1/8/2023 0 Comments A word with the letters ycal![]() I’m still waiting to show Farrar & Rinehart the new cantos. We must be at the hub of things, the quietest but busiest spot in the wheel. Each week N.E.W is greeted with deafening silence. That’s mainly why I think you should publish the others: I feel you are being read again with a new kind of interest. Not one bloody word about your Canto 37, but I have the feeling that it was impressive. I should publish your Cantos XXXI–XLI right away, if I were you. John Farrar is most anxious to see the new Cantos, so do let me have them at your very earliest convenience. NEW YORK: FARRAR & RINEHART, 8 OCTOBER 1934 London: Faber, 2017.īeinecke Library, Ezra Pound Papers, YCAL Mss 43 Olga Rudge Papers, YCAL Mss 54. Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky. New York: New Directions, 1982.Įzra Pound and James Laughlin: Selected Letters. Ed. Pound/Ford: The Story of a Literary Friendship. Ed. Ezra Pound’s Economic Correspondence 1933-1940. London: Faber & Faber, 14 March 1935.Ĭorrespondence by Ezra Pound: (c) Mary de Rachewiltz and the Estate of Omar S. Note on the colour used in the table above: violet: companion to the canto.Įleven New Cantos XXXI–XLI. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 8 October 1934.Ī Draft of Cantos XXXI-XLI. Pound does not shrink from this necessity. Commitment to such a view obliges one to account for wars and economics or political collapse by ascribing incredible stupidity or boundless malice to the leaders of nations. The notion that great historical events can be explained by the touchstone of sound monetary principles is excessively simplistic. However, Douglas’s economic theories were not devised to explain the past his interest was in the present and the immediate future. On Douglasite grounds the process of history can only be understood when the place and function of money and credit in society is understood. Pound’s principle of historical explanation is neither Spenglerian nor Marxist it is Douglasite. “The Jefferson-Adams Letters as a Shrine and Monument” in Selected Prose, 117. The possibilities of revival, starting perhaps with a valorisation of our cultural heritage.Įzra Pound. Grant, McKinley, Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover.Ĥ. The division between the temper, thickness, richness of the mental life of Henry Adams, and Henry James, and that of say U. ![]() The period of despair, civil war as hiatus, 1870 to 1930. The period of thinning, of mental impoverishment, scission between life of the mind and life of the nation, say 1830-1860.ģ. To understand this we must have at least a rudimentary knowledge of the first fifty years of United States history AND some first hand knowledge of Italy 1922-33 or 1915-33, or still better some knowledge of 160 years of American democracy and of Italy for as long as you like.Įzra Pound. The heritage of Jefferson, Quincy Adams, old John Adams, Jackson, van Buren is HERE, NOW in the Italian peninsula at the beginning of fascist second decennio, not in Massachusetts or Delaware.
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