Ezra Weston Loomis Pound ( 30 October 1885 -- 1 November 1972 ) was an expatriate US poet and critic who was a major figure in the early modernist movement .
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound ( 30 October 1885 -- 1 November 1972 ) was an American poet and critic . He was a major figure of the early modernist movement .