Cannell studied at the University of Virginia and was enthusiastic about the work of Edgar Allan Poe and the free verse of The King James Version of The Bible.
Back in London, Pound took Cannell and Kitty to visit Yeats and found a room for the couple below his own in Church Walk, Kensington.
Cannell's work appeared in the first Imagist anthology, edited by Pound and published by Poetry Bookshop in 1914 Des Imagistes[1] and The New Poetry: An Anthology, edited by Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson in 1917.
Cannell married secondly Juliette Del Grange, a French national with whom he had two daughters, May and Sarah.
He married a third time to Catherine Pettigrew, with whom he had five additional children, David, Mary, Michael, John and Susan.