Ezra Pound Ezra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho, in 1885. He went to the University of Pennsylvania for two years and then continued to get a degree in 1905 from Hamilton College. He taught for a few years at a college and traveled abroad in Europe as well. His biggest love was writing, however, and wrote many poems and other pieces in his lifetime. Pound spread the idea of imagism, in which he said that writers …showed first 75 words of 628 total…

…showed last 75 words of 628 total…just stating that even if you have no money and have to eat out in the sun, you could still be happy no matter what, and that fact is timeless. Ezra Pound was truly a great poet and an inspiration to many writers, and continues inspiring the movement of pens today. His ideas were critical in the advancement of modern day poetry, and without his influence writing as we know it would be very different.