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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was born on the 30th of October 1885 in a two-story clapboard house in Hailey, Idaho Territory. His father Homer worked as registrar of the United States General Land Office since 1883.
He attended Cheltenham Military Academy from 1897 until 1900 before enrolling at the University of Pennsylvania in 1901. He transferred to Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, graduated with a PhB in 1905, and returned to Penn to pursue a PhD thesis on jesters in Lope de Vega's plays.
Pound arrived in Gibraltar on the 23rd of March 1908 working as a guide for an American family while earning US$15 daily. By April he lived over a bakery near Venice's San Vio bridge before moving to London in August 1908 carrying 60 copies of his self-published collection A Lume Spento which contained 44 poems printed in July 1908.
In summer 1922 Pound met 26-year-old American violinist Olga Rudge at a salon hosted by Natalie Barney at her house on Rue Jacob near Boulevard Saint-Germain. They moved in different social circles: Rudge daughter of wealthy steel family lived on Right Bank socializing with aristocrats while Pound's friends were mostly impoverished writers on Left Bank.
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During World War II Pound recorded hundreds paid radio propaganda broadcasts fascist Italian government later German puppet state Salò Republic attacking United States government Franklin D Roosevelt Britain international finance arms industry Jews abettors prolongers war. After campaign fellow writers released from St Elizabeths 1958 returning Italy where posed press giving Fascist salute calling United States insane asylum remained until death 1972.