Why is Ezra Pound regarded as a legendary literary figure?

 

            Ezra Pound was a master writer who mentored several great writers. T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Robert Frost, and Ernest Hemingway benefited from the literary wisdom of Ezra Pound.

            Ezra Pound was born in the US on 30th October, 1885 but spent his life in Europe. Pound played a leading role in the growth of imagism. Imagism was a literary movement inspired by classical Chinese and Japanese poetry.

            ‘Homage to Sextus Propertius’ published in the book ‘Quia Pauper Amavi’ was a brilliant poetic work of Ezra Pound. ‘Ripostes’, ‘Hugh Selwyn Mauberley’ and ‘The Cantos’ are the other great works of Ezra Pound.

            Two of his works, ‘Personae’ and ‘Exultations’, were published in 1909. Pound spent the last phase of his life in Italy.

            Ezra Pound passed away on November 1st, 1972 and buried in Isola di San Michele.