Editing Ezra Pound (section)

===Death===
[[File:Gravesite of Ezra Pound & Olga Rudge.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|alt=photograph|left|The graves of Pound and Olga Rudge at [[San Michele Cemetery, Venice|San Michele cemetery]] on the [[Isola di San Michele]]]]
Shortly before his death in 1972, an [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] committee, which included his publisher James Laughlin, proposed that Pound be awarded the [[Emerson-Thoreau Medal]]. After a storm of protest, the academy's council opposed it by 13 to 9.<ref>Tytell (1987), 337–338; Carpenter (1988), 908</ref> In the foreword of a [[Faber & Faber]] volume of his prose, he wrote in July: "In sentences referring to groups or races 'they' should be used with great care. re USURY: / I was out of focus, taking a symptom for a cause. / The cause is AVARICE."<ref>Carpenter (1988), 909</ref>

On his 87th birthday, on 30 October 1972, he was too weak to leave his bedroom. The next night he was admitted to the San Giovanni e Paolo Civil Hospital in Venice, where he died in his sleep on 1 November of "sudden [[intestinal blockage|blockage of the intestine]]".<ref>Carpenter (1988), 910</ref> Alerted by telegram, Dorothy Pound, who was living in a care home near Cambridge, England, requested a Protestant funeral in Venice. Telegrams were sent via American embassies in Rome and London, and the consulate in Milan, but Rudge would not change the plans she had already made for the morning of 3 November. Omar Pound flew to Venice as soon as he could, with Peter du Sautoy of Faber & Faber, but he arrived too late.<ref>Moody (2015), 487–488; Swift (2017), 244</ref> Four [[gondolier]]s dressed in black rowed Pound's body to Venice's municipal cemetery, the [[San Michele Cemetery, Venice|San Michele cemetery]], where, after a Protestant service, he was buried in the Protestant section of the cemetery, near [[Sergei Diaghilev|Diaghilev]] and [[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky]] who rest at the adjoining Orthodox section, with other non-Catholic Christians.<ref>Tytell (1987), 339; Carpenter (1988), 911; Cohassey (2014), 162; [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/11/02/79477128.pdf "Ezra Pound Dies in Venice at Age of 87"]. ''The New York Times'', 2 November 1972.</ref> According to [[Hugh Kenner]], Pound had wanted to be buried in Idaho with his bust by [[Henri Gaudier-Brzeska]] on his grave.<ref>Kenner (1973), 259; Carpenter (1988), 911</ref> Dorothy Pound died in England the following year, aged 87. Olga Rudge died in 1996, aged 100, and was buried next to Pound.<ref name=Nadel2007p18/>