Personae: The Shorter Poems

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet, critic and intellectual who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in the first half of the 20th century. He is generally considered the poet most responsible for defining and promoting a modernist aesthetic in poetry.[1] The critic Hugh Kenner said of Pound upon meeting him: "I suddenly knew that I was in the presence of the center of modernism."[2] Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound

Lea Baechler writes about American literature, with a special interest in women authors. Her book, "Modern American women writers," offers a close look at significant voices in the field.

A. Walton Litz is a literary scholar with a focus on American literature and poetry. He is known for editing the Anthology of Modern American Poetry and for his studies on authors like Jane Austen and modern American women writers.