Ezra Pound, Poet and Critic.
Along with T S Eliot, one of the major figures of the modernist and symbolist movements in early 20th century poetry.
Noted as the editor of T S Eliot's The Waste Land, which he pared down to become the major poem that it is today.
In World War II, during his residence in Italy, he took the side of Mussolini and the fascists, broadcasting anti-American propoganda. After the war, he was imprisoned in an American Mental Institution for these treasonous activities.
Major works include his Cantos. His most famous work, probably, is the haiku-like In a Station of the Metro.