Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an American critic and poet. The Essential Ezra Pound Collection (with an active table of contents) contains 7 books, including: • Canzoni & Ripostes, by Ezra Pound and T.E. Hulme • Certain Noble Plays of Japan • Exultations • Hugh Selwyn Mauberley • Instigations, by Ernest Fenollosa • Personae • Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry by T.S. Eliot