Obituary
Omar Shakespear Pound, 83, of Princeton, died peacefully March 2 at the Merwick Care Center after a long illness. He was a teacher, editor, translator, and poet.
Born in 1926 in Paris, he 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 U.S. Army, serving in France and Germany. He was demobilized in the U.S.
He enrolled at Hamilton College with the class of 1951, but before completing his studies 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 U.S. by way of Pakistan, India, and Japan. He graduated from Hamilton in 1954 and then went on to study at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University. In 1955, he married Elizabeth Parkin of Montreal.
Mr. Pound 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 to Cambridge, where Mr. Pound taught at the Cambridgeshire College of Arts & Technology. In 1980, the family moved to Princeton, where Mr. Pound focused on writing, editing, and teaching English composition part-time at the University from the mid-1980s to 1992.
His 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 in 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 the 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, he is survived by his wife, Elizabeth; two daughters, Katherine Pound of St. Paul, Minn. and Oriana Pound of London, UK; and two grandsons.
To extend condolences online, visit http://memorialwebsites.legacy.com/OmarSPound/homepage.aspx
[online at Town Topics <http://www.towntopics.com/mar1010/obits.php>, viewed 16 Aug 2011]
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1926 - 2010 (83 years)
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