EZRA POUND PORTRAIT, 21st century

Ezra Weston Loomis POUND (October 30, 1885 - Venice, November 1, 1972), poet, essayist and US translator. Having lived in Europe since 1908 and in Italy since 1925, he developed a social-economic theory at the same time anti-liberal and anti-politicist, which led him to actively support Mussolini's fascism and Nazism in pursuit of the "third path", adhering to the Social Republic Italian. Captured by the partisans and handed over to the US government in 1945, he was tried for collaboration and betrayal, and finally declared mentally ill and imprisoned for 12 years in a criminal asylum; He returned to Italy, where he lived until the end of his days. An original and tedious poet, impassive to events, had a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959, but the commission could not take it into consideration because with his active support to the fascist and Nazi regimes he had been responsible for the propagation of ideas Which are in sharp contrast to the spirit of the Nobel Prize ". Portrait, illustration of Dariush Radpour, colored colored pencil drawing, sd