St Elizabeth's Hospital for the Criminally Insane

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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.
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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.
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“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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.
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, No. 10, pp. 9-12.
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Visitors from outside included Allen Ginsberg , to whom he apparently confessed that his stupid suburban prejudice...

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