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1880s
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:*1885, 30 October: Born in Hailey, Idaho, to Isabel Weston and Homer Loomis Pound.
:*1887–1889: Family moves to New York City, then Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1890s
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:*1890: Family moves to Jenkintown, Pennsylvania.
:*1892: Attends Miss Elliott's school; family moves to 166 Fernbrook Avenue, Wyncote, Pennsylvania.
:*1893–1895: Attends Chelten Hills School; Florence Ridpath School; and Wyncote Public School.
:*1895: Attends Cheltenham Military Academy.
:*1898: Three-month tour of Europe with mother and Aunt Frank.
1900s
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:*1900: Perhaps attends Cheltenham Township High School.
:*1901: Attends University of Pennsylvania; meets William Carlos Williams, Hilda Doolittle and William Brooke Smith
:*1902: Second three-month tour of Europe with parents and Aunt Frank.
:*1903: Transfers to Hamilton College, perhaps because of poor grades.
:*1905: Graduates with PhB; returns to University of Pennsylvania to study Romance languages.
:*1906: Receives MA; registers to write PhD; awarded fellowship; returns to Europe.
:*1907: Fellowship not renewed; leaves university; teaches Romance languages at Wabash College.
:*1908: Dismissed from Wabash College; in March leaves for Europe. In July self-publishes first collection, A Lume Spento. In Aug arrives in London. In Dec self-publishes second collection, A Quinzaine for this Yule.
:*1909: Jan–Feb lectures to Regent Street Polytechnic evening classes; meets Dorothy Shakespear. Elkin Mathews publishes Personae (A Quinzaine for this Yule with several additions) and in Sept Exhaltations.
1910s
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:*1910: Pound returns to New York; writes Patria Mia. In July J. M. Dent and Sons publish The Spirit of Romance, Pound's first book of literary criticism. Small, Maynard & Company, Boston, publish Provenga, first American edition of Pound's poetry.
:*1911: Pound returns to London. Elkin Matthews publishes Canzoni. In May Hilda Doolittle arrives in London. In August A. R. Orage hires Pound to write for The New Age.
:*1912: Pound, Doolittle and Richard Aldington start Imagism; Pound becomes foreign correspondent of Poetry magazine. In Oct Swift and Co publish Ripostes. Small, Maynard publish Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti.
:*1913: In March Poetry publishes Pound's "A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste", and in April his "In a Station of the Metro". Pound becomes poetry editor of The Egoist. Winter spent with W. B. Yeats in Sussex. In Dec writes to James Joyce (then unpublished) to request material.
:*1914: The Glebe publishes Des Imagistes in February, followed by Albert and Charles Boni in March in New York and the Poetry Bookshop in London in April. On 18 April Pound and Dorothy Shakespear marry. In Sept Fortnightly Review publishes his Vorticism essay, and Pound meets T. S. Eliot. In Oct sends Eliot's "Prufrock" to Poetry, and discusses publication of Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man with The Egoist.
:*1915: Pound begins The Cantos in September. Elkin Mathews publishes Cathay and Catholic Anthology (with poems by Eliot, William Carlos Williams, and Pound)
:*1916: John Lane, The Bodley Head publishes Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir. Elkin Matthews publishes Lustra. Cuala Press publishes Certain Noble Plays of Japan.
:*1917: Pound becomes foreign editor of The Little Review. Publishes "Three Cantos" in Poetry.
:*1918: Alfred Knopf publishes Pavannes and Divisions in New York. Pound writes for The New Age as William Atheling and B. H. Dias. He meets C. H. Douglas who introduces him to Social Credit.
:*1919: The Egoist Press publishes Quia Pauper Amavi
1920s
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:*1920: Becomes foreign correspondent of The Dial. Meets James Joyce in Venice. Instigations published in April in New York. Indiscretions published from May in New Age. Hugh Selwyn Moberley and Umbra, the Early Poems of Ezra Pound published in June.
:*1921: In January the Pounds leave for France and The New Age publishes Pound's Axiomata. Eliot gives Pound The Waste Land to edit. Poems 1918–21 published in New York, incl. Cantos IV–VII.
:*1922: Meets Ernest Hemingway. Returns The Waste Land to Eliot. Translation of The Natural Philosophy of Love is published in New York.
:*1923: Meets Olga Rudge in Paris. Writes the Malatesta Cantos VIII–XI. Indiscretions published by Three Mountains Press.
:*1924: In October the Pounds move to Italy. Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony published.
:*1925: Three Mountains Press publish A Draft of XVI Cantos in Paris. 9 July: the daughter of Olga Rudge and Pound, Mary, is born in Italy. A new literary magazine, This Quarter, dedicates its first issue to Pound, with tributes from Hemingway and Joyce.
:*1926: Le Testament de Villon performed in Paris; 10 September: the Pounds' son Omar is born in Paris. Personae, The Collected Poems of Ezra Pound published in December.
:*1927: In March Pound launched his own literary magazine, The Exile; only appeared four times. Won the 1927 Dial poetry award.
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