William Pratt is an alumnus of the University of Oklahoma (BA) and Vanderbilt (MA, PhD), who taught for over forty years at Miami University of Ohio, where he was Director of Freshman English from 1964-69, and retired as Professor Emeritus of English in 1998. He was Rotary Fellow at the University of Glasgow, 1951-52, Fulbright Professor of American Literature at University College, Dublin, 1975-76, and Resident Scholar at the Miami University European Center in Luxembourg in the fall of 1976. He has lectured widely on Modern Literature, including the Yeats Summer School in Sligo and the Joyce Summer School in Dublin, and has given papers at conferences of the International Society for Contemporary Literature and Theatre in England, France, Italy, and Germany, and other countries, and at Ezra Pound International Conferences (of which he was Secretary, 1991-2005) in Italy, France, England, and Ireland. He has published poems, translations, critical essays and reviews in literary magazines, and eighteen books, including The Imagist Poem, The Fugitive Poets, Singing the Chaos: Madness and Wisdom in Modern Poetry, Ezra Pound and the Making of Modernism, and most recently, ROMA/AMOR: Ezra Pound, Rome and Love.