Omar Shakespear Pound was an Anglo-American writer, teacher, and translator. He is the author of Arabic & Persian Poems (1970) and co-author of Wyndham Lewis

Wyndham Lewis

Percy Wyndham Lewis was an English painter and author . He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art, and edited the literary magazine of the Vorticists, BLAST...

: A Descriptive Bibliography (1978). He also published material about his father, the poet Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry...

, and his mother, Dorothy Shakespear

Dorothy Shakespear

Dorothy Shakespear was an English artist, the daughter of novelist Olivia Shakespear, and the wife of the poet Ezra Pound. She was a member of the Vorticism movement, and had her work published in the literary magazine BLAST.Dorothy met Ezra Pound in 1909; after a long courtship the two were...

, including Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear, Their Letters 1908–1914 (1984) and Ezra Pound and Margaret Cravens: A Tragic Friendship 1910–1912 (1988).

Background

Pound was born in Paris, but was raised in London by his maternal grandmother, Olivia Shakespear

Olivia Shakespear

Olivia Shakespear, , was a British novelist, playwright, and patron of the arts. She wrote six books that are described as "marriage problem" novels. Her works sold poorly, sometimes only a few hundred copies. Her last novel, Uncle Hilary, is considered her best...

. He attended the Norland Institute in London, and in 1933 moved to a Montessori school in Sussex. In 1940 he entered Charterhouse School

Charterhouse School

Charterhouse School, originally The Hospital of King James and Thomas Sutton in Charterhouse, or more simply Charterhouse or House, is an English collegiate independent boarding school situated at Godalming in Surrey.Founded by Thomas Sutton in London in 1611 on the site of the old Carthusian...

, leaving in 1942 to train in hotel management. He volunteered for the U.S. Army in 1945, and afterward attended Hamilton College in New York, his father's old college, where he studied anthropology

Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...

 and French, graduating in 1954. He studied Persian and Islamic history at the School of Oriental and African Studies

School of Oriental and African Studies

The School of Oriental and African Studies is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the University of London...

, and received an MA in Islamic Studies from McGill University

McGill University

Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...

 in 1958. He taught at the Roxbury Latin School in Boston, The American School of Tangier

The American School of Tangier

-Introduction:Welcome to The American School of Tangier. For sixty years, our school has been an anchor of learning and culture in northern Morocco...

, the Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire

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 College of Arts and Technology, and Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

. He married Elizabeth Stevenson Parkin, and they had two children, Katharine and Oriana.