The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound

These statements against complacency and convention reveal the man as
much as they do his literary practice. Everything about Pound was unorthodox.
Born in the western town of Hailey, Idaho, on 30 October 1885 – his father,
Homer Pound, worked as registrar for the US Federal Land Office, recording
claims and assaying the silver and lead brought to him for its purity – Pound
became part of a family with broad American roots. A memoir by Homer
Pound celebrates his father,USCongressman Thaddeus Pound fromWisconsin
whose public life would enter his grandson’s poetry. But US politics that saw
the Democrats replace the Republicans made Homer Pound’s job in Hailey
tenuous. With his wife Isabel’s happy approval – she hated life in the rugged
West – they left in 1887, first for New York and then, after securing a job at the
US Mint in Philadelphia in 1889, Pennsylvania.
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