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This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
Ezra Pound
Born: October 30, 1885
Died: November 1, 1972 (aged 87)
Bio: Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic who was a major figure in the early modernist movement.
Known for:
- The Cantos (1954)
- ABC of Reading (1934)
- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
- Literary Essays of Ezra Pound (1935)
- Make it New (1934)
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