St Elizabeth's Hospital for the Criminally Insane

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Ezra Pound
In St Elizabeth's he gathered around him a motley crew of would-be poets, anti-semites and white supremacists.
Ford, Mark. “I want to boom”. London Review of Books, Vol.
34
, No. 10, pp. 9-12.
12
Visitors from outside included Allen Ginsberg , to whom he apparently confessed that his stupid suburban prejudice...
Health Ezra Pound
Having been declared medically incapable of standing trial, EP was sent to St Elizabeth's Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Washington.
Nadel, Ira Bruce, editor. “Chronology; Introduction”. The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, Cambridge University Press, pp. xvii - xxxi; 1.
xxvii
Health Ezra Pound
On 7 May 1958, at the age of seventy-two, EP was officially released from St Elizabeth's in response to petitions instigated by several writers, including Robert Frost , Archibald MacLeish , Ernest Hemingway , and T. S. Eliot .
Nadel, Ira Bruce, editor. “Chronology; Introduction”. The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, Cambridge University Press, pp. xvii - xxxi; 1.
xxix
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

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