庞德(1885～1972年)
Pound, Ezra (Loomis)
美国诗人和评论家。曾就读於汉米敦大学和宾夕法尼亚大学，学习了多种语言。1908年坐船到欧洲，在那里度过了大半生。他很快成为了意象主义的领导人，对英美诗歌具有显着的影响，并提携了很多作家，包括叶慈、乔伊斯、海明威、佛洛斯特、劳伦斯和艾略特，为艾略特编写的《荒原》十分精致。在第一次世界大战後，他出版了最重要的两首诗歌〈向塞克斯图斯.普洛佩提乌斯致敬〉（1919）和《休.赛尔温.毛伯利》（1920）。他还开始发表史诗式的长诗《诗章》，成为了他一生中最主要的诗歌创作。在德国经济萧条时期到来时，他开始对历史和经济产生浓厚的兴趣，并专注於提倡货币改革，表达了他对墨索里尼的崇拜。在第二次世界大战期间，他发表了支持法西斯主义的广播演说，1945年被指控叛国而被美军逮捕，最初被监禁在比萨。着名的长诗《比萨诗章》（1948，获博林根诗歌奖）就是在那里写成的。之後，他被关在美国的一家精神病院中，直到1958年返回义大利为止。《诗章》（1970）中收集了他的117首完成的诗章。
English version：
1885～1972年
Pound, Ezra (Loomis)
U.S. poet and critic. Born in Hailey, Idaho, Pound attended Hamilton College and the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied various languages. In 1908 he sailed for Europe, where he would spend most of his life. He soon became a leader of Imagism and a dominant influence in Anglo-American verse, helping promote such writers as William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Frost, D. H. Lawrence, and T. S. Eliot, whose Waste Land he brilliantly edited. After World War I he published two of his most important poems, “Homage to Sextus Propertius” (1919) and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920). He also began publishing The Cantos, an attempt at an epic sequence of poems, which would remain his major poetic occupation throughout his life. With the onset of the Great Depression, he increasingly pursued his interest in history and economics, became obsessed with monetary reform, and declared his admiration for Benito Mussolini. In World War II he made pro-Fascist radio broadcasts; detained by U.S. forces for treason in 1945, he was initially held at Pisa; The Pisan Cantos (1948, Bollingen Prize), written there, are notably moving. He was subsequently held in an American mental hospital until 1958, when he returned to Italy. The Cantos (1970) collects his 117 completed cantos.