Ezra Pound and his world
by Peter Ackroyd
Review:
This book is filled with 111 illustrations, that introduce us to Ezra Pound from birth to death. He met and greatly influenced many of the most important English speaking writers of his age, including Yeats, Eliot, James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway. Pound was not only a writer, but an artist who defined Imagism and Vorticism. His attachment to Social Credit economics led him in the direction of Fascism, which eventually led to his imprisonment and eventually a mental hospital. Pound 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 will forever be credited as a poetic genius, who renewed poetic form and language. Overall, he is considered a major influence of twentieth-century literature.
