An American writer likes China's writing very much.

Ezra pound is a famous American poet and a representative figure of Imagism. He and Eliot are both representatives of symbolism poetry in the later period. He gave birth to the theory of "artistic conception" from China's classical poems and Japanese haiku, and made outstanding contributions to the mutual reference of eastern and western poems.

Ezra pound later spread fascism. Before the outbreak of World War II, Pound came to Italy and organized an anti-American radio station there to support Mussolini. He was arrested for treason. Persuaded by his friends, he pretended to be a mental patient and escaped the trial of treason. He was detained at Elizabeth Hospital 13 in Washington, D.C..

He wrote 25 long poems in a mental hospital, translated The Great Learning, The Doctrine of the Mean and The Analects of Confucius (Mencius) in The Book of Songs and Four Books in Italian, translated some diaries of Mussolini, and translated a tragedy of Sophocles. At the same time, he quickly wrote articles for magazines and wrote thousands of anonymous letters. During this period, he shined brilliantly in poetry and won the National Literature Award. After being released. After his release, he returned to Italy and died there.

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