A serious poet

hi! I've been looking up some poems earlier and i stumbled upon this: The Beautiful Toilet Blue, blue is the grass about the river And the willows have overfilled the close garden. And within, the mistress, in the midmost of her youth, White, white of face, hesitates, passing the door. Slender, she puts forth a slender hand; And she was a courtezan in the old days, And she has married a sot, Who now goes drunkenly out And leaves her too much alone. - by Mei Sheng B.C. 140 this is a poem translated by Ezra Pound found in his book CATHAY. the book has 19 poems published in 1915. Ezra Pound was born on 30 October 1885 in Hailey, Idaho Territory but his family moved to the suburbs of Pennsylvania when he was still 18 months old. In 1908, he traveled to Europe, settling in London after spending several months in Venice. He had to do this due to a minor scandal in Indiana when he was still teaching at the Wabash College in Crawfordsvile. His most famous work would be THE PISAN CANTOS that won the Bollingen Prize in 1948. He was then condemned as a traitor of his own country and was diagnosed to have a serious and disabling mental illness. Hope this one helped! Good Luck!