Omar Pound is Ezra's only son by his wife Dorothy. Gossip had it that Dorothy came back home pregnant after a one-year holiday on her own in Egypt. Dad called new-born babe Omar, after Omar Khayyam. Omar Pound studied Arabic poetry in Cambridge in early 1950s, and my friend Hussam Al-Katib, currently a Palestinian Professor of Comaparative Literature over here in Qatar, told me once that he and Omar attended classes together in Cambridge, and one of their professors was the Commie Raymond Williams. Omar would go to Hussam asking him to explain certain words and phrases in verses he was working on to translate from Arabic into English. In 1987, Omar came to Baghdad, Iraq to attend a contemporary Arabic poetry festival. Until recently, Omar Pound was Professor of Islamic Studies in Oxford
Since the 15th century to mid-19th century, Arabic poetry became sterile because poets didn't break out of the mould. The same thing happened in English literature at the end of the 18th century. After Dryden and Pope the writing of poetry became so formalised that poetry at the end of the Augustan Age was very atrocious. It only came back to life when Wordsworth replaced old moulds by new ones