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Ezra Pound (1885-1972) Ezra Pound se promenant dans Paris (1965) Ezra Pound Reading Canto LXXXI Poet Ezra Pound was born on October 30, 1885, in Hailey, Idaho. He studied literature and languages in college and in 1908 left for Europe, where he published several successful books of poetry. Pound advanced a "modern" movement in English and American literature. His pro-Fascist broadcasts in Italy during World War II led to his arrest and confinement until 1958.