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1、A“Mad”PoetwithHighLiteraryTalentsEzraWestonLoomisPound(1885-1972),aleadingspokesmanofthe"ImagistMovement,"wasoneofthemostimportantpoetsinhistime.HeexertedaprofoundinfluenceonthegenerationoftheBritishandAmericanwriterswholaunchedmodernliteratureafterth
2、eFirstWorldWar,anddecisivelyaffectedthecourseofthetwentieth-centuryAmericanliterature.WorkinginLondonintheearly20thcenturyasforeigneditorofseveralAmericanliterarymagazines,PoundhelpedtodiscoverandshapetheworkofcontemporariessuchasT.S.Eliot,JamesJoyce,
3、RobertFrost,andErnestHemingway.Poundwasresponsibleforthepublicationin1915ofEliot's"TheLoveSongofJ.AlfredPrufrock",andfortheserializationfrom1918ofJoyce'sUlysses.Hemingwaywrotein1925:"Hedefends[hisfriends]whentheyareattacked,hegetsthemintomagazinesando
4、utofjail.Heloansthemmoney....Hewritesarticlesaboutthem.Heintroducesthemtowealthywomen.Hegetspublisherstotaketheirbooks.Hesitsupallnightwiththemwhentheyclaimtobedying...headvancesthemhospitalexpensesanddissuadesthemfromsuicide."Page7of7DuringtheFirstWo
5、rldWar,helostfaithinEngland,blamingusuryandinternationalcapitalismforthewar.HemovedtoItalyin1924wherethroughoutthe1930sand1940s,tohisfriends'dismay,heembracedBenitoMussolini'sfascism,expressedsupportforAdolfHitler,andwroteforpublicationsownedbytheBrit
6、ishfascistOswaldMosley.AsaresultofwhichhewasarrestedfortreasonbyAmericanforcesinItalyin1945andlaterhewasincarceratedinSt.ElizabethspsychiatrichospitalinWashington,D.C.,forover12years.HewasreleasedfromSt.Elizabethsin1958,thankstoaprotractedcampaignbyhi
7、sfellowwriters,andreturnedtoliveinItalyuntilhisdeath.WhileincustodyinItalyhehadbegunworkonsectionsofTheCantosthatbecameknownasThePisanCantos(1948),forwhichhewasawardedtheBollingenPrizein1949bytheLibraryofCongress.Thehonortriggeredenormouscontroversy,m
8、ostlybecauseofhisanti-semitism,andinpartbecauseitraisedliteraryquestionsaboutwhetherasupposedly"mad"poetwhoheldsuchcontentiousviewscouldproduceworkofanyvalue.Hispoliticalviewsensurethathisworkremainscontroversial;in1933Timemagazinecalledhim"ac
