Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

Wordsmith and gadfly of American letters. Few writers in history have so dominated the literary scene as an American in Europe, he promoted T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Robert Frost, and profoundly influenced William Butler Yeats and Earnest Hemingway. Unfortunatly, he made Jew-baiting, pro-Fascist radio broadcasts from Italy in World War II and spent twelve years in a mental hospital.