Editing Ezra Pound (section)

===Early education===
[[File:Ezra Pound and Isabel Pound (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|left|alt=photograph|In his Cheltenham Military Academy uniform with his mother, 1898]]

Isabel Pound was unhappy in Hailey and took Ezra with her to New York in 1887 when he was 18 months old.<ref>Cockram (2005), 239; Moody (2007), 4.</ref> Her husband followed and found a job as an [[Metallurgical assay|assayer]] at the [[Philadelphia Mint]]. After a move to 417 Walnut Street in [[Jenkintown, Pennsylvania]], the family bought a six-bedroom house in 1893 at 166 Fernbrook Avenue, [[Wyncote, Pennsylvania|Wyncote]].<ref name=Moody2007pxiii/> Pound's education began in [[dame school]]s: Miss Elliott's school in Jenkintown in 1892 and the Heathcock family's Chelten Hills School in Wyncote in 1893.<ref name=Moody2007pxiii/> Known as "Ra" (pronounced "Ray"), he attended Wyncote Public School from September 1894.<ref>Carpenter (1988), 26–27.</ref> His first publication was on 7 November 1896 in the ''Jenkintown Times-Chronicle'' ("by E.&nbsp;L.&nbsp;Pound, Wyncote, aged 11 years"), a [[Limerick (poetry)|limerick]] about [[William Jennings Bryan]], who had just lost the [[1896 United States presidential election|1896 presidential election]].{{efn|"There was a young man from the West,&nbsp;/ He did what he could for what he thought best;&nbsp;/ But election came round;&nbsp;/ He found himself drowned,&nbsp;/ And the papers will tell you the rest."<ref>Carpenter (1988), 36.</ref>}}

In 1897, aged 12, he transferred to Cheltenham Military Academy (CMA), where he wore an [[American Civil War|American Civil War-style]] uniform and was taught drilling and how to shoot.<ref>Carpenter (1988), 30.</ref> The following year he made his first trip overseas, a three-month tour with his mother and Aunt Frank, who took him to England, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, and Morocco.<ref>Carpenter (1988), 32–33; Moody (2007), 10.</ref> He attended CMA until 1900, at times as a boarder, but it seems he did not graduate.<ref>Carpenter (1988), 30, 33–34.</ref>{{efn|Pound may have attended [[Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania|Cheltenham Township]] High School for the year 1900–1901.<ref>McDonald (2005), 91.</ref>}}