Ezra Pound was born on 30 October 1885 in Hailey. An American poet and critic, Pound was a founder of the Imagist movement and a major force in modernist poetry, helping to bring the work of T. S. Eliot, James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway to the public. His own works include Hugh Selwyn Mauberley and the long, unfinished epic The Cantos, which he worked on for decades. He lived in London, Paris and Italy, where he embraced Mussolini's Fascism and made radio broadcasts against the United States and the Allies. He was arrested for treason in 1945, and was declared unfit for trial and held for twelve years in a mental hospital in Washington. He returned to Italy after his release.
Before and after
- 23 July 1885Death of Ulysses S. Grant
- 11 September 1885Birth of D. H. Lawrence
- 7 October 1885Birth of Niels Bohr
- 11 October 1885Birth of François Mauriac
- 30 October 1885Birth of Ezra Pound
- from 17 November 1885 to 19 November 1885Battle of Slivnitsa
- 21 November 1885Founding of Southampton F.C.
- 25 November 1885Establishment of Banff National Park
- 28 November 1885Serbo-Bulgarian War
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- 18 September 1851Founding of The New York Times
- 1857Rise of Symbolism
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- 1909Rise of Futurism
The era
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