Editing Ezra Pound (section)

===Teaching===
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 | quote=<poem>I am homesick after mine own kind,
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 | source= —&nbsp;''Personae of Ezra Pound'' (1909)<ref>Pound (1909), 40</ref><br />written in Crawfordsville, Indiana, 1907<ref>Carpenter (1988), 78; Moody (2007), 90</ref>
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From September 1907 Pound taught French and Spanish at [[Wabash College]],<ref>"Professor Pound goes to Wabash". ''The Indianapolis News'', 9 August 1907, 11.</ref> a [[Presbyterian]] college with 345 students in [[Crawfordsville, Indiana]],<ref>Carpenter (1988), 71–73; Moody (2007), 56</ref> which he called "the [[Inferno (Dante)#Sixth Circle (Heresy)|sixth circle of hell]]".<ref>Moody (2007), 59</ref> One former student remembered him as a breath of fresh air; another said he was "exhibitionist, egotistic, self-centered and self-indulgent".<ref>Carpenter (1988), 74</ref>

He was dismissed after a few months. Smoking was forbidden, but he would smoke [[cigarillo]]s in his room in the same corridor as the president's office.<ref>Moody (2007), 58</ref> He was asked to leave the college in January 1908 when his landladies, Ida and Belle Hall, found a woman in his room.<ref>Tytell (1987), 34; Carpenter (1988), 80–81; Moody (2007), 60–61</ref> Shocked at having been expelled,<ref>Tytell (1987), 34</ref> he left for Europe soon after, sailing from New York in March on the [[RMS Slavonia|RMS ''Slavonia'']].<ref>Carpenter (1988), 83; Moody (2007), 62</ref>