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Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
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Ezra Pound
American poet and critic (1885–1972)
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and The Cantos.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Bollingen Prize
American biennial poetry prize
The Bollingen Prize for Poetry is a literary honor bestowed on an American poet. Every two years, the award recognizes a poet for best new volume of work or lifetime achievement. It is awarded without nominations or submissions by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Bollingen Foundation
Educational foundation (1945 to 1968)
The Bollingen Foundation was an educational foundation set up along the lines of a university press in 1945. It was named after Bollingen Tower, Carl Jung's country home in Bollingen, Switzerland. Funding was provided by Paul Mellon and his wife Mary Conover Mellon. The…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Yale University
Private university in New Haven, Connecticut, US
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)