William PrattWilliam Pratt has held academic posts at Vanderbilt University and at Miami University from where he was Associate Professor and Director of Freshman English, 1964-68 and where he is now Professor of English Emeritus. He was Fulbright-Hays Professor f American Literature, University College, Dublin, 1975-76; Scholar in Residence, Miami University European Center, Luxembourg, Fall 1976; and Writer in Residence, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig House, Co. Monaghan, Ireland, Summer, 1992 and 1996. He was Secretary of the Ezra Pound International Conference, 1991-200, amongst other scholarly and public appointments. This is his 20th book. He has published widely on many major modern writers. His works concerned with Ezra Pound alone include Ezra Pound and London: New Perspectives edited by Walter Baumann and William Pratt (AMS Press, 2015); Roma/Amor: Ezra Pound, Rome and Love edited by William Pratt and Caterina Ricciardi (AMS Press, 2013); Ezra Pound, Ends and Beginnings, Essays and Poems, edited by John Gery and William Pratt. (AMS Press, 2011); The Imagist Poem, Third Edition, edited (University of New Orleans Press, 2009); Ezra Pound, Language and Persona, edited by Massimo Bacigalupo and William Pratt (University of Genoa Press, 2008), and Ezra Pound and the Making of Modernism (AMS Press, 2007). Read More Read Less