Omar Shakespear Pound (September 10, 1926 – March 2, 2010) was an Anglo-American writer, teacher, and translator.
Omar Shakespear Pound, 83, of Princeton, died peacefully March 2nd at the Merwick Care Center after a long illness. He was a teacher, editor, translator and poet.
He was born in 1926 in Paris and grew up in England, attending Charterhouse School. During World War II, he survived bombing during the Blitz in London and then in 1945 joined the US Army, serving in France and Germany, and was demobilized in the US. He enrolled at Hamilton College with the class of 1951, but before completing his studies, he spent time in France, England and Iran. He studied at the School of Oriental & African Studies in London and the University of Tehran, returning to the US by way of Pakistan, India and Japan. He graduated from Hamilton in 1954 and then went to study at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University (MA, 1958). In 1955, he married Elizabeth Parkin of Montreal. Omar taught at the Roxbury Latin School in Boston for five years, before becoming Director of the American School of Tangier in Morocco in 1962. With their two daughters, the Pounds moved to Dorset, England in 1965 and then settled in Cambridge, where Omar taught at the Cambridgeshire College of Arts & Technology. In 1980, they moved to Princeton, where Omar focused on writing and editing, as well as teaching English composition part-time at the University from the mid-1980s to 1992.
His own poetry was published in various volumes including The Dying Sorcerer (1985), Pissle and the Holy Grail (1987) and Poems Inside and Out (1999) as well as many small magazines. In his translations, which included the volume Arabic and Persian Poems and a 14th century Persian satirical fable Gorby and the Rats, he wrote that his aim was 'a readable poem and a rediscovery'. He co-edited three volumes of literary correspondence and a bibliography of writer and artist Wyndham Lewis. He was a founding trustee of the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust.
Son of the late Ezra & Dorothy (nee Shakespear) Pound, Omar is survived by his wife Elizabeth of Princeton, his elder daughter Katherine Pound of St Paul, MN and her two sons, Ben & Joshua, and his younger daughter Oriana Pound of London, UK.
https://www.thekimblefuneralhome.com/obituary/996515
Omar Shakespear Pound, 83, of Princeton, died peacefully March 2nd at the Merwick Care Center after a long illness. He was a teacher, editor, translator and poet.
He was born in 1926 in Paris and grew up in England, attending Charterhouse School. During World War II, he survived bombing during the Blitz in London and then in 1945 joined the US Army, serving in France and Germany, and was demobilized in the US. He enrolled at Hamilton College with the class of 1951, but before completing his studies, he spent time in France, England and Iran. He studied at the School of Oriental & African Studies in London and the University of Tehran, returning to the US by way of Pakistan, India and Japan. He graduated from Hamilton in 1954 and then went to study at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University (MA, 1958). In 1955, he married Elizabeth Parkin of Montreal. Omar taught at the Roxbury Latin School in Boston for five years, before becoming Director of the American School of Tangier in Morocco in 1962. With their two daughters, the Pounds moved to Dorset, England in 1965 and then settled in Cambridge, where Omar taught at the Cambridgeshire College of Arts & Technology. In 1980, they moved to Princeton, where Omar focused on writing and editing, as well as teaching English composition part-time at the University from the mid-1980s to 1992.
His own poetry was published in various volumes including The Dying Sorcerer (1985), Pissle and the Holy Grail (1987) and Poems Inside and Out (1999) as well as many small magazines. In his translations, which included the volume Arabic and Persian Poems and a 14th century Persian satirical fable Gorby and the Rats, he wrote that his aim was 'a readable poem and a rediscovery'. He co-edited three volumes of literary correspondence and a bibliography of writer and artist Wyndham Lewis. He was a founding trustee of the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust.
Son of the late Ezra & Dorothy (nee Shakespear) Pound, Omar is survived by his wife Elizabeth of Princeton, his elder daughter Katherine Pound of St Paul, MN and her two sons, Ben & Joshua, and his younger daughter Oriana Pound of London, UK.
https://www.thekimblefuneralhome.com/obituary/996515
Omar Shakespear Pound (September 10, 1926 – March 2, 2010) was an Anglo-American writer, teacher, and translator.
Omar Shakespear Pound, 83, of Princeton, died peacefully March 2nd at the Merwick Care Center after a long illness. He was a teacher, editor, translator and poet.
He was born in 1926 in Paris and grew up in England, attending Charterhouse School. During World War II, he survived bombing during the Blitz in London and then in 1945 joined the US Army, serving in France and Germany, and was demobilized in the US. He enrolled at Hamilton College with the class of 1951, but before completing his studies, he spent time in France, England and Iran. He studied at the School of Oriental & African Studies in London and the University of Tehran, returning to the US by way of Pakistan, India and Japan. He graduated from Hamilton in 1954 and then went to study at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University (MA, 1958). In 1955, he married Elizabeth Parkin of Montreal. Omar taught at the Roxbury Latin School in Boston for five years, before becoming Director of the American School of Tangier in Morocco in 1962. With their two daughters, the Pounds moved to Dorset, England in 1965 and then settled in Cambridge, where Omar taught at the Cambridgeshire College of Arts & Technology. In 1980, they moved to Princeton, where Omar focused on writing and editing, as well as teaching English composition part-time at the University from the mid-1980s to 1992.
His own poetry was published in various volumes including The Dying Sorcerer (1985), Pissle and the Holy Grail (1987) and Poems Inside and Out (1999) as well as many small magazines. In his translations, which included the volume Arabic and Persian Poems and a 14th century Persian satirical fable Gorby and the Rats, he wrote that his aim was 'a readable poem and a rediscovery'. He co-edited three volumes of literary correspondence and a bibliography of writer and artist Wyndham Lewis. He was a founding trustee of the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust.
Son of the late Ezra & Dorothy (nee Shakespear) Pound, Omar is survived by his wife Elizabeth of Princeton, his elder daughter Katherine Pound of St Paul, MN and her two sons, Ben & Joshua, and his younger daughter Oriana Pound of London, UK.
https://www.thekimblefuneralhome.com/obituary/996515
Omar Shakespear Pound, 83, of Princeton, died peacefully March 2nd at the Merwick Care Center after a long illness. He was a teacher, editor, translator and poet.
He was born in 1926 in Paris and grew up in England, attending Charterhouse School. During World War II, he survived bombing during the Blitz in London and then in 1945 joined the US Army, serving in France and Germany, and was demobilized in the US. He enrolled at Hamilton College with the class of 1951, but before completing his studies, he spent time in France, England and Iran. He studied at the School of Oriental & African Studies in London and the University of Tehran, returning to the US by way of Pakistan, India and Japan. He graduated from Hamilton in 1954 and then went to study at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University (MA, 1958). In 1955, he married Elizabeth Parkin of Montreal. Omar taught at the Roxbury Latin School in Boston for five years, before becoming Director of the American School of Tangier in Morocco in 1962. With their two daughters, the Pounds moved to Dorset, England in 1965 and then settled in Cambridge, where Omar taught at the Cambridgeshire College of Arts & Technology. In 1980, they moved to Princeton, where Omar focused on writing and editing, as well as teaching English composition part-time at the University from the mid-1980s to 1992.
His own poetry was published in various volumes including The Dying Sorcerer (1985), Pissle and the Holy Grail (1987) and Poems Inside and Out (1999) as well as many small magazines. In his translations, which included the volume Arabic and Persian Poems and a 14th century Persian satirical fable Gorby and the Rats, he wrote that his aim was 'a readable poem and a rediscovery'. He co-edited three volumes of literary correspondence and a bibliography of writer and artist Wyndham Lewis. He was a founding trustee of the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust.
Son of the late Ezra & Dorothy (nee Shakespear) Pound, Omar is survived by his wife Elizabeth of Princeton, his elder daughter Katherine Pound of St Paul, MN and her two sons, Ben & Joshua, and his younger daughter Oriana Pound of London, UK.
https://www.thekimblefuneralhome.com/obituary/996515
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