Homesick After His Own Kind -- Ezra Pound
One name turned up repeatedly in my explorations of Robert Frost and W.B. Yeats: Ezra Pound. Now, I'd heard the name before, but I knew next to nothing about him -- that he was a poet about sums it up-- despite my one college-level class in poetry. But here he was, popping up in the biographies of Yeats and Frost and in connection with other literary luminaries such as James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway, to name just two. In fact, Hemingway once wrote of Pound: "Any poet born in this century or in the last ten years of the preceding century who can honestly say that he has not been influenced by or learned greatly from the work of Ezra Pound deserves to be pitied rather than rebuked. It as if a prose writer born in that time should not have learned from or been influenced by James Joyce or that a traveller should pass through a great blizzard and not have felt its cold or a sandstorm and not have felt the sand and the wind." So I turned to my genealogy site to look him up, ...