Ezra Pound: Poet, Volume I: The Young Genius 1885-1920

This first volume of what will be a full-scale biography presents Ezra Pound as a very determined and energetic young genius—at 15 he told his father "I want to write before I die the greatest poems that have ever been written"—setting out to make his way both as a poet and as a force for civilization in England and America in the years before, during and just after World War I.
In this lively narrative A. David Moody weaves a story of Pound's early life and loves, his education in Americ…