- Omar Pound
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Omar Shakespear Pound Born September 10, 1926
Paris, FranceDied March 2, 2010, aged 83[1]
Princeton, New JerseyNationality British, American Education BA in anthropology and French (1954), MA in Islamic Studies (1958). Alma mater Hamilton College, New York; London School of Oriental and African Studies; McGill University Occupation Writer, teacher Spouse Elizabeth Stevenson Parkin Parents Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear Omar Shakespear Pound (September 10, 1926 – March 2, 2010) was an Anglo-American writer, teacher, and translator. He is the author of Arabic & Persian Poems (1970) and co-author of Wyndham Lewis: A Descriptive Bibliography (1978). He also published material about his father, the poet Ezra Pound, and his mother, Dorothy Shakespear, including Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear, Their Letters 1908–1914 (1984) and Ezra Pound and Margaret Cravens: A Tragic Friendship 1910–1912 (1988).[2]
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Background
Pound was born in Paris, but was raised in London by his maternal grandmother, Olivia Shakespear. He attended the Norland Institute in London, and in 1933 moved to a Montessori school in Sussex. In 1940 he entered Charterhouse School, leaving in 1942 to train in hotel management. He volunteered for the U.S. Army in 1945, and afterward attended Hamilton College in New York, his father's old college, where he studied anthropology and French, graduating in 1954. He studied Persian and Islamic history at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and received an MA in Islamic Studies from McGill University in 1958. He taught at the Roxbury Latin School in Boston, The American School of Tangier, the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology, and Princeton University. He married Elizabeth Stevenson Parkin,[2] and they had two children, Katharine and Oriana.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b "Pound, Omar Shakespear", The New York Times, March 10, 2010.
- ^ a b Pound, Omar. "Pound, Omar (b. 1926", in Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos and Stephen Adams (eds.). The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005, p. 239.
Ezra Pound Family Omar Pound · Thaddeus C. Pound · Mary de Rachewiltz · Olga Rudge · Dorothy Shakespear · William Wadsworth
Friends Richard Aldington · Basil Bunting · Hilda Doolittle · T. S. Eliot · E. E. Cummings · Ford Madox Ford · Robert Frost · Henri Gaudier-Brzeska · Ernest Hemingway · T. E. Hulme · James Joyce · Hugh Kenner · D. H. Lawrence · Wyndham Lewis · Charles Elkin Mathews · Archibald MacLeish · Marianne Moore · Eustace Mullins · Olivia Shakespear · Allen Tate · William Carlos Williams · William Butler Yeats · Louis Zukofsky
Poems Ballad of the Goodly Fere · Hugh Selwyn Mauberley · In a Station of the Metro · Ripostes · The Cantos
Other work ABC of Reading · Le Testament de Villon
Styles Magazines, publishers Miscellaneous A ZBC of Ezra Pound · Bollingen Prize · Ernest Fenollosa · List of cultural references in The Cantos · Lost generation · Schloss Brunnenburg · St. Elizabeths Hospital · Visits to St. Elizabeths
Categories Ezra Pound · Works by Ezra Pound
Categories:- 1926 births
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- Hamilton College (New York) alumni
- Translators to English
- Living people
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