Ezra Pound: Poet
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How to Read 72, 127, 145, 188, 191
Huddleston, Sisley 8, 9
‘Huey, God bless him’ 325–7
Hughes, Langston 105, 189
Hughes, Robert 19, 20, 26, 115, 116, 320
Hunt, Violet 268
Hutton, Will 329
Hynes, Gladys 78
Ibbotson, Joseph Darling 144, 299
ideogrammic method 76–8, 167, 174, 235, 249–50
Il Mare (weekly paper) 104, 130, 185, 186 ‘Supplemento Letterario’ 104, 185
Imagisme 9, 72
‘Immediate Need of Confucius’ 247
Ingham, Michael 27
intelligence: chemical basis of 11
creative intelligence 9–11, 55, 102
development of 74–5
efficient intelligence 139, 175
in government 162–3
insects 225
intelligence of the poet 159
light 11–12
of love 108, 111, 112, 228
particularity of 230
as society’s primary resource 4–6, 36
will to govern 139
International Irish Race Conference 33
International Labour Organization (ILO) 106
Introductory Text Book 299, 305, 309
Italy under Mussolini: achievements of 134
anti-individualistic nature of 134–5
challenge for America 142–3
establishment of 44
fanaticism 118
George V’s state visit 52
official wariness of Pound 201, 202–3
organization of 133–4
Pound denies writing propaganda for 200
Pound dreams of modern renaissance in 55, 142
Pound impressed by new energy in 47
Pound moves to (1924) 62–3, 64–5
Pound opposes sanctions against 202
Pound travels in 40, 46–8, 58–61
Pound’s 1935 radio broadcast 193
Pound’s favourable view of 102
Pound’s justification of dictatorship for 140–1
Pound’s pro-Italian journalism 200–1, 203
Pound’s prose writings in 103–4
Pound’s reaction to invasion of Abyssinia 199–200, 202
Pound’s wartime ‘Radio Speeches’ 103
private property/wealth 135
race laws 259–60
synthesis of capitalism and socialism 135
totalitarianism 134 see also Mussolini, Benito
Izzo, Carlo 263
Jackson, Andrew 171, 172, 181
Japan, Pound’s promotion of cultural exchange with 255–7
Japan Times and Mail 256
Jarrell, Randall 283
Jefferson, Thomas: in Cantos 160, 161–4
shaping of American Revolution 170
Jefferson and/or Mussolini 101, 102, 138, 139, 141–2, 162, 168, 169, 172, 177, 181, 225, 236
Jockey Club Bar 6–7
Jordan, Viola Baxter 189
Joyce, James (3), xi, 28, 62, 144 Finnegans Wake 57
ill-health 29
Pound’s criticism of Finnegans Wake 92
Pound’s disaffection with 91–2
Pound’s efforts on behalf of 28–9
Ulysses 33, 34
Work in Progress 92
Judaism 239, 262 see also anti-Semitism
Kaltenborn, H V 310
Kearns, George 223
Kenner, Hugh 283
Kimball, Dexter 174
Kirstein, Lincoln 97
Kitasono, Katue 249, 251, 253, 255–6, 257
Koumé, Tami 40
Lanchester, John 376n
Landowska, Wanda 117
Laughlin, James, IV (15), 185–6, 189, 192–3, 195, 205, 208, 248, 304, 305, 381n
Le Testament or Villon xi, 17–23, 24, 58, 67 brief history of 318–20
co-operation with Agnes Bedford 18–19
co-operation with George Antheil 19–20
models for 22
orchestration 19–20, 24
originality of 24–5
outline of 315–18
performance of 23, 24, 69, 319, 320
primacy of words 18
radio production of 114–15, 126, 319–20
staging 22
League of Nations: Abyssinia 197
Disarmament Conference 187
Pound opposes sanctions against Italy 202
Pound proposes replacement for 200, 202–3
Pound views as British financial tool 202
Leavis, F R 191
Léger, Fernand xi, 6, 58
Levi, Giorgio 253
Lewis, Wyndham 28, 40, 184, 267 denigration of Pound 91
portrait of Pound 268
Pound’s continuing regard for 91
on pre-war London 297
Time and Western Man 91, 92
Li Ki (Chinese book of rites and ceremonies) 27, 273–4, 277, 282
Liberation (journal) 240
light: in Cantos 16, 89, 228, 232, 233
divine light 11–12, 82
intelligence 11
love 112–13, 115, 231
Lincoln, Abraham 294
L’Indice (literary paper) 103–4
Literary Essays 109
Little Review 4
Liveright, Horace 9–10, 31, 67
Liverpool Post 38
Lloyd George, David 187
Long, Huey P 150–3, 156 ‘Huey, God bless him’ 325–7
‘Share Our Wealth Principles’ 152, 153
Lovibond, Pamela 120
Loy, Mina 11
McAlmon, Robert 36, 98, 118, 145
McCormack, Nancy Cox 8, 39, 54
MacDiarmid, Hugh 191
McGann, Jerome J 230–1
MacLeish, Archibald 127, 304
de Mailla, Joseph-Anne-Marie de Moyriac 273, 274–5
Maitland, Robert 24
Make It New 109, 127, 128, 191, 206
Malatesta, Sigismondo Pandolfo 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 48–51
Marcher, Frau Johanna 67, 122
Marinetti, F T 103, 269
Marsano, Edizioni 109
Marx, Karl, in Cantos 164
Masaryk, Tómaš 84, 264
Medici, in Cantos 85–6
‘Medievalism’ 112
Mellon, Andrew 146, 157
Mencius 248, 249, 250–1
Mencken, H L 306
Mensdorff, Count Albert von 118
Midas, King 86
Midland (magazine) 96
Milhaud, Darius 7
Miller, Charles A 310
money: banks’ creation of 148, 330
in Cantos 81, 84, 85
causes of war 106
credit 102, 148–9
finance/financial system 12, 85, 122, 169, 174, 193, 202, 230, 237, 240, 246, 261, 287, 303, 307
as foundation of sane administration 307
lack of purchasing power as cause of Depression 147–8
Nazi Germany 265
as pivot of all social action 299–300
state control of credit 141–2
sterling crisis 125–6 see also banks; credit; economics; stamp scrip; usury
Monotti, Francesco 193
Monro, Harold 6
Monroe, Harriet 37, 45, 96
Monte dei Paschi bank 207 in Cantos 212–14, 216
Moore, Marianne 11, 94, 188, 303
Morada (magazine) 96
Morand, Paul 4, 40
Morgan, J P 177
Mosley, Oswald 208, 209, 268
Münch, Gerhart 184, 186–7, 204, 237, 254, 260
Munich Agreement 264 Pound’s approval of 265
Munson, Gorham 186, 208, 236, 245, 301, 303
Murphy, Dudley 58
music, and Pound xi, 7 Antheil’s noisy rehearsals 57–8
in Cantos 161–2, 165, 178
Cavalcanti (opera) 114, 115–16, 321–5
‘Collis O Heliconii’ 116
compositions for violin 57
Dante’s ‘Al poco giorno’ 116
economic aspects 194–5
Fiddle Music: First Suite 61
frequencies 27
Great Bass 26–7, 28, 72
his natural measure 24
‘Homage Froissart’ 69
musical form in Cantos 17, 88–9, 165–7, 178–80, 223–4
music of words 17–18, 20, 24
order 27–8, 205
Rapallo concerts 184, 186, 189, 194–5, 210, 253–5, 270
Rapallo musical seminars 204–5
rhythm 26
Sonate ‘Ghuidonis’ 115
theory of harmony 25–8
use of microfilm in research 255
Venice Biennale of Music (1936) 210–11
Vivaldi revival 204–5, 253, 255, 258
Williams’ opinion of his abilities 61 see also Le Testament or Villon
Mussolini, Benito xii, 44, 51, 133–4, 158 Abyssinia 197
achievements of 134
in Cantos 178–80
on consequences of agreement with Hitler 197
international praise for 135
Munich Agreement 264, 265
Nazi-Fascist Axis 198–9, 251
Pound meets 136–7
Pound requests audience with 130
Pound’s justification of his dictatorship 140–1
Pound’s positive view of 54–5, 100, 101, 138, 140, 141, 142, 158–9, 204
Pound’s support for economic policy of xii, 101, 136, 138, 140–2
race laws 1938 135n, 259–61
receives Order of the Bath 52
Rudge performs for 70, 101
Spanish Civil War 198
synthesis of capitalism and socialism 135 see also Italy under Mussolini
National Banking Act (USA) 218, 330–2
National Institute of Arts and Letters (USA), Pound’s election to 298
Natural Philosophy of Love (Remy de Gourmont) 9–10 Pound’s ‘Translator’s Postscript’ 10
Nazi Germany 183, 191 Anschluss 257–8
anti-Semitism 183, 196–7, 239, 257–60
economic policy 238
economic preparations for war 238
Nazi-Fascist Axis 198–9
Nuremberg Laws 196
Pound’s negative view of 236–7
Pound’s opposition to war against 265
Pound’s positive view of 237–9
re-armament 196, 199
‘Near Perigord’ 49
Nevins, Allan 164
New Age 37
New Directions 192
New English Weekly 154, 194, 236, 241, 265
New Hungarian Quartet 210, 253
New Masses (magazine) 72, 96, 107, 129, 242
New Review 96, 101
New York 303, 306
Ngan 279–80
Nitti, Francesco 103
Nixon, David 253
Norland Institute and Nurseries 69
Norman, Charles 71, 245, 303, 304, 310
Nott, Stanley 247, 248, 252
Obermer, Edgar 121
Odysseus 175–6, 221
Olivet College (Michigan) 298–9
Oppen, George 118, 124, 127, 184
Oppen, Mary 118, 124–5, 127, 184
Orage, Alfred Richard 52, 173, 182, 219
order 182 civic order 63, 79–80, 261
Confucianism 27, 53, 75, 76, 252, 278
eternal order 6
Italian Fascism 134, 142
music 27, 205
Pound as a source of 182, 183
responsible government 143, 273
social order 12, 144, 248
will to 158, 170, 205, 226
Overholser, Willis A 330
Ovid, Metamorphoses 15
Pagany (magazine) 126, 160
paideuma 72, 73, 77–8, 117, 398n China 272
Confucianism 74–6, 278, 282
Fascist Europe 266
individual genius 140
paradise 23, 34, 51, 52, 110, 112, 113, 116, 225, 316
Paris, Pound in (2), 3–9, 28–37, 52–8 accommodation 3–4, 30–1
affaire with Olga Rudge 7, 53–4
leaves for Italy (1924) 62–3
moves to 3–4
Natalie Barney’s salon 7
nucleus of intelligence 4, 6–7
observers of 7–9
sense of liberty 28
translation work 31, 40
visitors 40–1
‘Paris Letters’ 4, 5, 28, 34, 35–6
Pasolini, Pier Paolo 161
Pasquini, Livio 212
Paterson, William 218, 328
Pelley, William Dudley 240, 242
Personae: The Collected Poems of Ezra Pound 67
Picabia, Francis xi, 4, 6
Picasso, Pablo xi, 6
Pietro Leopoldo I, in Cantos 214–15, 216, 228
Plethon, Gemistus 49
Plotinus 82
Poems: 1918–1921 31
poetic theory: on epic 79, 159
functions of poetry 6, 33, 36, 44, 51–2, 77–8, 159, 167
objective poetic self 49
tones of vowels 347nn
Poland, Anglo-French assurances to 271
Polignac, Edward de 7
Polite Essays 199, 200
political thought of Pound xi–xii, 72–6 aristocracy 100, 101–2
artists as activists 103
campaigns 105–6
combining American democracy and Italian Fascism 245, 246
Confucianism 74–6
cooperative state 73–4
dictatorship of the aristocracy 102
disempowerment 107
embrace of tyranny 105
extent of state power 73
forms of social and political life 72
indignation and disgust 99–100
individual and the state 5–6, 73–5
individual freedom and dictatorship 107
justification of Fascist dictatorship 140–1
‘Mensdorff letter’ 118–19
nature of a good state 100
paideuma 140
political views in 1938 265–6
role in a Fascist Europe 266–7
role of individual leaders 100
totalitarianism 76
tyranny of the average mind 5 see also democracy, and Pound; economics; Fascism; government; paideuma
Por, Odon 200, 201, 237
Poulenc, Francis 7
Pound, Dorothy (8, 19), 31, 37, 40, 54, 58, 119, 123–4, 129, 183, 207, 211 anti-Semitism in Italy 259, 260
complaisance over Pound’s relationship with Rudge 70
concern over finances 125
death of father 53
death of mother 267
in Egypt (1924) 68
encounters march of unemployed 126
illness 68
in Italy 46–7, 59, 61
on pre-war London 297
in Rapallo 185
relationship with Pound 8, 71
on Social Credit 251
son Omar born (not by Pound) 64, 69, 358n, 359n
Pound, Ezra (1, 2, 3, 7, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 20, 21, 23) affaire with Nancy Cunard 41, 119
American identity 297–8
appearance 7, 46, 206
appendicitis 58, 62
artist’s work his biography xi
beginning of new era 34, 41–2
character and personality 7–8
coexistence of will to create and destroy 108
on critics xi
daughter Maria/Mary Rudge born 64–7
dancing 8–9, 18
death hoax 39–40
distrust of general principles 235
education of his daughter 252–3
education of the young 194
encouragement of younger writers and editors 95–7, 187–8, 189–90
exhaustion 69
financial advice to Olivia Shakespear 126
as flawed idealist xii
health 121
ideogrammic method 167, 174, 235
indignation and disgust 99–100
individualism 70
inner conflict over children 70
kindness 63
local nature of civilization 183
moves to Italy 62–3, 64–5
new calendar 34
personal feelings, dismissal of 70, 120
pursuit of Miss Lovibond 120
relationship with Dorothy 8, 71
relationship with Olga Rudge, see Rudge, Olga
radio broadcasts 193, 201
in Saint-Raphaël 3
science 77
support of literary magazines 96–7
as talker 8
tennis 3, 7, 41, 46, 72, 206, 258, 309
travels in Italy 40, 46, 58–9
tyranny of the average mind 5
on university education 299
violence 44–5, 354n
voice of 304
walking trips in France 62
women’s limited creative role 11
work organization 193 see also America; anti-Semitism; Bel Esprit scheme; economics; form; government; individual works by; intelligence; Italy under Mussolini; money; music; order; Paris; political thought; prose;Rapallo; Rudge, Olga; usury; will
Pound, Homer Loomis (father) (16), 39, 53, 58, 61, 122–3, 199 meets granddaughter 124
retires to Rapallo 121–2
Pound, Isabel Weston (mother) 121–2, 123
Pound, Omar (son of Dorothy) 69, 71, 119, 121, 125, 129, 184, 190, 208, 252, 258–9, 267
Pound, Thaddeus C (grandfather) 61
Praz, Mario 110
Price, John 97
Profile: An Anthology Collected in MCMXXXI 126, 128–9
prose, Pound’s: economic and political propaganda 98–9, 106–7, 147, 153, 154–7, 193, 201
in Fascist Italy 103–4
proposed collected edition 127–8
prose, public utility of 34
Prosperity (magazine) 205
Proust, Marcel 7
Purcell, Henry 254
Putnam, Samuel 101
Qian, Zhaoming 225
Quinn, John (3), 28, 32, 36, 39, 40, 57
race prejudice, Pound’s attitude to 241 see also anti-Semitism
Rachewiltz, Mary de 137
Rakosi, Carl 98
Rapallo, Pound in (1, 10, 11, 21), 46, 58, 59, 64, 65 accommodation 65, 70, 357n
advantages of 117–18
his parents retire to 121–2
music concerts 184, 186–7, 189, 194–5, 210, 253–5, 270
musical seminars 204–5
visitors 67, 117, 184–6, 190
Ray, Man 58
Redman, Tim 201
Reinach, Salamon 7
Renaissance, in Cantos 32, 41–4, 47–51, 84–8