Archive for January 5th, 2010
Ezra Pound “Compassionate heaven” Poem Animation
“Compassionate heaven” The sound recording was made in Spoleto, Italy, summer 1970. Ezra Loomis Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho in 1885 but spent his formative years in Wyancote, Pennsylvania, where his father was an assayer to the United States Mint. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania for two years then transferred to Hamilton college, receiving a degree in 1905. After teaching Romance Languages at Wabash College in Indiana for two years, he resigned and travelled to Spain, …