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Pound's literary masterpiece is now published as a Faber Poetry typographic paperback edition.

About the Author

Ezra Pound was born in 1885 in Hailey, Idaho. He came toEurope in 1898 and settled in London, where he was to meetYeats, Eliot, Ford, Hulme and Gaudier-Brzeska. In 1920 hemoved to Paris, and later to Rapallo. His acquaintances bynow included Joyce, Hemingway, Brancusi, Picabia,Cocteau, Antheil and C. H. Douglas. During the SecondWorld War he broadcast over Rome Radio - for which,eventually, he was tried for treason in Washington. He wascommitted to a hospital for the insane, where he was heldfor thirteen years. He was released in 1958 and returned toItaly, dying in Venice in 1972.

Reviews

''The best of Pound's writing - and it is in the Cantos - will last as long as there is any literature.'' -  Ernest Hemingway