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Ezra Pound: Poems Lesson Plan

About the Author

Ezra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho in 1885, the only child of Homer Loomis Pound and Isabel Weston. When he was eighteen months old, his mother took him to live back east, and his father soon followed. They settled in Pennsylvania, which is where Pound grew up.

During his childhood, Pound attended a number of different schools, ranging from a Quaker-run institution to a military academy. He knew from an early age that he wanted to be a poet. On November 7th, 1896, Pound published his first piece: A limerick he had written about William Jennings Bryan, who had just recently lost a presidential election, appeared in the Jenkintown Times-Chronicle.

Pound took his first trip overseas at...

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