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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound ( 30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972 ) was an American expatriate poet, critic and a major figure of the early modernist movement.
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The Federal style house, completed in 1809, was built for Ezra Weston II ( 1772 – 1842 ) and his wife, Jerusha Bradford Weston ( 1770 – 1833 ).
The Weston firm was established by Ezra Weston I ( 1743 – 1822 ) who began building small sloops and schooners on Powder Point in Duxbury in 1764.
After his death, the nickname passed to his son Ezra II who greatly expanded the firms activities, built up a fleet of large sailing vessels, and made the Weston name known across the Atlantic.
The firm experienced its heyday in the 1820s and 1830s during which Ezra Weston II presided as sole owner.
Although Ezra Weston II built many schooners for fishing and the coastal trade, the majority of his vessels were large brigs and ships which traded around the world.
From the King Caesar House, Ezra Weston II directed the affairs of his fleet and presided over a ten acre shipyard, a farm, a ropewalk, a sailcloth mill, and a large work force of sailors, carpenters and laborers.
After the death of Ezra Weston II in 1842, his three sons inherited the firm and continued to operate it until 1857.
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" Ezra Loomis Pound: The Seafarer.
* Ezra Loomis Pound, American Modernist poet
Ezra and Pound
Paris at this time hosted many expatriate writers: Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, Ernest Hemingway ; and artist Pablo Picasso.
* 1958 – A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound be released from an insane asylum.
Contributors have included Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats, William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes and Carl Sandburg, among others.
** The Cantos by Ezra Pound ( composed 1915-1969 )
* 1949 – Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
* Ezra Pound used it as metaphor in his poem " Portrait d ' une femme ":
Modernists explicitly of ' the right ' include Salvador Dalí, Wyndham Lewis, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, the Dutch author Menno ter Braak and others.
While modernist poetry in English is often viewed as an American phenomenon, with leading exponents including Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, H. D., and Louis Zukofsky, there were important British modernist poets, including David Jones, Hugh MacDiarmid, Basil Bunting, and W. H. Auden.
Amongst modernists still publishing were Wallace Stevens, Gottfried Benn, T. S. Eliot, Anna Akhmatova, William Faulkner, Dorothy Richardson, John Cowper Powys, and Ezra Pound.
* Dominic Allen's stage play Odyssey loosely adapts the story into a post-apocalyptic setting, basing the Odysseus character on Ezra Pound.
* 1885 – Ezra Pound, American poet ( d. 1972 )
" Sestina: Altaforte " by Ezra Pound and " Paysage moralisé " by W. H. Auden are distinguished modern examples of the sestina.
In 1909, Yeats met the American poet Ezra Pound.
* February 19 – Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
Famous members of the Lost Generation include Cole Porter, Gerald Murphy, Patrick Henry Bruce, Waldo Peirce, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, John Dos Passos, and Sherwood Anderson.
** Ezra Pound, the poet and author, is arrested by American soldiers in Italy for treason.
* November 1 – Ezra Pound, American poet ( b. 1885 )
* October 30 – Ezra Pound, American poet ( d. 1972 )
Even in the 20th century, Ezra Pound considered this still to be the best Aeneid translation, praising the " richness and fervour " of its language and its hallmark fidelity to the original.
The prints also influenced early Modernist poetry in many important ways, with Imagist poets such as Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington and Amy Lowell allowing them strongly to influence their imagery and aesthetic sentiments.
Ezra Pound photographed on 22 October 1913 in Kensington, London, by Alvin Langdon Coburn
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The Ezra Post Office was in existence from October 30, 1908-September 30, 1913.
According to the Quran, Jews blasphemously claim that Ezra is the son of God, as Christians claim Jesus is, ( Surah 9: 30 ) and that God's hand is fettered ( Surah 5: 64 – i. e., that they can freely defy God ).
8: 12 ; Ezra 2: 33 ); now Kiryat-Ono, 5 miles north of Lydda ( Lod ), and about 30 miles northwest of Jerusalem.
Additional early Jewish literature that refers to a temporary messianic kingdom prior to the eternal state may be found in 4 Ezra 12: 34 ; 2 Baruch 24: 1-4 ; 30: 1-5 ; 39: 3-8 ; 40: 1-4 ; Jubilees 1: 4-29 ; 23: 14-31.
Ezra Taft Benson ( August 4, 1899 – May 30, 1994 ) was the thirteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) from 1985 until his death and was United States Secretary of Agriculture for both terms of the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Zuckerman is one of the investors defrauded in a " Ponzi Scheme ," by way of investments with Fifth Avenue Synagogue president J. Ezra Merkin who staked roughly 10 % ($ 30 million ) of Zuckerman's charitable trust fund with convicted scammer Bernard Madoff.
Ezra L ' Hommedieu ( August 30, 1734 – September 27, 1811 ) was an American lawyer and statesman from Southold, New York.
( 2 Samuel 8: 17 ; 1 Chronicles 24: 3 ) The lineage of Zadok is presented in the genealogy of Ezra ( his descenedant ) as being of ninth generation of direct patrilineal descent from Phineas the son of Eleazar ; Ezra 7: 1, see 1 Chronicles 5: 30 where he is placed ninth in descent from Phineas.
* May 30: President Ezra Taft Benson dies.
Irving Ezra Segal ( September 13, 1918 – August 30, 1998 ) was a mathematician known for work on theoretical quantum mechanics.
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