I think he nailed it.

so we looked him up. That guy had one hell of a life!

Fascinating.

While in custody in Italy, he had begun work on sections of The Cantos that became known as The Pisan Cantos (1948), for which he was awarded the Bollingen Prize in 1949 by the Library of Congress, triggering enormous controversy. He was released from St. Elizabeths in 1958, thanks to a campaign by his fellow writers, and returned to live in Italy until his death. His political views ensure that his work remains as controversial now as it was during his lifetime; in 1933 Time magazine called him "a cat that walks by himself, tenaciously unhousebroken and very unsafe for children". Hemingway wrote: "The best of Pound's writing – and it is in the Cantos – will last as long as there is any literature."[3]

more at link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound

Mom read that out loud because she was so delighted with it!

What's amazing to me is that he was alive during my lifetime. I never realized that.

the things I learn on DU

who was earlier.

I read a biography of him a few years ago.

Horrible what happened to him simply for being gay.

Constance Wilde (2 January 1859 – 7 April 1898), born Constance Mary Lloyd, was the wife of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde and the mother of their two sons, Cyril and Vyvyan. The daughter of Horace Lloyd, an Irish barrister, and Adelaide Atkinson Lloyd, she married Wilde on 29 May 1884, and had both her sons within the next two years. In 1888 she published a book based on children's stories she had heard from her grandmother, called There Was Once. She and her husband were involved in the dress reform movement.

more at link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Lloyd

I can't imagine all of that.

Interesting though because I didn't know she published a book.

edit Oscar's work, iirc. That wiki entry needs expanding.
They were quite the bohemian couple of the day.
But, yes after the first years life with Oscar was not easy.