Poet Ezra Pound, released in April from a mental institution, gives a Fascist-style salute on his arrival in Naples, Italy. He was accused of treason for broadcasts made in Italy during World War II ...

In the winter of 1949, a group of judges — including poets T.S. Eliot and Robert Lowell — met to decide the winner of the prestigious Bollingen Prize for the best book of poetry published in the ...

The critic Hugh Kenner once said, “A great poet is a poet who changes the art of poetry.” In English and in many other languages in the 20th century, Ezra Pound was such a poet. In the first volume of ...