American expatriates in Italy: Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, Gore Vidal, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, George Clooney - Tapa blanda

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 99. Chapters: Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, Gore Vidal, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, George Clooney, Vincent Schiavelli, Kobe Bryant, Eddie Cheever, Olga Rudge, Richard Harrison, Willem Dafoe, Lionel Stander, Conrad Marca-Relli, Terence Trent D'Arby, Dorothy Gish, Barbara Bouchet, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Romina Power, Amii Stewart, Dean Reed, Linda Christian, Danny Huston, Kevin Eubanks, Charlotte Saunders Cushman, Philip Corner, Giorgio Cavallon, Isis Gee, Harold Norse, Brooke Burns, Andrew R. Cobb, Barbara Bach, John Paul Getty III, Frank Wolff, Walt Barnes, Susan Strasberg, Tony Anthony, Marianne Wiggins, Gordon Mitchell, Brett Halsey, Agnes von Kurowsky, Gladys Swarthout, John Horne Burns, Ray Danton, Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd, Elizabeth Spencer, Franklin Simmons, Rose Cleveland, Sydne Rome, Daniel Capecci, Aricca Vitanza, Brad Harris, Lina Pagliughi, Charles Caryl Coleman, Vance Buck, John Hemingway, Dan Vadis, Ross Cheever, Mark Damon. Excerpt: Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 - 1 November 1972) was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry. He became known for his role in developing Imagism, which, in reaction to the Victorian and Georgian poets, favored tight language, unadorned imagery, and a strong correspondence between the verbal and musical qualities of the verse and the mood it expressed. His best-known works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his unfinished 120-section epic, The Cantos, which consumed his middle and late career, and was published between 1917 and 1969. Working in London in the early 20th century as foreign editor of several American literary magazines, Pound helped to discover and shape the work of contemporaries such as T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Robert Frost, and Ernest Hemingway. Pound was responsib...