Watch Voices Visions online: Episode 10 Ezra Pound

The complicated life and writings of the poet Ezra Pound are discussed in this volume of the Voices & Visions series. Born and educated in America, Pound lived most of his life in England. He is best known for his work The Cantos, much of which was written in an American mental hospital where he had been confined after being charged with treason for antiwar broadcasts he had made from Italy. Also explored are Pound's relationship with his wife and collaborator Dorothy Shakespear and his dedicated promotion of the work of other writers, including T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Ernest Hemingway. Scholar Hugh Kenner, critic Alfred Kazin, publisher James Laughlin, and Pound's daughter (whose mother was his lover, Olga Rudge) provide information, commentary, and reminiscences. Recordings of Pound and various actors reading excerpts from his works are also featured.

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