voluminous commentary—literary criticism and biographies, one of the latter three books, long, in the neighborhood of 2,000 pages.
So, thumbnailed: He was born 20 October 1885 in Hailey, Idaho but relocated to Pennsylvania before he had turned five. Whipsmart, he matriculated at the University of Pennsylvania when he was 15, but finished at Hamilton College, graduating in 1905. (Fortean Society Founder Alexander Woollcott graduated from the same school in 1909). Pound was deeply interested in literature and music. During these years, he traveled back and forth to Europe, soaking up its culture and preferring its arts to what he saw as America’s juvenile outpourings.