Male : Imagist Poet & Writer. Married Dorothy Shakespear in 1914. Noted for his translations of Provencal, Latin, Chinese, French & Italian poets. Supported Franco in Spanish Civil War. Lived in London 1908-20, Paris 1920-4 & Rapallo, Italy 1924-45. From 1946 to 1958 he was held on a treason charge in a mental asylum near Washington DC, for making radio broadcasts supporting Mussolini during the war. Founder, with Wyndham Lewis, of "Blast" in 1914

Nationality : American Place of Birth : Hailey, Idaho

Date of Birth : 1885 Date of Death : 1972 Age : 87

Education : Hamilton College, Clinton, NY & University of Pennsylvania

1908-1915
A Lume Spento (1908 Privately Printed) - 150 copies in wraps
A Quinzane for this Yule (1908 Privately Printed by Pollock & Co) - 100 copies in wraps
(1908 Elkin Mathews 1/6) - 100 copies in wraps
Personae (1909 Elkin Mathews 2/6) - 500 (1926 Boni & Liveright)
Exultations (1909 Elkin Mathews 2/6) - 350 1st issue. 150 2nd issue
Provenca : Poems selected from Personae, Exultations & Canzoniere
(1910 Small, Maynard : Boston)
Canzoni (1911 Elkin Mathews) - 250
Ripostes (1912 Stephen Swift)
(Trans) The Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti (1912 Small & Maynard)
Personae and Exultations of Ezra Pound (1913 Elkin Mathews 3/6) - c140
Canzoni & Ripostes of Ezra Pound whereto are Appended the Complete Poetical
Works of T E Hulme (1913 Elkin Mathews 3/6) - c140
(Ed) Des Imagistes : An Anthology (1914)
(Trans) Cathay (1915 Elkin Mathews 1/-) - 1000
(Ed) Catholic Anthology 1914-1915 (1915 Elkin Mathews 3/6) - 500. with 5
contributions by T S Eliot
(Ed) Poetical Works of Lionel Johnson (1915)

1916-1920
Gaudier-Brzeska : A Memoir (1916 John Lane)
Noh, or Accomplishment (1916 London) - with Ernest Fenellosa
(Trans) Certain Noble Plays of Japan (1916) - with Ernest Fenellosa
Lustra (1916 Elkin Mathews 5/-) - 200 numbered
Offered in 1999 for £845
(1916 EM. 2nd Impression 5/-) - 800
(1917 Knopf)
(Ed) Passages from the Letters of John Butler Yeats (1917)
(Trans) Dialogues of Fontenelle (1917)
Pavanes and Divisions (1918 Knopf)
Quia Pauper Amavi (1919 The Egoist)
The Fourth Canto (1919 Ovid Press)
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920 Ovid Press)
Instigations of Ezra Pound (1920 Boni & Liveright)
Umbra : The Early Poems (1920 Elkin Mathews 8/-) - 1000
+A De Luxe Edition of 100, Signed & Numbered (25/-) + c4 extra copies lettered A-D

1921-1930
Poems 1918-21 (1921 NY)
(Trans) The Natural Philosophy of Love by Remy de Gourmont (1922)
(Trans) The Call of the Road by Edouard Estaunie (1923)
A Draft of XVI Cantos (1925 Three Mountains Press)
(Translates) The Natural Philosophy of Love - by Remy de Gourmont
(1926 Casonova Society, London)
Anthei & the Treatise on Harmony (1927 Covici, Chicago)
A Draft of Cantos 17-27 (1928 Three Mountains Press)
(Trans) Ta Hio : The Great learning by Confucius (1928)
Selected Poems - with intro by T S Eliot (1928 Faber & Gwyer)
A Draft of XXX Cantos (1930 Hours Press, Paris) - 210 copies (1933 Farrar & Rinehart)
(1933 Faber)
Imaginery Letters (1930 Black Sun Press, Paris) - 375
Offered in 1998 for £280

1931-1935
How to Read (1931 Desmond Harmsworth, London)
(Ed) Profile : An Anthology (1932)
(Ed) Rime by Guido Cavalcanti (1932)
ABC of Economics (1933 Faber)
(Ed) Active Anthology (1933)
ABC of Reading (1934 Routledge)
Homage to Sextus Propertius (1934 Faber)
Make it New : Essays (1934 Faber) - only 1600 copies printed
Eleven New Cantos XXXI to XLI (1934 Farrar & Rinehart)
Draft of Cantos XXXI-XLI (1935 Faber)
Jefferson and / or Mussolini (1935 London)

1936-1950
Ta Hio : The Great Learning (1936 Stanley Nott, London)
(Ed) The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry - An Ars Poetica by Ernest Fenellosa
(1936)
The Fifth Decad of Cantos (1937 Faber) - only 1012 copies printed
Polite Essays (1937 Faber)
(Trans) Digest of the Analects by Confucius (1937)
Culture : The Intellectual Autobiography of a Poet (1938 New Directions)
Guide to Kulchur (1938 Faber)
Introductory Textbook (1939 Rapallo)
Cantos LII-LXXI (1940 Faber)
A Selection of Poems (1940 Faber 2/6)
(Trans) Odon Por : Italy's Policy of Social Economics 1939-1940 (1941)
(Trans) Ta S'en Dai Gaku, Studio Integrale by Confucius (1942) - with Alberto Luchini
(Translates) Confucius The Unwobbling Pivot & The Great Digest (1947 New Directions)
The Pisan Cantos (1949 Faber)
Money Pamphlets 1950-2 (Peter Russell)
Seventy Cantos (1950 Faber)
The Letters of Ezra Pound 1907-1941 (1950 Harcourt Brace) (1951 Faber) - edited by D D Paige

1951-1960
America, Roosevelt & the Causes of the Present War (1951 Peter Russell)
The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1951 New Directions)
(Trans) Confucian Analects (1951 NY)
Gold and Work (1951 Peter Russell, London)
Personae : Collected Shorter Poems (1952 London)
Guide to Kulchur (1952 NY)
Canti Pisani (1953 Guanda)
(Trans) The Classic Anthology Defined by Confucius (1954 Faber 30/-)
The Literary Essays of Ezra Pound (1954 New Directions) (1954 Faber) - intro by T S Eliot
(Trans) Women of Trachis by Sophokles (1956 London) (1957 New Directions)
Section : Rock Drill 85-95 de los Cantares (1956 US) (1957 Faber 12/6)
(Ed) De Moribus Brachmanorum, Liber Sancto Ambrosio Falso Adscriptus (1956)
(Trans) Enrico Pea : Moscardino (1956)
Diptych Rome-London (1957 New Directions) - 125 (of 200) signed
(Trans) Rimbaud : 15 Poems (1957)
Thrones 96-109 de los Cantares (1959 Milan) (1959 New Directions) (1960 Faber)
Impact : Essays on Ignorance and the Decline of American Civilization (1960 Regnery, Chicago)
Gaudier-Brzeska : A Memoir (1960 Marvell Press, London)

1961 Onwards
(Trans) Love Poems of Ancient Egypt (1962 New Directions) - with Noel Stock
E P to L U : Nine Letters (written to Louis Untermeyer) (1963 US)
(Ed) Confucius to Cummings : An Anthology of Poetry (1964) - with Marcella Spann
A Lume Spento (1965 NY)
The Cantos CX - CXVI (1967 Fuck You Press, NY) - 300
Canto CX (1967 Paris) - 224 numbered
Le Travail et L'Usure (1968 Switzerland) - 1500
The Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce (1967 New Directions)
Collected Shorter Poems (1968 Faber)
Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII (1968 New Directions) - 310 signed (1970 Faber)
(Trans) Enrico Pea's "Mascardino" (1971 Milan) - 1000
Four Poems of Departure, 1919 (1973 London) - 200
Selected Prose 1909-1965 (1973 Faber)
Selected Poems 1908-59 (1975 Faber)
Collected Early Poems (1977) - edited by M J King
An Autobiographical Outline (1980 Nadja, NY) - 200
Pound & Zukofsky : Selected Letters (1987 Faber)
Personae : Collected Shorter Poems (1990 New Directions NY) (
(2001 Faber £11.99)
Poems and Translations (2004 Library of America $45) - edited by Richard Sieburth

READING
Harold H Watts : Ezra Pound and the Cantos (1951 Routledge)
Hugh Kenner : The Poetry of Ezra Pound (1951 New Directions)
John Edwards : A Preliminary Checklist of the Writings of Ezra Pound (1953 US)
Ezra Pound at Seventy (1956 New Directions) - contributions from many poets
Donald Gallup : A Bibliography of Ezra Pound (1963) (1969 Hart-Davis)
P Hutchins : Ezra Pound's Kensington (1965)
Donald Davie : Ezra Pound - Poet as Sculptor (1965 Routledge)
Julian Cornell : The Trial of Ezra Pound (1967 Faber)
Noel Stock : The Life of Ezra Pound (1970 Pantheon) (1970 Routledge)
Hugh Kenner : The Pound Era (1971)
Ezra Pound : The London Years (1976) - 450
C David Heyman : Ezra Pound - The Last Rower (1976 USA) (1976 Faber £5.95)
Philip Furia : Pound's Cantos Declassified (1984 Penn State UP £16.10)
James Laughlin : Pound as Wuz - Recollections & Interpretations (1989 Peter Owen)
(Eds) Michael Alexander & James McGonigal : Sons of Ezra - British Poets & Ezra Pound
(1995 Rodolpi $23.50)