Stephen Harding in Literary Hub:
By the spring of 1939, the widely acknowledged dean of Anglo-American Modernist poetry, fifty-three-year-old Ezra Pound, had lived in Europe for three decades. After leaving the United States in 1908 at the age of twenty- three, the poet had initially settled in London, then moved on to Paris, and in 1924, to the Italian seaside town of Rapallo, fifteen miles southeast of Genoa. A virulent anti-Semite, Pound became an ardent and vocal supporter of Benito Mussolini and Italian fascism. The poet actually met Il Duce in person on January 30, 1933, and following Franklin Roosevelt’s inauguration as America’s thirty-seventh president just over a month later, Pound quickly evolved into a rabid and outspoken foe of the New Deal and all it represented.
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